There are some big medicines safety issues that never seem to go away. They affect thousands if not millions of people across the nation and commonly cause severe harm or early death. Here we explore a few examples and see how collaboration and quality improvement can have an impact and save lives.

Learning Outcomes

• Appreciate the place of quality improvement methods to address complex medicines safety issues.
• Describe an approach to organising complex, whole system, collaboration to improve medication safety.
• Understand the power of communities to offer biopsychosocial alternatives to medication as part of a whole system approach.