Patient Safety Commissioner
Listening to Patients
At the heart of the National Joint Registry is an organisation that looks after the best interest of patients undergoing joint surgery. It does this by recording, monitoring, analysing, and reporting on the…
Antidepressant prescribing is at record levels in England, with around one in five adults receiving these medicines for a range of mental health conditions and chronic pain. Prescriptions have…
I am the chief executive of Demos, a cross-party think tank that works to put people at the heart of policy making to improve how policy is developed as well as trust in politics. Think tanks sit outside government and are…
In 2016 the Health Quality Safety Commission (HQSC) in NZ launched a five-year programme that improved and standardised the way health care systems recognised and responded to deterioration. There were three main work streams…
Ryan’s Rule was developed in response to the tragic death of Ryan Saunders in 2007. Sadly, Ryan died from an undiagnosed streptococcal infection that led to toxic shock syndrome. Worried that Ryan’s condition was worsening, his parents…
Eirian Edwards and Chris Subbe explain how they have implemented the new initiative in Wales. In April 2023 we officially launched the Call 4Concern service for all adult patients admitted to our hospital in Bangor, as the first site in Wales to…