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

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  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)

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

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  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)

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

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

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  7. AvMA case study: Chloe's story

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  8. AvMA case study: Lyndsey's story

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  9. AvMA case study: Rod's story

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  10. AvMA case study: Heather's story

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  11. AvMA case study: Stuart's story

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

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  13. NHS Resolution: Learning from medication errors

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

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

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

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

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

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  19. Approved COVID risk assessment tool

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  20. Science Direct: Safety risk management

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

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

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