Economics of medication safety

Impact: Health and wellbeing, Policy

Public summary

1. Elliott RA, Putman K, Franklin M, Annemans L, Verhaeghe N, Eden M, Hayre J, Rodgers S, Sheikh A, Avery AJ. Cost effectiveness of a pharmacist-led IT-based intervention with simple feedback in reducing rates of clinically important errors in medicines management in general practices (PINCER) Pharmacoeconomics 2014; June; 32:573-590. DOI: 10.1007/s40273-014-0148-8. PMID: 24639038
2. Elliott RA, Camacho E, Jankovic D, Sculpher MJ, Faria R. Economic analysis of the prevalence and clinical and economic burden of medication error in England. BMJ Quality & Safety. 2021;30:96-105. dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2019-010206
3. Camacho EM, Gavan S, Keers RN, Chuter A, Elliott RA*. Estimating the impact on patient safety of enabling the digital transfer of patients’ prescription information in the English NHS. BMJ Quality & Safety 2024: bmjqs-2023-016675. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2023-01667


Budget impact assessment for Data (Use and Access Bill)
Title: Data (Use and Access) Bill
IA number: DSIT001(FIA)-24-DTT
RPC reference number: RPC-DSIT-5358(1)
Lead department or agency: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Other departments or agencies: Department for Business and Trade, Home Office, Digital
Cabinet Office, Department of Health and Social Care, HM Treasury, Department for Energy
Security and Net Zero, The Information Commissioner’s Office
Date: 23 October 2024
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/673cc6b97524e1b17c494efe/Data_use_and_access_bill_impact_assessment.pdf
interoperability and Errors paper cited on page 97

The NHS Patient Safety Strategy: Safer culture, safer systems, safer patients, July 2019
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/190708_Patient_Safety_Strategy_for_website_v4.pdf
Errors paper cited in this report

World Health Organization. (‎2023)‎. Medication without harm: policy brief. World Health Organization. https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/376212. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376212/9789240062764-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Errors paper and Lancet paper (2012) cited in this report

World Health Organization. (‎2023)‎. Global burden of preventable medication-related harm in health care: a systematic review. World Health Organization. License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/376203
https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/376203/9789240088887-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Errors paper cited in this report

de Bienassis, K. et al. (2022), “The economics of medication safety: Improving medication safety through collective, real-time learning”, OECD Health Working Papers, No. 147, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/9a933261-en.
Errors paper cited in this report

Slawomirski, L. and N. Klazinga (2022), “The economics of patient safety: From analysis to action”, OECD Health Working Papers, No. 145, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/761f2da8-en.
Errors paper and PINCER economic evaluation cited in this report

The Topol Review: Preparing the healthcare workforce to deliver the digital future
An independent report on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. February 2019
https://topol.hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/HEE-Topol-Review-2019.pdf
Errors paper cited in this report

House of Commons, Health and Social Care Committee Pharmacy
Third Report of Session 2023–24
Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/45156/documents/223614/default/
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5804/cmselect/cmhealth/140/report.html
Errors paper cited in this report

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and Neonatal and Paediatric Pharmacy Group Joint Standing Committee on Medicines Clinical Practice Guideline Medication safety: Best practice for effective paediatric ward rounds
RCPCH/NPPG Joint Standing Committee on Medicines, December 2023
https://www.rcpch.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2024-03/Medication_safety_clinical-guide-2023-6.pdf
Errors paper cited in this report

European Collaborative Action on Medication Errors and Traceability (ECAMET)
WHITE PAPER: Call to Action developed by the ECAMET Alliance on The Urgent Need to Reduce Medication Errors in Hospitals to Prevent Patient and Second Victim Harm
March 2022
https://ecamet.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/ECAMET-White-Paper-Call-to-Action-March-2022-v1.pdf
Errors paper cited in this report

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-06/on_the_radar_issue_468.docx&ved=2ahUKEwjQwsTC9qWLAxVeZ0EAHbIqEf44KBAWegQIJBAB&usg=AOvVaw0xuui-v2WWhDUKR0rxZzFX
Errors paper cited in this report
Category of impactHealth and wellbeing, Policy