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Pregnancy & baby care, Prescribing, Medication safety,

Update from the Department of Health & Social Care

The Department of Health & Social Care share resources

23 Sep 2025 , 1 Min Article

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Rethinking co-drug names could prevent errors

Standardised nomenclature for combination formulations could prevent errors, new research suggests.

16 Dec 2024 , 2 Min Article

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MHRA launches Yellow Card ‘biobank’ to learn how genes affect medicines safety

Allopurinol skin reactions will be first focus for voluntary biobank pilot

25 May 2023 , 1 Min Article

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MHRA highlights Nordic pregabalin risk study

Slightly higher risk of major congenital malformations when pregabalin is taken in pregnancy.

21 Apr 2022 , 1 Min Article

Medication safety,

MHRA highlights Nordic pregabalin risk study

Slightly higher risk of major congenital malformations when pregabalin is taken in pregnancy.

21 Apr 2022 , 1 Min Article

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Lloyds superintendent to head up patient safety group

Victoria Steele is the new chair of the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group.

26 Aug 2021 , 1 Min Article

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Patient safety: part eight

The eighth and final module in this series looks at the second victim phenomenon, in conjunction with CPPE.

14 Apr 2021 , 2 Min Module

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Patient safety: part seven

Part seven of this CPPE series looks at different tools that can be used to improve patient safety.

10 Mar 2021 , 5 Min Module

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Patient safety: part six

Part six of this series looks at the effectivness of huddles with regards to improving patients saftey.

08 Feb 2021 , 3 Min Module

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Patient safety: part five

Part five of this series looks at patient involvement and safety campigns.

12 Jan 2021 , 3 Min Module

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Patient safety: part four

The fourth module in this series looks at patient safety, reporting and analysis.

10 Dec 2020 , 6 Min Module

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Patient safety: part three

Part three of this series provides an understanding of safety culture and some of the models that influence it.

18 Nov 2020 , 4 Min Module

Medication safety, Sustainability,

Greener schemes in pharmacy

From blister packs to PPE, the range of pharmacy items that can now be recycled is growing all the time.

12 Nov 2020 , 4 Min Article

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Patient safety: part two

Part two of patient safety considers the basic principles of the London Protocol and wider causes of patient safety incidents.

13 Oct 2020 , 4 Min Module

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Patient safety: part one

This CPPE module considers patient safety and helps pharmacy technicians understand what is meant by a safety culture.

11 Sep 2020 , 3 Min Module

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Deprescribing

This module provides an overview of managing inappropriate polypharmacy.

26 May 2020 , 3 Min Module

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