Design for patient safety

The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has published two new additions to the Design for Patient Safety series of booklets to help reduce the number of errors made when medicines are dispensed and used. Design for patient safety: a guide to the design of dispensed medicines provides an overview of safe systems and how medicines are used in practice. It includes examples of how professionals working in dispensaries can put this into practice. Design for patient safety: a guide to the design of the dispensing environment is for organisations, managers and healthcare workers involved in dispensing medicines. The resource aims to help introduce new initiatives to further minimise harms from medicines. (NPSA - news)