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East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) is delivering the Medicines Safety Improvement Programme (MedSIP), led by NHS England.
MedSIP aims to reduce severe avoidable medication-related harm by focusing on high-risk drugs and avoidable situations, and vulnerable patients. This aim aligns with the World Health Organisation’s third Global Patient Safety Challenge ‘Medication Without Harm', which was launched in 2017.
The use of medicines is the most widely used intervention in healthcare and can bring significant health benefits, but medicines also have the potential to cause problems.
Research has identified that:
Improving medicines safety, and optimising the learning from medication incidents and excellence reduces the risk of avoidable harm from medicines.
Find out about our wider medicines portfolio here.
Find out about the support we are currently offering, as part of the MedSIP programme, to help systems to reduce harm from psychotropic medicines.
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Access resources, developed as part of the MedSIP programme, to help improve the management of non-cancer pain by reducing harm from opioids. (Resources are accurate as of March 2025).
Be part of the Medicines Safety Improvement Programme Future NHS workspace for access to the latest resources here.
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Electronic Repeat Dispensing (eRD) is a way of supporting efficiency within GP practices and community pharmacies, whilst also creating benefits for the patient. Our work to support the wider deployment of eRD was prompted by the pandemic, to reduce footfall into GP practices and pharmacies, create efficiencies and provide an easily accessible supply of medication for patients. Find more and access eRD resources here.
A useful resource for healthcare professionals and parents to understand medicines for children’s conditions, as medicines use can differ for children. The website hosts general resources on how to give children tablets, rather than more expensive liquid versions of medications. View the medicines for children website.
Wessex Academic Health Science Network has produced a set of films around medicines management which includes electronic repeat dispensing, managing medicines from hospital to home and medicine review. View the Meet Mo videos.
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