Patient Safety Commissioner for England update (w/c 26 September 2022)

Summary

This article* is an update from Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England.

Content

The safety of medicines and medical devices is everybody’s business and we all have a part to play

The Patient Safety Commissioner is a new role and, with my small team, we are setting up the office. Thanks very much for your patience while we get up and running.

Thanks very much to everyone who has been in touch this week. My contact details are [email protected].

With many patient safety events in England being postponed I’ve reflected that World Patient Safety Day will be celebrated and prioritised for many weeks this year. With medication safety as this year’s theme it will help to embed the aims of the WHO campaign Know, Check and Ask before you give or receive medicines

This week I was really pleased to meet June Raine to discuss patient safety and patient voice and learn more about how MHRA are responding to the recommendations from IMMDS.

I also met with Rosie Benneyworth and the team at HSIB. With joint ambitions for improving patient safety there are lots of opportunities to listen and learn from patients and families and embed system improvements.

Today I am heading to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust to see how Scan4Safety delivers safer patient care as part of the Leeds Way and the Leeds Improvement method.

*This article was first published on LinkedIn.