Drug errors cause appalling harm and deaths,
Showing results for GPs, pharmacists, hospitals and care homes may be making 237 million errors a year Search instead for GPs, pharmacists, hospitals and care homes may be making 237 million errors a yea GPs, pharmacists, hospitals and care homes may be making 237 million errors a year - the equivalent of one mistake made for every five drugs handed out. The study said most caused no problems, but in more than a quarter of cases the mistakes could have caused harm. One of the people who suffered from a drug error was Catherine Young's mother, Irene. She was living in a care home and was aged 92 when she was given a host of wrong drugs for several weeks after her prescription was mixed up with another patient's. It meant she stopped getting steroids for polymyalgia rheumatica, which causes pain, stiffness and inflammation in the muscles around the shoulder, neck and hips. This caused her to go into withdrawal, while she developed irritation around her eyes because she h
