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A patient safety lead has called for timely onward reporting of incidents to community pharmacy to allow the sector to learn from mistakes, following a case of inadvertent dispensing.
Janice Perkins, chair of the Community Pharmacy Patient Safety Group (CPPSG), told C+D yesterday (August 5) that the group is making these calls following its discussion of a coroner’s report to prevent future deaths.
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