The Patient Safety Principles have been developed as one of the Commissioner’s statutory duties following a public consultation which received over 800 responses. A detailed analysis of the responses is here. They provide a framework for decision making, planning and collaborative working with patients as partners in a just and learning culture and are for everyone working in the healthcare system.
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'New principles will help us make the right choices'
Every day we have to make tough choices, balancing benefits and risks. Those choices impact on patient safety, right now or far into the future, with effects that we might have never intended or anticipated.
There are too many tragedies where people have been harmed by a healthcare system that is slow, siloed and disjointed and does not listen.
Harm is not abstract but it is hidden from view, in patients’ homes and with wide-ranging impacts on people’s lives. Harm is compounded when the healthcare system turns its back on those who have suffered. When it does not listen to the voices of patients and those caring for them and does not put things right. Disadvantaged communities who need our closest attention have worse outcomes and face greater barriers to speaking up.
We need to turn this around and have clear accountability for decisions…