Patient safety in the NHS: after Francis (April 2023)

Summary

In this article, published by the British Journal of Nursing, John Tingle, Lecturer in Law, discusses recently published patient safety reports including Patient Safety Learning's Mind the Implementation Gap.

Tingle concludes:

"The two reports discussed here (Patient Safety Learning, 2022; Martin et al, 2023) show that 10 years after Francis (2013) there has been some improvement in NHS patient safety. This can be termed ‘measured improvement’, but this has been no big-bang trajectory. The arguments advanced in both reports need to be discussed more widely, and they provide an excellent basis for patient safety reform."