Improving systems of care

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1. Lessons in safety that manufacturing got right—and what it means for patient voice in healthcare

   • Healthcare
   • System safety
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Healthcare
     • System safety
     • Leadership
     • Human factors
     • Patient
     • Organisational culture
     • Speaking up

   By Annette Cairns, 9 June

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   • 9 June

2. Delays to establishing NHS care for very severe ME (a briefing paper by #ThereForMe, March 2026)

   • Long-term conditions

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 6 May

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   • 199 views
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   • 6 May

3. Strategies and tools to learn from work that goes well within healthcare patient safety practices: a mixed methods systematic review (2025)

   • Safety II

   By Patient Safety Learning, 29 April

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   • 285 views
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   • 29 April

4. The flexibility factor: whole population safety for today and tomorrow

   • System safety
   • Innovation
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     • System safety
     • Innovation
     • Healthcare
     • Standards
     • Policies / Protocols / Procedures
     • Health inequalities
     • Population health

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 April

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   • 710 views
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   • 27 April

5. Resilience engineering concepts, Safety-II language, FRAM practice, and co-creating communities: how Hollnagel reshaped patient safety (April 2026)

   • System safety
   • Resilience
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     • System safety
     • Resilience
     • Safety II
     • Human factors

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 April

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   • 8 April

6. Safety II professionals: How resilience engineering can transform safety practice (March 2020)

   • Safety II
   • System safety
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Safety II
     • System safety
     • Resilience

   By Patient Safety Learning, 6 March

   • 0 comments
   • 582 views
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   • 6 March

7. Quality of care in an era of global challenges: A transformational vision for WHO European Region and beyond (5 November 2025)

   • System safety
   • Global health
   • (and 4 more)

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     • System safety
     • Global health
     • Quality improvement
     • Transformation
     • Leadership
     • Resilience

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 January

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   • 209 views
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   • 27 January

8. Corridor care guidance needs to move beyond what “should” happen and grapple honestly with why it isn’t (a blog by Claire Cox)

   • Hospital corridor
   • Accident and Emergency

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 18 December, 2025

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   • 1,618 views
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   • 18 December, 2025

9. Open letter to the Chair of the UK COVID-19 Inquiry from the Covid-19 Airborne Transmission Alliance (28 November 2025)

   • Virus
   • Pandemic
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     • Virus
     • Pandemic
     • Transmission

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 8 December, 2025

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   • 8 December, 2025

10. Complex long term conditions service (UCL Partners Health Innovation)

    • Long-term conditions

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 25 November, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 318 views
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    • 25 November, 2025

11. From diagnosis to delivery: A framework for accelerating NHS productivity growth (November 2025)

    • Systematic review
    • Productivity

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 17 November, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 443 views
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    • 17 November, 2025

12. Advancing patient quality and safety: A scalable framework for transformation

    • Accountability
    • Safety culture
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Accountability
      • Safety culture
      • Safety management
      • Safety process
      • Transformation
      • Team culture
      • Speaking up

    By Anonymous, 12 November, 2025

    • 1 comment
    • 886 views
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    • Comment by KSC
    • 20 November, 2025

13. ECRI: Healthcare is a system (7 January 2025)

    • System safety
    • Human factors
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      • System safety
      • Human factors
      • User centred design

    By Patient Safety Learning, 15 October, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 258 views
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    • 15 October, 2025

14. G.R.I.T. Guide to understanding organisational drift

    • Organisational learning
    • Organisation / service factors
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      • Organisational learning
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Organisational culture

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 October, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 356 views
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    • 3 October, 2025

15. What should a learning health system look like? (22 August 2025)

    • Organisational learning
    • Quality improvement
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Organisational learning
      • Quality improvement
      • Organisational culture

    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 September, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 271 views
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    • 12 September, 2025

16. Longwoods: Health Quality 5.0

    • Leadership
    • Workforce management
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Leadership
      • Workforce management
      • Social Care
      • Healthcare
      • Person-centred care
      • Transformation

    By Sam, 4 September, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 289 views
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    • Added by Sam
    • 4 September, 2025

17. A history of the "bow tie" (August 2025)

    • Risk assessment
    • Risk management

    By Patient Safety Learning, 30 August, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 274 views
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    • 30 August, 2025

18. Continuity of care in general practice and patient outcomes in Denmark: a population-based cohort study (22 July 2025)

    • Systems modelling
    • GP

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 19 August, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 574 views
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    • 19 August, 2025

19. The Coherent Framework: A systems analysis tool for decoding all work (1 July 2025)

    • System safety
    • Safety management

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 July, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 444 views
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    • 14 July, 2025

20. Time to focus on the blue dots. Designing care around people, not buildings: an RCP toolkit (2 July 2025)

    • Community care
    • Neighbourhood services
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      • Community care
      • Neighbourhood services
      • Social Care
      • Primary care
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Person-centred care

    By Patient Safety Learning, 11 July, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 348 views
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    • 11 July, 2025

21. Connected care: Transforming care coordination (Partnership for Change, April 2025)

    • Care coordination
    • Care navigation
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      • Care coordination
      • Care navigation
      • Communication
      • Person-centred care
      • Appointment
      • Health inequalities
      • Primary care
      • Collaboration
      • Long-term conditions

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 May, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 303 views
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    • 22 May, 2025

22. The implementation of Safety Management Systems in healthcare: a systematic review and international comparison (March 2025)

    • System safety
    • Safety management
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      • System safety
      • Safety management
      • High reliability organisations
      • Research
      • Healthcare

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 March, 2025

    • 0 comments
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    • 17 March, 2025

23. Lost in the system: the need for better admin (17 February 2025)

    • Clinical administration
    • Communication
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Clinical administration
      • Communication
      • System safety

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 17 February, 2025

    • 0 comments
    • 680 views
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    • 17 February, 2025

24. My report on the NHS diagnosed its dire condition. Now here’s the cure (Ara Darzi, 18 September 2024)

    • System safety
    • Safety report

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 18 November, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 414 views
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    • 18 November, 2024

25. Animation Series: Changing the way we communicate system safety research

    • System safety
    • Human factors
    • (and 1 more)

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      • System safety
      • Human factors
      • Communication

    By Sam, 27 September, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 425 views
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    • Added by Sam
    • 27 September, 2024