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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
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    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. Why learn from everyday work? (Steven Shorrock, 2020)

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  2. United States Army Combined Arms Center: Leaders guide to After Action Reviews (December 2013)

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    • 3,564 views

  3. GREATix: Improving culture, wellbeing and patient safety through positive feedback

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    • 7,224 views

  4. Kawaldip Sehmi: International patient advocates from 101 countries call for action (19 November 2020)

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    • 1,155 views

  5. ARHQ: The CUSP Method

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  6. The NHS Race and Health Observatory—its time has come (17 June 2020)

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    • 1,455 views

  7. Patient Safety Learning: How do we take global action for patient safety? (15 October 2020)

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    • 16 comments
    • 9,228 views

  8. Q blog: Four icons of patient safety (30 September 2020)

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    • 1,527 views

  9. Health is made at home, hospitals are for repair: Nigel Crisp (6 October 2020)

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    • 1,666 views

  10. When actions speak louder than words — Racism and sickle cell disease (1 September 2020)

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    • 2,566 views

  11. HSE Dublin North East’s Patient Safety Tool Box Talks©

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    • 2,158 views

  12. Mind the Gap: A handbook of clinical signs in Black and Brown skin

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    • 5,725 views

  13. Stolen breaths (16 July 2020)

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  14. Treading around level 3: Time for a paradigm shift in patient safety?

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  15. RCOG: Probe, alert, challenge and escalate model (PACE)

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  16. Patient Safety Authority: Health literacy

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  17. Advancing patient safety: Reviews from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Making Healthcare Safer III report

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    • 1,576 views

  18. The lurking danger in the “business case” for patient safety (2 December 2019)

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    • 1,915 views

  19. Healthcare Quarterly: Special Issue – Patient Safety

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  20. How do audits influence intentions to improve practice?

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  21. The art of asking questions as safety professionals (July 2020)

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  22. EPIC: The patient experience and outcome measures (Webinar, July 2020)

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  23. 2019 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards: An Interview with Gordon D. Schiff

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  24. Having a plan – a short guide for patients (a blog by Steve Turner)

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  25. Accidental hypoglycaemia caused by an arterial flush drug error: a case report and contributory causes analysis (5 September 2013)

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