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ACC PATIENT SAFETY AWARD
The Treatment Safety Team at ACC is dedicated to supporting patient safety and reducing the incidence and severity of treatment injuries in New Zealand. It is exciting to see our colleagues in primary care sharing our priorities and working hard to improve safety for their patients. Congratulations to all of those who took part and were recognised at the awards
– Nick Kendall, manager Treatment Safety, ACC
In this article, Sue Frankland looks at the global problem of wastage of medications, including causes such as overprescribing and non-adherence. She also presents information from her master’s dissertation on how people understand, and respond to, medication expiration dates
Why recognising the signs of dehydration is important...
