Sally-Anne Francis

2 months ago | pharmaceutical-journal.com | Sally-Anne Francis |Sarah Yardley

Medicines management is an essential part of the complex activities required to deliver palliative care across organisations and locations, within and beyond the NHS. Good palliative care is only achieved when patients get maximum benefit and minimum harm from symptom control medication.

Oct 23, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Amy Brown |Sarah J Yardley |Ben Bowers |Sally-Anne Francis

What is already known about the topic? •The third World Health Organization Global Patient Safety Challenge ‘Medication without harm’, emphasises the need for improved infrastructure through better reporting practices and cross-organisational learning from adverse events and near misses. •Medication is implicated in one-fifth of serious palliative care patient safety incidents, with approximately 25% of these incidents involving continuous subcutaneous infusions.