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Latest blog from the PSC: Using the Patient Safety Principles to improve culture All healthcare work sometimes includes making truly difficult decisions, decisions that can have serious consequences for patients and their families, now, or in the future. This stretches from wards to Boards and into every part of the healthcare system. You only need... [...]

Strategy The PSC has updated her strategy. Click here 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. Click here Recommendations Here are the recommendations for [...]

Delivering a culture for change While the Patient Safety Commissioner is independent of government and the healthcare system the Commissioner’s funding is provided by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). The PSC remains accountable to Parliament including through the Health and Social Care Committee. The Office of the Patient Safety Commissioner is resourced [...]

You can email us to share your experiences of medicines and medical devices. Hearing from patients and families helps the Commissioner promote patients’ voices with the relevant healthcare organisations, such as the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and NHS England. In turn, this helps those bodies understand what might need to be done [...]

PSC launches new Patient Safety Principles I am delighted to announce a major step in the improvement of patient safety with the publication of the Patient Safety Principles. The Principles follow our public consultation to which we received over 800 responses. They provide a framework for working collaboratively with patients as partners, planning, and decision-making. [...]