NPSA Warnings

Ashtons produces a newsletter every quarter in January, April, July and October, which looks at a variety of prominent clinical topics and also any new products or services Ashtons are [...]

Ashtons has produced an audit tool to measure compliance with relevant NPSA alerts from the past 2 years. The NPSA provides healthcare organisations with safety alerts which must be actioned [...]

  Problems with insulin therapy are a common cause of serious patient safety issues which include fatalities. Following a review by the NPSA, 26% of incidents were due to the administration [...]

The NPSA has issued a warning to mental health inpatient units following a number of reported self-harm incidents involving plastic bags which have been used over the head in attempts to [...]

The NPSA have issued updated safety guidance relating to the positioning of NG tubes. For further information: http://www.nrls.npsa.nhs.uk/resources/type/alerts/?entryid45=129640   Photo by [...]

The National Patient safety Agency (NPSA) issues warnings and alerts to improve the safety of patients by reducing risk. Half of NHS trusts in England (203 trusts) have failed to comply with at [...]

A loading dose is an initial large dose of medication, given for a short period, before a lower maintenance dose is continued. Errors have resulted in serious harm including fatalities and the [...]