England to leverage medication safety dashboard detect and prevent medication errors

This new system includes indicators to show whether a prescription may have contributed to a patient being admitted to hospital. The indicators will link prescribing data in primary care to hospital admissions in a medication dashboard, allowing the NHS to monitor and understand errors, with the aim of preventing them. The first indicators will focus on how different medication contribute to hospital admissions with gastro-intestinal bleeding. The prgram will cover more medication and conditions later in the year. Research has highlighted the impact of medication errors, with an estimated 237 million taking place every year in England.