Pharmapod
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21st February 2025
Report That Good Catch! Why Every Near-Miss Matters in Pharmacy Practice
Pharmacists and pharmacy workers play a crucial role in safeguarding patient health, ensuring medications are dispensed accurately, and preventing errors. Among these efforts, one action often doesn’t get the recognition it deserves — reporting good catches.
Good catch reporting is just as vital as reporting medication errors themselves. It provides an invaluable opportunity to improve medication safety, identify patterns, and prevent issues before they happen. But far too many good catches go unnoticed, unacknowledged, and unreported.