Recurring concern
Unreliable access to patients’ medication histories
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Request correctionFirst reported 13 Dec 2008•Latest report 3 Feb 2026
What this concern includes
Includes failures of arrangements or systems intended to make a patient’s current or relevant medication history available to clinicians, carers or other staff responsible for safe care, including inaccessible prescription documentation, unavailable electronic medication histories and reliance on potentially incomplete verbal histories because the underlying record cannot be accessed.
Not included
- Excludes medication prescribing, dispensing, administration, monitoring or reconciliation failures where access to the medication history is not the unsafe condition.
- Excludes general clinical-record access problems where medication history is not the material information needed for care.
- Excludes failures to act on an accurate and accessible medication history.
- Excludes medication-history deficiencies confined to a named transition or reconciliation process when that process provides the more specific supported boundary.
- Reports
- 12
- Individual concerns
- 12
- Date range
- 2008–2026
- Stated actions
- 11
Distinct published reports
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Described in published responses
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Reports over time
Reports about this concern issued each year.
* 2026 is projected from reports observed to 7 Sep 2026.
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Concerns and responses across reports
Only concerns grouped under this recurring concern are included. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.
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Concerns raised1
Failure of nursing staff to establish a fallen patient’s medical and medication history
This report raised 4 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
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Concerns raised1
Unavailability of electronic access to patients’ medication histories
This report raised 5 other concerns. They are not shown here because they do not form part of this recurring concern.
Responses linked to these concernsEach statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
No linked response statementsNo respondent-stated action or position is linked to these concerns in the published data.
Data last updated 7 September 2026