People with sensory impairment face challenges and no more so then when it comes to managing health conditions with devices that are not designed for them and medicines they have difficulty using. I have been contacted by many patients with vision or hearing loss who experience…
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The Safety Gap Report
The Safety Gap Report Alternatively, you can download the report below. Download the report. Download the Easy Read of the introductions and recommendations. Download the Braille Ready Format(.brf). Download the large print version of the report. DownloadDownload Download Download ‘The Safety Gap must be closed’ People with sensory impairment face challenges and no more so [...]
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One year on from the Hughes Report
It is one year since I published the Hughes Report on the options for redress for those harmed by pelvic mesh and valproate. When I launched the report in Parliament on 7th February 2024, I never imagined that a year later I would…
’How the National Joint Registry supports patients undergoing surgery’
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…
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…