UK National Patient Safety Agency

UK National Patient Safety Agency. A risk matrix for risk managers. London UK National Patient Safety Agency 2008. 

The UK national patient safety agency reporting and learning system... 

UK National Patient Safety Agency. Design for patient safety A guide to tbe design of electronic infusion devices (2010)... 

National Patient Safety Agency. Design for patient safety. Guidelines for safe on-screen display of medication information. NHS Connecting For Health. 2010. London, UK. http //www. nrls.npsa.nhs.uk/resources/collections/design-for-patient-safety/ entryid45=66713. 

Figure 12.1 Distinguishing drug names through good design (Reproduced with permission of National Patient Safety Agency www.npsa.nhs.uk).

National Patient Safety Agency. 2009. Patient Safety Alert WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. Issned 26 January 2009. Available at http //www.nrls.npsa.nhs.uk/ resources/ entryid45=59860 (last accessed on 16 April 2014). 

National Patient Safety Agency, Press Release, National Health Service, London, UK, 2005. 

National Patient Safety Agency (NPS A) (2(X)8) Promoting safer use of injectable medicines. Patient safety alert 20. htq> //www.nrls. npsa.nhs.uk... 

For substances that are standardised biologically, biological units are allowed. According to the international system (SI) only the International Unit may be abbreviated (lU). All other units should be written in fuU. In the UK the National Patient Safety Agency has recommended that even lU is not used but should be written out in full [11]. This was due to a number of deaths that have occurred owing to errors with abbreviations of (international) units. Also in other countries errors in dosing were discovered, due to lack of clarity in the necessary calculations from mg to USP units [12]. 

Insulin safety guidance (Rapid response report). National Patient Safety Agency London 2010. http //www.npsa.nhs.uk/corporate/ news/the-national-patient-safety-agency-npsa-has-today-issued-guidance-for-all-nhs-organisations-across-england-and-wales-aimed-at-re/. Accessed 11 Mar 2013... 

Drug overdose Between November 2004 and November 2008, UK health-care staff reported 498 dosing errors for midazolam to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) there were three deaths [35 ]. The following problems were reported ... 

The National Patient Safety Agency Medical Error, a Guide for Junior Doctors, available at www.nrls.npsa.nhs.uk/juniordoctors/... 

This agency was created in July 2001 in the United Kingdom to improve patient safety within the framework of the UK National Health Service (NHS) by encouraging voluntary reporting of medical-related errors, performing analysis, and initiating appropriate preventive measures. Since 2005, the NPSA has also been responsible for the following items [7] ... 

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