Prescriptions: Safety

(asked on 20th February 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many prescription errors by NHS trusts were reported to the Learn from patient safety events service in 2023; and how many and what proportion of those errors were graded as causing (a) no harm, (b) low harm, (c) moderate harm, (d) severe harm and (e) death.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 1st March 2024

We have been informed by NHS England that this data has not been validated, and cannot be provided at this time.

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