In addition to its medication safety newsletters, ISMP has historically sent out urgent advisories to subscribers about serious errors or information requiring immediate attention to ensure that the healthcare community has the opportunity learn about emerging safety issues in real time.
Beginning in 2009, ISMP joined with the other members of the National Coordinating Council on Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) to create a National Alert Network (NAN) that broadens the reach of those alerts. The NAN warns healthcare providers through several national distribution channels of the risk for medication errors that have recently caused serious harm or death. The alerts are based on information submitted to the ISMP National Medication Error Reporting Program.
