The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has published five alert notices to improve medication safety and reduce the number of medication errors in the NHS. The five high risk notices are:
- anticoagulant medicines;
- liquid medicines administered via oral and other enteral routes;
- injectable medicines;
- epidural injections and infusions;
- paediatric intravenous infusions.
Included in the alert notices are a range of practical tools and resources to support healthcare professionals and NHS organisations with implementation. This work forms the Safe Medication Practice Work Programme for 2007-8, a joint initiative with the Department of Health and the Welsh Assembly Government. (NPSA - news)