Hospital pharmacists are now completing the medication plan in electronic discharge summaries in the majority of clinical units at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne following a 2015 study that showed the practice was able to reduce medication errors.

The study, which was published in the Medical Journal of Australia last year and has just won the $10,000 MJA/MDA National prize for excellence in medical research for 2017, was conducted by a large group of clinicians from Alfred Health, led by chief pharmacy information officer Erica Tong.