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How do you solve a problem like prescribing? Prescribing error—a foremost threat to paediatric safety—has been studied (eg, multicentre research quantifying prevalence and types), clarified (eg, by elucidating factors that complicate prescribing for children) and prioritised within policy, quality improvement and education. Instances of successful and innovative interventions have been published, but prescribing safety remains elusive. This begs these questions: Should we look at the problem differently? How can education better address it? How should we implement and share innovations? We address these questions by proposing that prescribing safety is a complex proble, reviewing how familiar interventions can improve environments for safe prescribing and showing how implementation science could contribute.