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Preventing parenteral nutrition rapid over-infusion in babies

10 August 2023There 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

Purchasing for safety

17 December 2025Understanding principles of purchasing for safety can support the safer use of medicines. Consideration of these principles in practice can minimise harms.

Reporting and management of medication safety events

27 February 2026High quality reporting and management of medication safety events 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

Risk assessing transcribing for administration

28 January 2025Various factors affect the risks associated with using transcribing for medicines administration.

Safe management of therapeutic drug monitoring

17 October 2024Organisations must ensure safe management systems are in place to support the management of drugs requiring therapeutic drug monitoring.

Safer use of time critical medicines programme

9 January 2026An update on the programme's progress, including the quality improvement collaborative, wider community of practice and related outputs.

Medication Safety

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