National Prescribing Centre tips for GPs
The National Prescribing Centre (NPC) has published Top Tips for GPs – Strategies for safer prescribing.
Written for the NPC by Professor Tony Avery from the University of Nottingham Medical School it discusses medication errors and patient harm in primary care, including:
- Which patients are most at risk from medication errors
- The drugs most commonly associated with preventable adverse events
- The underlying causes of medication errors and how can these be prevented
Click the link below to download the tips:
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