WHO launched a global initiative to reduce severe, avoidable medication-associated harm in all countries by 50% over the next 5 years. The Global Patient Safety Challenge The Global Patient Safety Challenge on Medication Safety aims to address the weaknesses in health systems that lead to medication errors and the severe harm that results.
It lays out ways to improve the way medicines are prescribed, distributed and consumed, and increase awareness among patients about the risks associated with the improper use of medication. The actions planned in the Challenge will be focused on four areas: patients and the public health care professionals medicines as products systems and practices of medication WHO aims to provide guidance and develop strategies, plans, and tools to ensure that the medication process has the safety of patients at its core, in all health care facilities Source :…
