Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Insulin is a high-risk medicine that was involved in just under 20% of all medication safety events causing harm following a local audit that reviewed data over a 2.5 year period. Insulin was one of the only licensed medicine remaining that was managed via a paper process in inpatient areas at St James’s Hospital as it was excluded from the initial implementation of electronic medicines management processes due to the significant amount of additional design fe...