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Improving patient safety

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  1. Clinical governance and audits

    • 41 articles
    Clinical practice guidelines: The good, the bad, and the ugly (May 2023)
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  2. Design for safety

    • 183 articles
    SEIPS: Everything you need to know to get you started
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  3. Disasters averted/near misses

    • 10 articles
    Q&A: Patient safety derives from data-driven leadership (5 July 2024)
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  4. Equipment and facilities

    • 103 articles
    The hidden millions in healthcare: why Sunshine legislation matters
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  5. Health inequalities

    • 309 articles
    Accessible comms are a duty not a courtesy (HSJ, 28 September 2026)
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  6. Human factors (improving human performance in care delivery)

    Topic leads Paul Bowie
    • 405 articles
    Ergonomics Made Easy: A resource Book for Workers (14 July 2026)
    Latest comment by Mark Hughes,

  7. Improving systems of care

    • 314 articles
    NHS England: Quality management systems
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  8. Implementation of improvements

    Topic lead Jemma Barton
    • 132 articles
    Improving the Family Health Board governance processes at NUTH
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  9. International development and humanitarian

    • 39 articles
    World Patient Safety Day: Safe care for people living with chronic diseases (Médecins Sans Frontières )
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  10. Patient Safety Alerts

    • 50 articles
    National Patient Safety Alert. Patient hoists and slings (all types): risk of death and serious harm from falls (MHRA, 16 September 2026)
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  11. Safety stories

    • 85 articles
    Ensuring patients feel informed, listened to and supported long after the headlines disappear
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  12. Stories from the front line

    • 66 articles
    Anonymous
    Martha's Rule: A valuable patient safety tool facing new challenges
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  13. Transformative Simulation

    Topic lead Sharon Weldon
    • 19 articles
    Using simulation to involve patients and communities in shaping safer care: The Involvement Intention
    Latest comment by Sharon Weldon,

  14. Workforce and resources

    • 300 articles
    BMA reporting portal submissions: patient safety - advanced practice roles (22 September 2026)
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263 articles in this category

  1. Department of Health. A Safer Place for Patients: Learning to improve patient safety (3 November 2005)

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  2. The Health Foundation: We shouldn’t get comfortable with corridor ‘care’ (14 February 2024)

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  3. The Point of Care Foundation: Fuelling the flames of humanising health and care (8 January 2024)

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    • 1,365 views

  4. Safe spaces for safety discussions: Do medical grand rounds still exist?

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    • 5,439 views

  5. Elective care waiting lists: can you make them fair? (King's Fund podcast, 29 November 2023)

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    • 1,076 views

  6. A complex adaptive systems approach to patient safety

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    • 2,516 views

  7. NHS leaders do not have the data they need to keep patients safe (HSJ, 29 November 2023)

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    • 1,100 views

  8. Safety For All: 2023 Conference report

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    • 1,861 views

  9. Designing in risk: Measuring safety part 3

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    • 2,726 views

  10. Patient Safety Commissioner: ‘Why we need a Sunshine Payments Act’ (Kath Sansom, November 2023)

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    • 1,275 views

  11. Errors as clues in the search for safety measures: Measuring safety part 2

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  12. Can you measure safety? Part 1

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    • 4,530 views

  13. LFPSE: Psychological harm workshop write-up (NHS England, October 2023)

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    • 1,473 views

  14. NHS England: The Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service – patient and family discovery report (13 October 2023)

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  15. RLDatix and NHS England LFPSE webinar (29 August 2023)

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    • 1,421 views

  16. LFPSE API validation guide (NHS England, 6 August 2023)

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  17. Safety For All: Parliamentary Reception (13 July 2023)

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  18. How learning from narratives can help improve patient safety: a blog by Rosanna Hunt

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  19. Medical alarms: Critical, yet challenging (June 2023)

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  20. The importance of critical incident reporting – and how to do it (Tim Fetherston)

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  21. Southern Health: LFPSE presentation for staff (May 2023)

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  22. Turn on the Lights podcast

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  23. Exploring how ward staff engage with the implementation of a patient safety intervention: a UK-based qualitative process evaluation (July 2017)

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  24. Will the NHS be ready for the next patient safety scandal? (HSJ, 23 May 2023)

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  25. Patient Safety Indicator Measures (AHRQ)

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