Review of Medication Incident Reports | Potassium chloride concentrated solutions | Risk of confusion between non-lipid and lipid formulations of cytarabine | Labelling and packaging of oral medicines | Implementing NPSA Safe Medication Practice Guidance | Fire hazard with paraffin products (video) |
Safety in doses: improving the use of medicines in the NHS | Methotrexate | Risk of confusion between non-lipid and lipid formulations of injectable amphotericin | Labelling and packaging of injectable medicines | | BMJ e-learning module on the safe use of injectable medicines; a supporting tool for Patient Safety Alert 20: Injectable medicines (e-learning module) |
| Ensuring safer practice with repevax and revaxis vaccines | Fire hazard with paraffin based skin products on dressings and clothing | The dispensing environment | |
| Improving compliance with oral methotrexate guidelines | Risks of incorrect dosing of oral anti-cancer medicines | Dispensed medicines | | BMJ e-learning module on reducing the risk of hyponatraemia when administering intravenous fluids to children |
| Ensuring safer practice with high dose ampoules of morphine and diamorphine injections | Risks with intravenous heparin flush solutions | Infusion devices (in preparation) | |
| Actions that can make anticoagulant therapy safer | Reducing dosing errors with opioid medicines | Single use medication devices | |
| Promoting safer use of injectable medicines | Problems with infusions and sampling from arterial lines | | | BMJ e-learning module on the safe use of anticoagulant therapy; a supporting tool for Patient Safety Alert 19: anticoagulant therapy (e-learning module) |
| Promoting the safe measurement and administration of liquid medicines via oral and other enteral routes | Using vinca alkaloid minibags (adult/adolescent units) | | |
| Safer practice with epidural injections and infusions | Risks of omitting Hib when administering Infanrix-IPV+Hib | | | Safer Connectors Project (ongoing and forthcoming) |
| Reducing the risk of hyponatraemia when administering intravenous fluids to children | Reducing risk of overdose with midazolam injection in adults | | | |