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1. Under-pressure boards abandon curiosity for grip at their peril (23 February 2026)

   • Board member
   • Leadership

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 March

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   • 12 March

2. Board assurance: What do we know? How do we know we know it? (25 February 2026)

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   • Knowledge issue
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     • Knowledge issue
     • Leadership

   By Patient Safety Learning, 2 March

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   • 2 March

3. NHS England: The NHS Performance Assessment Framework for 2025/26

   • Leadership
   • Organisational Performance
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     • Leadership
     • Organisational Performance
     • Assessment
     • Integrated Care Board (ICB)

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 March, 2025

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   • 27 March, 2025

4. Greater than the sum of its parts? Sharing board leadership between NHS trusts (NHS Confederation, 6 November 2024)

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     • Board member
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Collaboration

   By Patient Safety Learning, 26 November, 2024

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   • 26 November, 2024

5. Taking safety on board: the board’s role in patient safety (The Health Foundation, 2013)

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   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 27 May, 2024

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   • 27 May, 2024

6. 'Don't be captured by the CEO': the secrets of being a good chair (26 April 2024)

   • Board member
   • Accountability
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     • Board member
     • Accountability
     • Leadership
     • Collaboration
     • Communication

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 April, 2024

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   • 29 April, 2024

7. Framework for conducting annual appraisals of NHS chairs (21 March 2024)

   • Board member
   • Staff factors
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     • Board member
     • Staff factors
     • Training
     • Appraisals

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 28 April, 2024

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   • 28 April, 2024

8. NHS England: NHS leadership competency framework for board members (28 February 2024)

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   • Standards
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     • Standards
     • Leadership
     • Competence
     • Skills

   By Patient Safety Learning, 1 March, 2024

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   • 1 March, 2024

9. Refocus your board’s attention on quality and patient safety (27 September 2023)

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   • Leadership

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 29 January, 2024

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   • 29 January, 2024

10. Lucy Letby: Shuffling deckchairs will not work. By Roger Kline (23 January 2024)

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    • Leadership
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      • Leadership
      • Organisational culture
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Transparency

    By Patient Safety Learning, 24 January, 2024

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    • 24 January, 2024

11. Effective governance for quality and patient safety: Skills and role (Canadian Patient Safety Institute)

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    • Skills
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      • Board member
      • Skills
      • Quality improvement
      • Accountability
      • Leadership

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 20 January, 2024

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    • 20 January, 2024

12. Monitor: The role of boards in improving patient safety (2010)

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    • Patient safety strategy
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      • Leadership
      • Patient safety strategy
      • Organisational culture
      • Quality improvement
      • Organisational Performance
      • Board member

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 January, 2024

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    • 18 January, 2024

13. NHS England: Fit and Proper Person Test for Board members (2 August 2023)

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    • Standards
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      • Standards
      • Board member
      • Organisational culture
      • Competence

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 August, 2023

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    • 3 August, 2023

14. Roles and behaviours of diligent and dynamic healthcare boards (14 November 2019)

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    • Board member
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      • Leadership
      • Board member
      • Research
      • Organisational Performance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 June, 2023

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    • 14 June, 2023

15. Improving patient safety: a financial imperative (Helen Hughes, 17 March 2023)

    • Non-clinical director
    • Funding
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      • Non-clinical director
      • Funding
      • Financial Incentives
      • Negligence claim
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Patient harmed
      • Organisational culture
      • Leadership

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 May, 2023

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    • 17 May, 2023

16. Strengthening NHS board diversity (NHS Confederation, 15 June 2021)

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    • Diversity
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      • Board member
      • Diversity
      • Recruitment
      • Health inequalities
      • England

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 April, 2023

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    • 29 April, 2023

17. NHS Providers board development programme

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    • Training
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      • Training
      • Personal development
      • Organisational development
      • UK

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 February, 2023

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    • 15 February, 2023

18. Draft Code of governance for NHS provider trusts (May 2022)

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    • Code of conduct
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      • Standards
      • Code of conduct
      • Leadership
      • Board member
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Clinical governance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 June, 2022

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    • 5 June, 2022

19. Consumer background and composition on state medical boards: Who are these citizen members and do they adequately protect the public? (1 November 2021)

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    • USA
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      • USA
      • Research

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 November, 2021

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    • 10 November, 2021

20. Walking the talk: Board actions that enable improvement - a blog (20 October 2021)

    • Quality improvement
    • Staff support
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      • Quality improvement
      • Staff support
      • Collaboration
      • Teamwork
      • England

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 26 October, 2021

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    • 26 October, 2021

21. Good Governance Institute: Quality assurance maturity matrix for boards (23 September 2021)

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    • Dashboard
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      • Dashboard
      • Organisational Performance
      • Leadership

    By Patient Safety Learning, 24 September, 2021

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    • 24 September, 2021

22. NHS Providers: Trust-wide improvement (September 2021)

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    • Board member
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      • Board member
      • Organisational culture
      • Staff engagement
      • Quality improvement
      • Accountability

    By Sam, 10 September, 2021

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    • 10 September, 2021

23. Good Governance Institute: A new approach to patient safety for the NHS (May 2021)

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    • Leadership
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      • Board member
      • Leadership
      • Psychological safety
      • Just Culture
      • Collaboration
      • Patient safety strategy

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 May, 2021

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    • 17 May, 2021

24. Leading for Health. Developing boards and senior teams: the how to do it guide (October 2010)

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    • Leadership
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      • Leadership
      • Team leadership
      • Personal development

    By Patient Safety Learning, 7 January, 2021

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    • 7 January, 2021

25. NHS Leadership Academy: The Healthy NHS Board 2013. Principles for good governance

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    • Board member
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      • Leadership
      • Board member
      • Clinical governance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 September, 2020

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    • 1 September, 2020