Professor and Director of the Stoneygate Centre for Excellence in Empathic Healthcare, University of Leicester Patients’ lives are being put at risk by poor communication from healthcare professionals ...

A Kent hospitals trust has paid out more in compensation for medication blunders than any other in England, new data suggests. Since 2019, East Kent Hospitals - which runs the Kent and Canterbury ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

Liverpool NHS Trust has paid out more than £2m in compensation for clinical negligence claims involving medication errors in the last five years. It is the third-highest amount paid out of any other ...

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Findings indicate that such software can dramatically improve patient safety during surgery. A new study by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General ...

Almost 1 in 4 adults in England have found inaccuracies or missing information in their medical records, new research has shown. The findings come from a nationally representative poll carried out by ...

Although much has been published on medication prescribing errors, little information is available regarding the frequency of medication prescribing errors with antiretroviral agents in the ...

Medication Errors are an adverse event that occurs too often in ambulatory surgery centers, says W. Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, director of accreditation and survey readiness, clinical services department, ...