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Research commissioned by Pharmacy Voice reveals that 99.9 per cent of items are dispensed without error in community pharmacies. The research, which quantified dispensing errors from nine of the 10 largest multiple community pharmacies over 12 months, found that of the 6,415 pharmacies involved, more than 200 did not report a single error during the study period, while an average of 1.44 incidents occurred for every 100,000 items supplied.

Rob Darracott, chief executive of Pharmacy Voice, said: €The results of our audit confirm the commitment all community pharmacy teams have to patient safety, which is reflected in the very low levels of dispensing incidents.€