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400 GP patients receive mislabelled medicine after IT glitch
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A glitch hit GPConnect, the computer system used by general practice clinics, causing patients to receive wrongly labelled medicine.
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One patient was told to take 10 bottles of cough mixture each time, instead of 10ml. Another had to take two strips, instead of two tablets.
These were some of the mistakes 83 general practice (GP) clinics around the country faced on Saturday, when a glitch hit GPConnect, the computer system they were on.
