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Partnership Working The Patient Safety Commissioner is working with a wide range of organisations to promote the voice of patients and improve patient safety in relation to medicines and medical devices.  She co-chairs the Informal Patient Safety Leaders Network which brings together leaders from the key organisations working in the patient safety sphere.  She is [...]

Putting patients first The Patient Safety Commissioner is a champion for patients and leads the drive to improve the safety of medicines and medical devices. Her aim is to improve how patients are listened to by the healthcare system, the government, and the NHS to place them at the heart of decision making. She supports [...]

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) and, from 2026, via the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The PSC remains accountable to Parliament. The Office of the Patient [...]

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 [...]

Patient Safety Commissioner Publishes Impact Report I am delighted to announce the publication of the Patient Safety Commissioner Impact Report, which sets out the impact that the Patient Safety Commissioner has made over the first three years of the role. This report can be found here. UpdatesSecretary of State and Social Care reaffirms commitment to [...]