Medicines

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  This is a summary of independent research funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre; the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (Award no. 242, 2014/15); and the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Clinician Scientist Award “Improving the management of long term conditions with the clinical use of patient reported outcome measures in Primary Care” (NIHR/CS/010/024). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR or the Department of Health.
  
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Risks and potential harms for patients

This topic covers people's experiences of 'patient safety'. Patient safety is defined as the prevention or avoidance of injuries or accidents resulting from health care.*...

Different views on prescribed medicines

The people we interviewed expressed a range of views about medicines in general and specific treatment in particular. In common with what is known from...