Medication including labelling

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1. Medicines Shortages: Solutions for Empty Shelves - One Year On (March 2026)

   • Pharmacist
   • Medication

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 31 March

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   • 232 views
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   • 31 March

2. I get my thyroid treatment from overseas, but I shouldn’t have to

   • Medication
   • GP
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Medication
     • GP
     • Tests / investigations

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 13 January

   • 9 comments
   • 4,374 views
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   • Comment by Anonymous
   • 1 February

3. Five moments to tackle problematic polypharmacy podcasts

   • Pharmacist
   • Medicine - Clinical pharmacology
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Pharmacist
     • Medicine - Clinical pharmacology
     • Medication

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 16 December, 2025

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   • 176 views
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   • 16 December, 2025

4. The human factors of medication safety: Wings fall off (11 December 2025)

   • Medication

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 15 December, 2025

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   • 354 views
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   • 15 December, 2025

5. Addressing medication safety inequalities across the system (31 July 2025, Specialist Pharmacy Service)

   • Medication

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 10 December, 2025

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   • 198 views
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   • 10 December, 2025

6. Getting medicines to NHS patients faster with aligned decisions with the MHRA (NICE Talks podcast)

   • Medication

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 26 November, 2025

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   • 290 views
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   • 26 November, 2025

7. Handwritten outpatient prescriptions: a risk to patient safety

   • Pharmacist
   • Pharmacy / chemist
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Pharmacist
     • Pharmacy / chemist
     • Transfer of care
     • Human factors

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 25 September, 2025

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   • 1,998 views
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   • 25 September, 2025

8. Decision support tools: valproate (NHS England)

   • Epilepsy
   • Mental health
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Epilepsy
     • Mental health
     • Medication
     • Decision making

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 15 September, 2025

   • 0 comments
   • 299 views
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   • 15 September, 2025

9. Medicine Safety: Child & adolescent care report (January 2025)

   • Medication
   • Australia
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Medication
     • Australia
     • Children and Young People

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 9 September, 2025

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   • 260 views
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   • 9 September, 2025

10. Updated valproate safety information and educational materials (June 2025)

    • Medication
    • Prescribing

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 23 July, 2025

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    • 560 views
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    • 23 July, 2025

11. Multidose nitroglycerin bottles associated with 25-fold overdose errors (15 November 2024)

    • Medication
    • Patient safety incident
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Medication
      • Patient safety incident
      • Adminstering medication
      • Coronary heart disease
      • Packaging/ labelling/ signage

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 12 March, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 596 views
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    • 12 March, 2025

12. ‘Every minute counts’: taking a national approach to time-critical medicines

    • Medication
    • Pharmacist
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      • Medication
      • Pharmacist
      • Pharmacy / chemist
      • Medicine - Clinical pharmacology

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 31 December, 2024

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    • 745 views
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    • 31 December, 2024

13. Lightning Learning: Time Critical Medications

    • Medication

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 30 December, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 622 views
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    • 30 December, 2024

14. Medicines shortages: minimising the impact on patients (a blog by Catherine Picton)

    • Pharmacist
    • Pharmacy / chemist
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      • Pharmacist
      • Pharmacy / chemist
      • System safety
      • Medication

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 16 December, 2024

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    • 1,164 views
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    • 16 December, 2024

15. Time Critical Medications - 2023-26 National Quality Improvement Programme, Year 1 (2023/24) Information Pack (Royal College of Emergency Medicine)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Medication

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 12 December, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 802 views
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    • 12 December, 2024

16. The opioid industry's use of scientific evidence to advance claims about prescription opioid safety and effectiveness (24 October 2024)

    • Medication
    • Substance / Drug abuse
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Medication
      • Substance / Drug abuse
      • Research
      • Pharma / Life sciences
      • Regulatory issue
      • Transparency

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 28 November, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 444 views
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    • 28 November, 2024

17. Medicines Shortages Policy: Solutions for empty shelves (Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 26 November 2024)

    • Medication
    • Pharmacist
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Medication
      • Pharmacist
      • System safety

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 26 November, 2024

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    • 1,121 views
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    • 26 November, 2024

18. Prescribing dilemma: balancing risk and benefit when treating sertraline sexual dysfunction (3 September 2024)

    • Medication
    • Obsessive compulsive disorder
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      • Medication
      • Obsessive compulsive disorder
      • Mental health
      • Side effects
      • Pharmacist
      • Decision making

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 3 October, 2024

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    • 346 views
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    • 3 October, 2024

19. Valproate use in men: as a precaution, men and their partners should use effective contraception (5 September 2024)

    • Medication

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 9 September, 2024

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    • 458 views
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    • 9 September, 2024

20. Less is more: the struggle to prioritise structured medication reviews (25 July 2024)

    • Medication
    • Pharmacist
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      • Medication
      • Pharmacist
      • Decision making
      • Prescribing
      • Patient engagement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 August, 2024

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    • 432 views
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    • 15 August, 2024

21. Analysis of an academic medical center’s corrective action plan in response to fatal medication error using the Institute for Safe Medication Practices’ hierarchy of effectiveness

    • Safety process
    • Training
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Safety process
      • Training
      • Human factors
      • Medication
      • Patient death
      • Organisational learning
      • Just Culture

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 August, 2024

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    • 468 views
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    • 15 August, 2024

22. Inappropriate prescribing in older people: not only a patient safety issue but an avoidable source of environmental harm (24 June 2024)

    • Medication
    • Sustainability
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Medication
      • Sustainability
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Prescribing

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 2 August, 2024

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    • 401 views
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    • 2 August, 2024

23. Estimating the economic effect of harm associated with high risk prescribing of oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in England: population based cohort and economic modelling study (24 July 2024)

    • Medication
    • Prescribing
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Medication
      • Prescribing
      • Resources / Organisational management
      • High risk groups
      • Patient harmed

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 July, 2024

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    • 563 views
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    • 29 July, 2024

24. Unraveling a recurrent wrong drug-wrong route error—Tranexamic acid in place of bupivacaine: A multistakeholder approach to addressing this important patient safety issue (June 2024)

    • Adminstering medication
    • Medication
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Adminstering medication
      • Medication
      • Human error
      • Anaesthesia

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 28 July, 2024

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    • 28 July, 2024

25. The question that will save lives: Interview with Katinka Blackford Newman, founder of Antidepressant Risks

    • Medication
    • Prescribing
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Medication
      • Prescribing
      • Side effects
      • Mental health
      • Consent
      • Transparency
      • Self harm/ suicide

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 3 July, 2024

    • 1 comment
    • 7,515 views
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    • Comment by Geraldine
    • 21 July, 2025