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Clinical considerations for patients prescribed clozapine

28 June 2024Healthcare professionals in all settings who interact with patients prescribed clozapine should be aware of clinical considerations related to its use.

Multiple Use of Injectable Medicines in Clinical Areas V 02 February 2020

19 December 2019This document is intended for multi-professional clinical practitioners to use as a reference and source of information for the prescribing, reconstituting or administering injectable medicines.…

Medication Safety Update

21 June 2024A resource collating the latest medication safety communications and publications to inform, support and inspire medication safety improvements.

Using potassium permanganate for skin conditions or wound care

4 April 2025Potassium permanganate is a chemical product. We review the evidence for using it in wound care and highlight the risk of severe harm associated with wrong use.

Accessing resources for patients on high risk medicines

19 December 2022A number of resources are available to support the safe use of high-risk medicines. Healthcare professionals should ensure they are available for their patients

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.

Learning from medication incidents and harms

15 December 2022Practical guidance to ensure opportunities to learn from local intelligence, including patient harm are translated into shared local and national learning

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

Promoting medication incident reporting

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

Managing the risks of using liquid oral phenobarbital

2 November 2023Minimising the risk of confusion between phenobarbital liquid formulations and awareness of alcohol content may prevent harms.