FOI Request
- Disclosure ID
- FOI/00913
- Request Date
- April 19, 2016
- Subject
- Medication Errors
- Description
I would be grateful if you could let me have the following information, for two separate years: 2014 and 2015.
- The number of medication errors recorded by the Trust for each of these two years.
- The number of these incidents for each of these two years that were recorded as causing:
- no harm
- low harm
- moderate harm
- severe harm
- death
- The number of errors for each of these two years attributed to:
- prescribing error
- dispensing error or
- any other cause
- The number of errors for each of these two years attributed to:
- the prescribing or dispensing of the wrong dose, or
- the prescribing or dispensing of the wrong medicine.
- The number of incidents for each of these two yearsin which the Trust has paid financial compensation to patients or relatives of patients in respect of medication errors, and the total paid in compensation for each of these two years in respect of medication errors.
- Finally, does the Trust have a named medication safety officer, and when was this post established and filled?
- Response
2014 2015 Medication Errors 1,416 1,367 2014 2015 No Harm 393 430 Low Harm 1,000 902 Moderate Harm 23 17 Severe Harm 0 0 Death 0 0 2014 2015 Prescribing Error 327 278 Dispensing Error 226 246 Other causes 1169 1015 2014 2015 Prescribing or dispensing of the wrong dose 67 83 Prescribing or dispensing of the wrong medicine 38 40 - The NHS Litigation Authority pays compensation, the Trust do not. You can contact them thru their website http://www.nhsla.com/OtherServices/Pages/Home.aspx.
- It was established and filled in 2014.