New HIQA report into medication usage in Hospitals
A new report by HIQA has found that errors in the process of prescribing, dispensing, administering and monitoring medication usage, is one of the major causes of patient harm in hospital.
The health watchdog has carried out is first ever medication safety check at seven acute hospitals around the country including Bantry General in Cork.
The announced visits found that while all hospitals could improve, some were doing well when it came to monitoring the risk associated with taking medicines.
HIQA claims a Drugs and Therapeutics Committee is the best way to oversee that patients are being given the right amount of the right drugs.
Six per cent of hospital discharge prescriptions were found to have a potentially severe medication prescribing error.
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