Risk management and legal issues

Articles in this category

1. Did you know? Learning from staff claims relating to exposure of substances hazardous to health (NHS Resolution)

   • Staff safety
   • Complaint
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Staff safety
     • Complaint
     • Health and safety
     • Work / environment factors
     • Legal issue
     • Risk assessment

   By Patient Safety Learning, 3 February, 2025

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   • 476 views
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   • 3 February, 2025

2. Effects of the Italian law on patient safety and health professional responsibilities five years after its approval by the Italian Parliament (26 June 2023)

   • Italy
   • Legal issue
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Italy
     • Legal issue
     • Risk management
     • Implementation
     • Funding
     • Change management

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 27 March, 2024

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   • 873 views
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   • 27 March, 2024

3. Patient safety and the law: driving the development of a patient safety culture (BJN, 25 May 2023)

   • Legal issue
   • Redress
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Legal issue
     • Redress
     • Safety culture

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 June, 2023

   • 0 comments
   • 767 views
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   • 15 June, 2023

4. Tom Utley: My first visit to A&E since I broke my leg aged five was a seven-hour lesson in why the NHS has ground to a halt (24 November 2022)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Accident and Emergency
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Emergency medicine
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Long waiting list
     • General Practice
     • Legal issue
     • Negligence claim

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 30 November, 2022

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   • 1,046 views
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   • 30 November, 2022

5. Perspectives of emergency clinicians about medical errors resulting in patient harm or malpractice litigation (10 November 2022)

   • Legal issue
   • Patient harmed
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Legal issue
     • Patient harmed
     • Emergency medicine
     • Doctor

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 25 November, 2022

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   • 965 views
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   • 25 November, 2022

6. National Medical Examiner's report 2021 (18 May 2022)

   • Medical examiner
   • Pathology
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Medical examiner
     • Pathology
     • Post mortem
     • Pandemic
     • Training
     • England
     • Wales

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 November, 2022

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   • 1,225 views
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   • 1 November, 2022

7. AvMA case study: Chloe's story

   • Paediatrics
   • Legal issue
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Paediatrics
     • Legal issue
     • Transparency
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Emergency medicine
     • Investigation
     • Patient death
     • Patient / family support

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 October, 2022

   • 0 comments
   • 820 views
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   • 7 October, 2022

8. AvMA case study: Lyndsey's story

   • Maternity
   • Legal issue
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Maternity
     • Legal issue
     • Patient death
     • Baby
     • Coroner
     • Medication
     • Ambulance
     • Prescribing

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 5 October, 2022

   • 0 comments
   • 801 views
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   • 5 October, 2022

9. AvMA case study: Rod's story

   • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
   • Pain
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
     • Pain
     • Negligence claim
     • Transparency
     • Patient harmed

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 30 September, 2022

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   • 845 views
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   • 30 September, 2022

10. AvMA case study: Heather's story

    • Legal issue
    • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Legal issue
      • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
      • Pain
      • Patient harmed

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 September, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 1,078 views
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    • 29 September, 2022

11. AvMA case study: Stuart's story

    • Coroner
    • Pneumonia
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Coroner
      • Pneumonia
      • Medication
      • Private sector
      • Disability
      • Patient / family support
      • Patient death

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 28 September, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 856 views
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    • 28 September, 2022

12. MedPro Group: Resource lists for risk and patient safety

    • Risk management
    • USA
    • (and 7 more)

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      • Risk management
      • USA
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Emergency medicine
      • Transfer of care
      • LGBTQI
      • Staff safety
      • Health inequalities
      • Health literacy

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 13 September, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 961 views
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    • 13 September, 2022

13. NHS Resolution: Learning from medication errors

    • Negligence claim
    • Medication
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Negligence claim
      • Medication
      • Human error
      • Adminstering medication
      • General Practice
      • Maternity

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 September, 2022

    • 2 comments
    • 2,213 views
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    • Comment by Patient_Safety_Learning
    • 4 November, 2022

14. Surgical error compensation claims as a patient safety indicator: Causes and economic consequences in the Murcia health system, 2002 to 2018 (June 2022)

    • Patient
    • Spain
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient
      • Spain
      • Legal issue
      • Negligence claim
      • Surgery - General

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 24 August, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 891 views
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    • 24 August, 2022

15. Consent: Supported decision-making (The Royal College of Surgeons of England podcasts)

    • Consent
    • Patient
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Consent
      • Patient
      • Doctor
      • Legal issue
      • Decision making

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 January, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 1,350 views
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    • 22 January, 2022

16. NHS litigation reform: Inquiry Response (Patient Safety Learning)

    • Negligence claim
    • Legal issue
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Negligence claim
      • Legal issue
      • Patient / family support
      • Patient harmed
      • Organisational learning
      • Investigation
      • Redress

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 24 November, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 2,040 views
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    • 24 November, 2021

17. NHS Litigation Reform: Inquiry response from AvMA (October 2021)

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 October, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 1,004 views
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    • 20 October, 2021

18. NHS Litigation Reform: Inquiry response from the Association of Personal Injuries Lawyers (October 2021)

    • Negligence claim
    • Legal issue
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Negligence claim
      • Legal issue
      • Patient / family support
      • Investigation
      • Organisational learning

    By Patient Safety Learning, 9 October, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 941 views
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    • 9 October, 2021

19. Approved COVID risk assessment tool

    • Risk assessment
    • Pandemic

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 10 October, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,490 views
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    • 10 October, 2020

20. Science Direct: Safety risk management

    • Risk management
    • Risk assessment
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Risk management
      • Risk assessment
      • System safety
      • Safety behaviour
      • Research

    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 February, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,311 views
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    • 25 February, 2020

21. NHS Resolution: The benefits of supported decision making (consent) - 11 September 2018

    • Consent
    • Decision making
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Consent
      • Decision making
      • Patient engagement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 31 December, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,115 views
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    • 31 December, 2019

22. Do No Harm. Part 1. A devastating diagnosis

    • Patient
    • Relative
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient
      • Relative
      • Behaviour
      • Criminal behaviour
      • Children and Young People
      • Toddler
      • Baby

    By Patient Safety Learning, 6 October, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,820 views
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    • 6 October, 2019