Hunt to crack down on NHS drug errors linked to up to 22,000 deaths

Health secretary says mistakes in dispensing medicines cause 'totally avoidable harm and death'

Jeremy Hunt is ordering an NHS crackdown on errors in dispensing drugs to patients, which research shows could be contributing to as many as 22,000 people dying every year.

The health and social care secretary says mistakes involving medication, both in the NHS and globally, are "causing appalling levels of harm and death that are totally avoidable".