Patient safety: are we maximizing the potential of the pharmacist’s role?

In the UK the past 5 years has seen the real emergence of an open, honest culture in healthcare and medical practice which recognizes that healthcare can cause harm to patients. This year has seen the launch of the National Patient Safety campaign which builds on the NHS Adverse Drug Event Collaborative and the Institute of Health Improvement Safer Patients Initiative.[1] The Patient Safety First campaign is being developed in response to the worldwide issue of improvin