There is a fragility at the top of the health system, a lack of individual accountability. There is infantilisation of people who have been selected to be expert and dysfunction in the relationships between…
Enormous emphasis has been placed on patient safety in the NHS in recent years and good progress has been made, for example, through the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, which at its core seeks to improve the way…
Patient safety is at the heart of everything we do – how often have we heard this being stated by leaders of healthcare organisations? And yet, report after report on scandals which have happened in the…
The 6th Global Ministerial Health Summit in Santiago, Chile, was a great opportunity to hear from global partners about progress in patient safety and innovations to embed patient voice…
The updated Patient Safety Commissioner strategy, which I published in January, sets out 3 main aims…
Organisations who are genuinely interested in the views and experiences of patients, families, carers and the workforce can learn from these experiences. I was very encouraged by the new Secretary of State for health and social care Victoria Atkins MP who recently spoke…