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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)
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  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
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  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. NHS England: Introducing the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service (May 2023)

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  2. Where do hospitals go from here on quality, safety? Key thoughts from 4 experts (April 2023)

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  3. Safe and Sound; thinking differently to improve patient safety (21 April 2023)

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  4. 10 years on: An interview with Sir Robert Francis (Nuffield Trust, 2 February 2023)

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  5. Safety for All: 2022 Conference Report

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  6. NHS England podcast: Steps to getting connected to LFPSE - in discussion with the NHS England reporting leads (31 January 2023)

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  7. Identifying safety practices perceived as low value: An exploratory survey of healthcare staff in the United Kingdom and Australia (16 December 2022)

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  8. LFPSE: Learning from two transitioned providers (podcasts)

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  9. Patient Safety Learning: LFPSE service correspondence with NHS England

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  10. Delphi study round two - A study across NHS England hospital trusts operating theatres

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  11. Reducing harm from overuse of healthcare (BMJ, 7 December 2022)

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  12. The National State of Patient Safety: What we know about avoidable harm in England (29 November 2022)

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  13. How we can adapt and improve our current healthcare systems to deliver sustainable high-quality care and patient safety (18 November 2022)

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  14. West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: Improving patient safety

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  15. What’s so tough about patient safety? Presentation by Mary Dixon-Woods

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  16. Health is wealth? REAL Challenge annual lecture (9 November 2022)

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  17. The Guardian view on the NHS: set up to fail by being underresourced to meet demand (15 November 2022)

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  18. The pelvic mesh scandal makes it clear: doctors must declare any funding (The Guardian, 9 July 2020)

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  19. Doctors make mistakes. A new documentary explores what happens when they do—and how to fix it (Time, 24 January 2019)

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  20. Hospitals' uncomfortably high tolerance for errors (Becker Hospital Review, 10 August 2022)

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  21. Developing a simulation safety policy for translational simulation programs in healthcare (24 January 2022)

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  22. Strength of safety measures introduced by medical practices to prevent a recurrence of patient safety incidents: An observational study (August 2022)

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  23. CQC brief guide: restraint (physical and mechanical)

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  24. Academy of Medical Royal Colleges: Fixing the NHS — Why we must stop normalising the unacceptable (September 2022)

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  25. An interview with Hardeep Singh: The 2021 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards (1 August 2022)

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