Our Work

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Strategy

The PSC has updated her strategy.

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Martha’s Rule

The PSC is chairing the Martha’s Rule oversight group to support a new initiative for patients and families to trigger an urgent clinical review if a patient is deteriorating rapidly.  Find out about the work here.

Recommendations

Here are the recommendations for improvements to patient safety that the PSC has made and the responses from the relevant organisations. Our expectation is that those organisations will respond within three months and we will publish those responses.

Redress

Here we will provide updates on the Patient Safety Commissioner’s project looking at options for redress for those affected by sodium valproate or pelvic mesh.

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Partnership Working

The Patient Safety Commissioner is setting up a warm handover network. Here we lay out the aims of the network and how it will work.

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History

Here we explain how the role of the Patient Safety Commissioner was established to become the first of its kind in the world.