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A report by the Health and Disability Commissioner has emphasised the importance of checking dispensed medication, after a pharmacist incorrectly dispensed Tegretol instead of Trental, landing a patient in hospital 

A pharmacist has been ordered to complete palliative care best practice training and write a letter of apology after making several mistakes when dispensing a terminally ill woman’s pain medication

A pharmacy, a GP and a disability service provider have been ordered to review their procedures and apologise after an incorrect prescription resulted in the anti-seizure medication midazolam being incorrectly administered to a disabled patient

A complementary health practitioner has been ordered to apologise after he advised a client to consider stopping taking antidepressants, despite not having any relevant qualification or expertise

A pharmacist has been ordered to write a letter of apology after he mistakenly dispensed the wrong dose of methadone to a patient

A nurse has apologised after accidentally giving a 12-year-old patient Boostrix instead of Gardasil  

The Pharmacy Council says an incident where a baby was hospitalised after a Hawke’s Bay pharmacy dispensed the wrong medication will end up before the Health and Disability Commissioner

A pharmacist says he interpreted a GP’s prescription wrongly, causing him to dispense the incorrect strength of Sinemet to an older patient last year