The Patient Safety Commissioner’s strategy aims to ‘embed patient safety and patient voice throughout the healthcare system’. This really matters. Time and again, it is patients and families who are sounding the alarm on healthcare safety…
Guest blogs
‘Getting it right for the most vulnerable means it is better for everyone.’
Getting it right for the most vulnerable means it is better for everyone. This applies as much to improving patient safety as anywhere else. We need to identify harmful events and put controls and systems in place to prevent them…
‘Top patient safety priority must be to transform the culture of the NHS’
Retiring NHS Ombudsman Rob Behrens calls for a cultural transformation in the NHS so it becomes collegiate, respectful, and well-led, prioritises patient safety, and listens to patients and all who speak up for them.
Why insight from patients and families is crucial to every safety investigation
HSSIB exists to investigate patient safety concerns so we can improve healthcare care at a national level. At the heart of this is a professional patient safety investigation that helps us to understand how…
Revolutionising diabetes management
For me, the principles of Type 1 diabetes and good outcomes has always based itself on three planks: self-management, peer support and access to trained professionals…
Universal provision of pre-filled syringes
We have asked leading experts what works to improve patient safety and this is what they told us…