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The NHS has graded drug errors and adverse reactions, as follows:

1 Medication errors that do not result in patient harm, i.e. near misses (example: a dose of 500 mg amoxycillin is prepared instead of 250 mg, but corrected before reaching the patient).

2 Medication errors that result in patient harm (example: giving an antibiotic to a patient with a known allergy to that drug).

3 An adverse drug reaction that is not the result of a medication error (example: giving antibiotics to a patient with no previous history of drug reactions, but who then reacts: this is the only non‐preventable type of mistake).