Around half of the medication errors that occur in the hospitals are estimated to occur on admission or discharge and around 30% of these errors have the potential to cause patient harm. These errors can occur either when obtaining the patient’s medication history (e.g. on admission to hospital), when recording the medicines in the medication chart, or when prescribing medicines on admission, on transfer to another ward and at discharge according to the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Al Masarra Hospital, the Pharmacy department developed this document to keep up an excellence and establish standards for improving the overall patient health outcomes and prevent further drug related problems especially in the field of psychiatric care management.