The project involves the development of a new database capable of storing information about medication administration errors and near misses. A query system also needs to be developed so that analysis can be performed on the data. The system should also be updatable, so that as circumstances change different data can be recorded and analysed.

Currently nurses record the errors on paper and include information such as the date, time, type of error, description of what happened and why, and suggestions for preventing it from happening again. A system needs to be developed so that nurses can input this information directly into a central database. The system needs to be very quick and easy to use as nurses are always very busy. The system needs to be intelligent, it needs to remember frequently entered information to minimise typing required of the nurses.

A query system also needs to be developed so that administrators can analyse the data to discover what type of accidents are happening frequently and why and put processes in place to prevent them continuing. This system also needs to be easy to use as the users are not using computers all the time.