Partners in progress: Patient safety in the UK (2021)

Summary

This chapter from Lucian Leape's book Making Healthcare Safe: The Story of the Patient Safety Movement examines the history of the patient safety movement in the UK. It looks at Chief Medical Officer Liam Donaldson's publication of An organisation with a memory, the establishment and subsequent reorganisation of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) and other patient safety efforts by the Government across the UK.