A new study commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care has revealed that 237 million medication errors are estimated to be occurring within the UK’s healthcare system each years.
Within these figures, it is predicted that 700 deaths are directly as a result to medication errors and a potential 22,300 further deaths could be as a result of related mistakes.
Errors covered by the study included the wrong medications being given to patients, incorrect doses being delivered or a delay in medication being received.
