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Insufficient information on medicines
21 May 2010
News > Medicines information
The Care Quality Commission has published the results of its 2009 NHS Inpatient Survey covering 162 hospital trusts in England and 69,000 NHS hospital inpatients. The survey showed improvements in cleanliness and a decline in mixed-sex accommodation, but there was significant room for improvement around the information given to people about medicines.
The proportion of patients who said they were not given enough information about the purpose of medicine they were given to take home has steadily increased, from 7% in 2002 to 8% in 2008 and 9% in 2009. In 2009, 45% of patients said they had not been given enough information about potential side effects of medication, up from 44% in 2008 and 2002. The Commission urges NHS to tackle lack of information about medicines.
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