Improving patient safety
New blogs from across the hub
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Safety in surgery series
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Electronic patient records: why the NHS urgently needs a strategy to reap the benefits (The Health Foundation, 9 April 2025)
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What do Patient Safety Incident Response Plans tell us about how the NHS is approaching safety investigations?
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One size does not fit all. How AI and better data can help us embrace complexity in diagnosis and treatment
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Does campaigning work to prevent infections? A blog for World Hand Hygiene Day 2025
Patient engagement
Blogs on engaging patients for patient safety
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What your patient is thinking: The value of a little extra time (20 February 2025)
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PHIN: How can you influence your safety as a patient? (10 March 2025)
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Sara Riggare: Hear my concerns and I will take your recommendations seriously (5 March 2025)
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Providing patient-safe care begins with asking and listening... really listening!
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Why patient engagement is actually grief work (28 October 2024)
Stories from the frontline
Blogs written by doctors and nurses on the frontline
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NHS, a boiling frog in a saucepan: has suffering in care become mundane?
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A nurse's response to the NHSE guidance on their principles for providing safe and good quality care in temporary escalation spaces
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Reflections on a clinical shift: "After 20 years of nursing, this is one of the worst shifts I have ever completed"
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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)
Safety stories
Blogs and vlogs from patients and health and care staff
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Time-critical Parkinson’s medication: the human cost of delays and mistakes
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Navigating the healthcare system as a university student: My personal experience
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The challenges of navigating the healthcare system: Margaret's story
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The challenges of navigating the healthcare system: Sue's story
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The challenges of navigating the healthcare system: David's story