Prescription Charts

Helping to reduce prescribing errors by developing standards for the design of hospital in-patient prescription charts

The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges together with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) and Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has produced a report on standards for the design of hospital in-patient prescription charts. The Academy wishes to promote these standards throughout the NHS.

The standards were developed by an inter-professional group of doctors, pharmacists and nurses drawn from the medical Royal Colleges, the RPS and the RCN, who reviewed hospital prescription charts from a variety of sources, examined the scientific publications in the area and consulted widely with colleagues in their own organisations and in the NHS using an extensive iterative approach before finalising the recommendations outlined in the report.

Download introductory letter from Professor Sir Neil Douglas (12/09/2011)

For full report and appendices visit:

http://www.aomrc.org.uk/projects/standards-for-in-patient-prescription-charts.html