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…
The national implementation of Martha’s Rule is a major step forward in the commitment to improve patient safety. It is a shame that it has come about following the unnecessary tragic death of 13-year-old Martha Mills. Unfortunately, Martha and her family are not the only ones to suffer…
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…
How do we make change happen at scale across a complex health system? It has been said that the best way to understand something is to try to change it. Through the sprint policy development meetings to devise the plan to make Martha’s Rule a success in England, we heard from…
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…
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…
