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Preventing parenteral nutrition rapid over-infusion in babies

28 October 2022There is a risk of severe harm or death if PN is unintentionally infused too rapidly in babies. Healthcare professionals need to ensure safe practice.

Product Risk Assessment Tools

15 March 2016Product risk assessment tools to support NHS organisations to identify risk resultant from medicinal product presentation.

Promoting medication incident reporting

15 December 2022Increased medication incident reporting provides greater opportunities for learning and improving medication safety

Quality Improvement Alert - Cold Chain Management of COVID-19 Vaccines

19 May 2021An SPS quality improvement alert to highlight the requirements for safe and effective cold storage of COVID-19 vaccines

Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee Antidotes Advisory Statement

17 June 2019The RMOC recommendation is in the process of being revised to reflect the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)/National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) 2021 updated…

Reporting and management of medication incidents and harms

15 December 2022High quality reporting and management of incidents and harms ensures opportunities for learning and improving medication safety

Resources to support learning from medication incidents and harms

15 December 2022Organisations should utilise resources to effectively drive improvement based on the learning from incidents, concerns, disputes and claims

Responding to medication safety alerts and notifications

15 December 2022Healthcare professionals responsible for medication safety in their organisation must deliver an appropriate response to safety alerts

Reversing an adult opioid overdose with naloxone in the medical setting

18 October 2022A patient safety alert highlighted the risks of giving inappropriate doses of naloxone. This page guides on using appropriate intravenous doses.

Risk assessing transcribing for administration

22 February 2022Various factors affect the risks associated with using transcribing for medicines administration.