Medicines safety and quality
We lead national initiatives to reduce medication errors and harm from medicines. Information on these pages can help health service organisations and clinicians identify and implement strategies to improve medication safety.
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High risk medicines and systems
High risk medicines can cause serious harm if misused and must be managed safely.
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Medication charts
Medication charts help standardise medicines management and increase medicines safety.
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Medicines shortages and discontinuations
Medicine shortages and discontinuations can potentially compromise patient safety.
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National Medicines Symposium
Experts, clinicians, consumers and policymakers come together to debate medicine quality and use.
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Safer naming, labelling and packaging of medicines
Guidance for the safe management, labelling, storage and packaging of certain medicines.
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Safety notices, alerts and information
Key alerts and safety notices about high-risk medicines and medicine management.
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WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge
The WHO's third Global Patient Safety Challenge focused on medication without harm.
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Medicine Finder
Search medicines by brand name or active ingredient to find product information (PI) and consumer medicine information (CMI).