Safety SCRIPT: A World Health Organization initiative related portfolio

1st June 2021

This month sees the launch of our newest programme, ‘SCRIPT Safety’. The programme consists of a selection of existing SCRIPT modules that align with the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge ‘Medication Without Harm’ and NHS Improvement’s medicines safety priority themes: high risk drugs; high-risk parts of the medicines use process and patients with the highest vulnerabilities.

Visit https://www.safeprescriber.org/script-safety/ to sign up and access for free with an NHS.uk or NHS.net address.

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