Benefits & Resources
Through CMIRPS, some of Canada’s most highly regarded organizations committed to patient safety are working together to support your efforts to enhance the safety of the medication system.
The CMIRPS partner organizations support a safe medication use system for Canadians by:
- Providing defined channels for the reporting of medication incidents by healthcare facilities, individual practitioners and consumers.
- Analysing medication incident reports and making recommendations for risk mitigation activities.
- Developing and broadly disseminating information on preventative measures and best practices for safe medication use, including prescribing, order communication, product labelling, packaging and nomenclature, compounding, dispensing, distribution, administration, and monitoring.
- Working with stakeholders in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry to address issues related to the naming, packaging and labelling of marketed products in Canada.
Quick Facts:
- For Practitioners
- For Patients and Consumers
- For National Organizations
- For General Use
- For Healthcare Facilities
Learn from the results of analyses of incidents reported through all CMIRPS reporting programs:
- ISMP Canada Safety Bulletins and Alerts
- Find consumer-focused newsletters, alerts and medication safety resources www.SafeMedicationUse.ca.
- Visit www.globalpatientsafetyalerts.com to find more than 1,000 alerts and advisories and more than 4,500 recommendations.
- For more information on Health Canada responsibilities and activities with respect to health products and drugs, please visit the Health Canada website.