Improving patient safety
New blogs from across the hub
Patient engagement
Blogs on engaging patients for patient safety
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Guidance for patients: Holding your ICB to account (14 March 2024)
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How my mum, 82, got trapped between the NHS and social care (The Times, 30 March 2024)
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Think Ammonia! Elliot's story
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Nuffield Trust: Public satisfaction with the NHS – what do the findings from the 2023 British Social Attitudes survey tell us? (27 March 2024)
Stories from the frontline
Blogs written by doctors and nurses on the frontline
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A silent safety scandal: A nurse’s first-hand account of a corridor nursing shift
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Public satisfaction with A&E at an all-time low: reflections of an A&E doctor (4 May 2023)
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I fight every day to care for my patients – but junior doctors are at breaking point (12 April 2023)
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Helping patients get their lives back: the colorectal surgeon (BMJ, 31 January 2023)
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“The term 'challenging’ doesn’t cut it”: A personal reflection from an Emergency Medical Technician
Safety stories
Blogs and vlogs from patients and health and care staff
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The GP, the PA, their patient and her tragic death (7 August 2023)
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The sinister side of medicine: how the system is letting patients down and why we must aspire to keep future patients safe (a blog by Dr Freya Smith)
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Jenny, and why we must learn from her misdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism
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Dentists would not treat my toothache – now my health has been wrecked for ever (The Guardian, 20 April 2022)
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It’s time to rename the ‘visitor’: reflections from a relative