Checks on hospital prescriptions issued across England have found that almost one in ten contained mistakes.

Only very few errors would have caused serious harm despite this medical negligence claims the General Medical Council (GMC) who commissioned the study.

The research team inspected 124,260 prescriptions from 19 hospitals and found that just short of 9% contained mistakes, but dispelled the myth that inexperienced doctors were responsible for the majority of errors.

Of the 11,077 errors found, around 2% contained mistakes that could have caused serious harm to the patient, but it was found that most mistakes are discovered and corrected before the prescription reaches the patient by senior doctors, nurses and in particular pharmacists.

The study raised concerns that there is too much reliance on mistakes being spotted where doctors have shown medical negligence in writing incorrect prescriptions.

Many in the medical profession believe that different processes for prescribing prescriptions across hospitals, varying from hand written forms to electronic forms can cause confusion, with calls for a standard form across all hospitals being made so medical staff are all familiar with the same standard form.

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