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Human Factors Episodes

Dec. 6, 2024

7.4 The Aural Apothecary Analyses! When Guidelines Go Wrong - A Medicines Safety Special with Dr Matthew Jones and Angela Carrington

Healthcare professionals rely on guidelines to help them make the right choices. But do they work? Is the way we write and use guidance in practice actually harming patients?

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April 9, 2021

Episode 9 - Angela Carrington - The World Health Organisation's Medicines Safety Challenge

Angela leads the Northern Ireland Medicines Safety Team supporting health and social care trusts in preventing avoidable medicines related harm. We discuss the World Health Organisations ‘Medicines Safety Challenge’ and the importance of Human Factors In Healthcare. We also get back onto the subject of drug pronunciation..

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