Jeremy Hunt pledges crackdown on drug errors in NHS

Up to 22,000 deaths a year linked to mistakes in dispensing medicines, researchers find

Jeremy Hunt is ordering an NHS crackdown on errors in dispensing drugs to patients, which research shows could be contributing to as many as 22,000 people dying every year.

The health and social care secretary says mistakes involving medication, both in the NHS and globally, are “causing appalling levels of harm and death that are totally avoidable”.

Continue reading... February 23, 2018 at 05:31AM