Transforming medication safety in Northern Ireland (November 2019)

Summary

This document sets out the Northern Ireland Department of Health's ambitions to improve medication safety in Northern Ireland, in line with the World Health Organization's Third Global Patient Safety Challenge 'Medication without Harm'. It outlines the need for safer use of medicines in Northern Ireland and highlights four ways in which the Department for Health will address these challenges:

1. Engagement with patients and the public
2. Introducing new systems and practice
3. Engagement and training of health and social care staff
4. Reducing the burden of avoidable harm from high-risk medicines by building good practice in to the supply of all medications