HA releases Medication Safety Bulletin

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:

     The Hospital Authority (HA) today (May 25) published the biannual Medication Safety Bulletin (MSB). This issue reports on the Annual Medication Safety Forum, entitled "Near Miss Management – Reporting, sharing and learning" held in December 2017. The Forum is one of the HA's key initiatives to promote risk management among healthcare professionals in public hospitals.

     The latest issue also deliberates on the risks of and improvements in handling "look-alike sound-alike" medications, and features how the Kowloon Central Cluster shared information on and learned from near-miss incidents.

     The publication has already been posted on the web to share the contents with healthcare professionals. Members of the public are also welcome to browse it via the following link www.ha.org.hk/msb. The MSB is published every six months, on the last Fridays of May and November. The next issue will be published on November 30.