Driving safety into the agenda (National Health Executive, Jan/Feb 2021)

Summary

As part of the NHS family, NHS Supply Chain is prioritising patient and user safety as a core part of their approach to supplying clinical products to the NHS by raising standards and effective partnership working. Jonathan Devereux, Head of Safety and Innovation, heads up a small team focused on driving proactive action on safety complaints, building an innovation pathway and ensuring they drive safety into the agenda for future procurement. In this article for the National Health Executive he explains the work the clinical and product assurance team are doing.