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Insulin is often used in the management of hyperglycaemia but prescribing and management errors are common. A UK audit revealed 3881 wrong dose incidents and six deaths over six years (National Patient Safety Agency 2010, NPSA). The NPSA and NHS Diabetes launched a tri‐phase education initiative in June 2010, aimed at reducing error and including rapid response reports sent to all hospital and community...
NHS Diabetes, along with clinical colleagues, established a ‘Safe Use of Insulin’ e‐learning course in response to an alert from the National Patient Safety Agency and supporting data from the National Diabetes Inpatient Audit which demonstrated a worrying scale of insulin errors for in‐patients with diabetes in England. The e‐learning course has been offered freely to all health care professionals...
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