Medication errors: 112 errors reported to the FAMHP since 2016
Source: FAMHP
December 11, 2020
The FAMHP Medication errors working group has received 112 notifications of proven or potential errors since 2016. Thanks to these notifications, corrective or preventive measures were put in place, in collaboration with the pharmaceutical industry.
The Agency encourages healthcare professionals and patients to report any actual or potential medication error.
The FAMHP set up the Medication errors working group in 2016 in order to improve the safety of marketed medicinal products. The members of this working group come from the different directorates general of the FAMHP, analyse and evaluate the reports of medication errors. The reports are mainly received from frontline healthcare professionals, in particular via the pharmacovigilance contact points in hospitals.