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1. ‘Chaotic, scary and intense’: Inside the scandal-hit hospital where teen spent her final days (The Independent, 30 August 2025)

   • Mental health
   • Patient death
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Mental health
     • Patient death
     • Organisational culture
     • Children and Young People
     • Skill-based issue
     • Organisational Performance

   By Patient Safety Learning, 2 September, 2025

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   • 2 September, 2025

2. Insights from a reducing falls project at the University Hospital Southampton

   • Falls
   • Quality improvement
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Falls
     • Quality improvement
     • Patient harmed
     • Hospital ward
     • Observations

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 October, 2024

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   • 22 October, 2024

3. The sinister side of medicine: how the system is letting patients down and why we must aspire to keep future patients safe (a blog by Dr Freya Smith)

   • Patient harmed
   • Organisation / service factors
   • (and 12 more)

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     • Patient harmed
     • Organisation / service factors
     • GP
     • Training
     • Students
     • Personal reflection
     • Private sector
     • Regulatory issue
     • Womens health
     • Surgeon
     • Doctor
     • Investigation
     • Speaking up
     • Organisational culture

   By Freya Smith, 20 February, 2023

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   • 3,632 views
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   • 20 February, 2023

4. Patient referrals and waiting lists: A ticking time bomb

   • Reporting
   • Organisational learning
   • (and 11 more)

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     • Reporting
     • Organisational learning
     • Clinical governance
     • Human factors
     • Staff factors
     • Lack of resources
     • Pandemic
     • Secondary impact
     • Organisational culture
     • Investigation
     • Patient safety incident
     • Root cause anaylsis
     • Long waiting list

   By Jerome P, 16 February, 2021

   • 1 comment
   • 5,108 views
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   • Comment by Steve Turner
   • 16 February, 2021

5. Supporting patients who are resistant to mouth care

   • Care goals
   • Patient / family support
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Care goals
     • Patient / family support
     • Quality improvement

   By Claire Cox, 4 August, 2020

   • 0 comments
   • 1,549 views
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   • 4 August, 2020

6. My thoughts on the Paterson Inquiry: a blog from a scrub theatre nurse

   • Leadership
   • Culture of fear
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Leadership
     • Culture of fear
     • Bullying
     • Whistleblowing
     • Speaking up
     • Organisational culture

   By Anonymous, 10 February, 2020

   • 2 comments
   • 3,456 views
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   • Comment by HelenH
   • 10 February, 2020

7. It's not perfection, but humanity that patients need: a short talk by Dr Poorman

   • Doctor
   • Second victim
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Doctor
     • Second victim
     • Patient harmed
     • Just Culture
     • Culture of fear
     • Speaking up

   By Claire Cox, 22 January, 2020

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   • 1,621 views
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   • 22 January, 2020

8. My experience of speaking up as a healthcare assistant in a care home

   • Care home
   • Care home staff
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Care home
     • Care home staff
     • Behaviour
     • Bullying
     • Speaking up
     • Safety behaviour

   By Anonymous, 13 January, 2020

   • 4 comments
   • 10,312 views
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   • Comment by Dumbo
   • 24 April, 2025

9. Post mortem of a career (March 2019)

   • Bullying
   • Speaking up
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Bullying
     • Speaking up
     • Doctor
     • Anaesthetist
     • Training

   By Claire Cox, 4 January, 2020

   • 0 comments
   • 2,655 views
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   • Added by Claire Cox
   • 4 January, 2020

10. Educational tales … gastroenteritis that wasn’t (or, the day the hoofbeats were zebra)

    • Accident and Emergency
    • Patient death
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Accident and Emergency
      • Patient death
      • Confirmation bias
      • Decision making
      • Recommendations
      • Medicine - Gastreoenterology

    By Claire Cox, 9 December, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,916 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 9 December, 2019

11. A personal view of the harmful effects of diathermy smoke

    • Operating theatre / recovery
    • Health education
    • (and 9 more)

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      • Operating theatre / recovery
      • Health education
      • Health and safety
      • Medical device / equipment
      • Health hazards
      • Knowledge issue
      • Accountability
      • Organisational development
      • Safety assessment
      • Risk assessment
      • Organisational culture

    By Kathy Nabbie, 19 November, 2019

    • 2 comments
    • 4,146 views
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    • Comment by Kathy Nabbie
    • 1 December, 2019

12. A dropped instrument, washed in theatre and immediately reused: a story from a theatre nurse

    • Anaesthetist
    • Patient
    • (and 9 more)

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      • Anaesthetist
      • Patient
      • Surgeon
      • Nurse
      • Behaviour
      • Documentation
      • Health and safety
      • Accountability
      • Duty of Candour
      • Culture of fear
      • Safety assessment

    By Anonymous, 15 November, 2019

    • 11 comments
    • 12,718 views
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    • Comment by HH_PMI
    • 11 May, 2024

13. I'm a mental health nurse. There are no good decisions, only least bad ones (November 2019)

    • Nurse
    • Mental health

    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 November, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,392 views
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    • 12 November, 2019

14. Even a doctor can't keep his father safe in the hospital (April 2013)

    • Patient safety incident
    • Near miss
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Patient safety incident
      • Near miss
      • Risk management
      • Human error
      • Patient / family involvement

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 9 October, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,437 views
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    • 9 October, 2019

15. Oxford University surgical lectures: Retained swabs

    • Operating theatre / recovery
    • Nurse
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Operating theatre / recovery
      • Nurse
      • Doctor
      • Surgeon
      • Patient harmed
      • Additional treatment / tests
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Young Adult

    By Claire Cox, 3 August, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,760 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 3 August, 2019

16. Critical care by the roadside. How human factors can assist

    • Ambulance
    • AHP
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Ambulance
      • AHP
      • Anaesthetist
      • Doctor
      • Paramedic
      • Treatment
      • Emergency medicine

    By Patient Safety Learning, 26 June, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,632 views
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    • 26 June, 2019

17. Acute Kidney Injury - Podcast

    • Doctor
    • Screening
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Doctor
      • Screening
      • Reports / results
      • Tests / investigations
      • Medicine - Renal
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Young Adult

    By Patient Safety Learning, 26 June, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,608 views
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    • 26 June, 2019

18. What are the signs of sepsis? Interview with Dr Chris Steele on This Morning

    • Service user
    • Patient
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Service user
      • Patient
      • Training

    By Patient Safety Learning, 26 June, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,280 views
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    • 26 June, 2019