Reducing Medication Errors in Hospitals National Summit 2018

This timely Summit which takes place during the WHO 3rd Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm aims to bring together clinicians & managers and medication safety officers and leads to understand current national developments and to debate and discuss key issues they are facing in improving medication safety and reducing medication errors in hospitals. Following International and National Update sessions - the conference will focus on effective reporting of medication incidents - managing a medication incident investigation and ensuring change occurs - supporting staff & reducing medication errors in practice / developing a medication error reduction programme / using medication safety huddles / learning from patients and focusing on high risk drugs. There will also be focus on reducing medication errors through electronic prescribing.