The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland Report Poor Figures Regarding Incident Management
The PSI recently published the results from their 2015 inspections which were conducted across 144 pharmacies nationwide. The results showed that only 65% of pharmacies are compliant with error reporting and incident management requirements. This indicates that almost two in five pharmacies have an absence of a culture of recording errors and do not have an effective quality management system in place. With such poor statistics, it begs the question: how can we decrease the number of medication errors if pharmacies are failing to flag these errors internally? The recording and review of…Read more …