The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has released research showing an "alarming" number of medication-related errors as part of a push for a change in Australian laws that would require pharmacists to report mistakes they've made when dispensing medicine.
The research found that medication errors have been alarmingly common including 250,000 hospital admissions annually as a result of medication-related problems.
Melissa Sheldrick, is pushing for the law change after a pharmacy made an error in her eight year old son’s medication, causing his death, and hopes that the law will change to prevent similar cases in the future.