Keeping patients safe

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1. A guide for patients and carers: How to keep yourself safer in general practice, pharmacies and when going into and coming out of hospital (March 2023)

   • Patient / family involvement
   • Patient / family support
   • (and 8 more)

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     • Patient / family involvement
     • Patient / family support
     • Patient engagement
     • Medication
     • GP
     • Discharge
     • Post-op period
     • Post-discharge support
     • Carer
     • Patient

   By Patient Safety Learning, 6 June, 2025

   • 1 comment
   • 584 views
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   • Comment by Elaine Freeman
   • 21 September, 2025

2. Navigating regulatory challenges in signal management (13 June 2024)

   By Dr Siva Kumar Buddha, 27 August, 2024

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   • 587 views
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   • Added by Dr Siva Kumar Buddha
   • 27 August, 2024

3. Ambulatory Safety Nets: The power of collaboration and co-design (IHI, 29 February 2024)

   • Diagnosis
   • Patient engagement
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Diagnosis
     • Patient engagement
     • Collaboration
     • USA
     • Person-centred care
     • Cancer

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 March, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 651 views
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   • 22 March, 2024

4. Martha’s rule: a hospital escalation system to save patients’ lives (BMJ, 9 October 2023)

   • Patient engagement
   • Patient / family involvement
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     • Patient engagement
     • Patient / family involvement
     • Deterioration
     • Regulatory issue
     • Patient harmed
     • Implementation
     • Legal issue
     • Staff engagement

   By Patient Safety Learning, 17 October, 2023

   • 0 comments
   • 877 views
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   • 17 October, 2023

5. The involvement of patients and families in a healthcare safety management system: In conversation with Jono Broad

   • Patient engagement
   • Patient / family involvement
   • (and 8 more)

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     • Patient engagement
     • Patient / family involvement
     • Leadership
     • Patient harmed
     • Patient safety incident
     • Reporting
     • System safety
     • Safety process
     • Aviation
     • Organisational culture

   By Patient Safety Learning, 21 February, 2023

   • 1 comment
   • 2,201 views
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   • Comment by Andrew Ottaway
   • 22 March, 2023

6. Lit Health Podcast: Advocating for mom and medical system reform with Steve Burrows (20 January 2023)

   • Patient engagement
   • System safety
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Patient engagement
     • System safety
     • Patient / family involvement
     • Patient death

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 February, 2023

   • 0 comments
   • 775 views
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   • 10 February, 2023

7. Nuffield Trust - Patient-initiated follow-up: will it free up capacity in outpatient care? (4 August 2022)

   • Patient engagement
   • Outpatients
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     • Patient engagement
     • Outpatients
     • Follow up
     • Appointment

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 August, 2022

   • 0 comments
   • 989 views
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   • 8 August, 2022

8. Helen Salisbury: Learning to say no (BMJ, 18 July 2022)

   • Doctor
   • Communication
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     • Doctor
     • Communication
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities

   By Patient Safety Learning, 20 July, 2022

   • 0 comments
   • 1,107 views
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   • 20 July, 2022

9. Visitor behaviors can influence the risk of patient harm: An analysis of patient safety reports from 92 hospitals (June 2022)

   • Patient / family involvement
   • Behaviour
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     • Patient / family involvement
     • Behaviour
     • Risk assessment
     • Research
     • Patient harmed

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 July, 2022

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   • 1,302 views
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   • 8 July, 2022

10. Don't go to the hospital alone: Ensuring safe, highly reliable patient visitation (28 October 2021)

    • Patient / family involvement
    • Human error
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Patient / family involvement
      • Human error
      • Patient safety incident
      • Friend / visitor

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 April, 2022

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    • 1,345 views
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    • 5 April, 2022

11. A series of failures: a relative's story

    • Patient safety incident
    • Patient death
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      • Patient safety incident
      • Patient death
      • Relative
      • Organisational learning
      • Communication problems
      • Transparency
      • Duty of Candour
      • Patient / family involvement
      • Patient / family support
      • Feedback
      • Decision making
      • End of life care

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 January, 2022

    • 3 comments
    • 3,625 views
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    • Comment by Patient Safety Learning
    • 10 February, 2022

12. PEP Health - What patients think 2: Trends and variation in patient experience across hospital trusts in England 2020-21 (21 October 2021)

    • Patient engagement
    • Technology
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Patient engagement
      • Technology
      • Social media
      • Feedback
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 5 November, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 1,490 views
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    • 5 November, 2021

13. Psychotropic medicines in people with learning disabilities – an updated summary of important learning

    • Learning disabilities
    • Medication
    • (and 13 more)

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      • Learning disabilities
      • Medication
      • Patient death
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Knowledge issue
      • Decision making
      • Patient suffering
      • Safety process
      • Safety culture
      • Transparency
      • Accountability
      • Collaboration
      • Community of practice
      • Information sharing
      • Patient engagement

    By Steve Turner, 19 March, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 1,662 views
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    • Added by Steve Turner
    • 19 March, 2021

14. Bereaved families have been used as pawns in a political game (25 February 2021)

    • Patient / family involvement
    • Patient / family support
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      • Patient / family involvement
      • Patient / family support
      • Organisational learning
      • Patient
      • Organisational culture
      • Harmed Care Pathway

    By Patient Safety Learning, 26 February, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 1,343 views
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    • 26 February, 2021

15. How safe is anesthesia? 5 common concerns (18 December 2020)

    • Anaesthesia
    • Patient

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 December, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,220 views
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    • Added by Patient Safety Learning
    • 22 December, 2020

16. Patient Safety Authority: Safety tips for patients

    • Discharge
    • Allergies
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      • Discharge
      • Allergies
      • End of life care
      • Falls
      • Diagnosis
      • Handwashing
      • Influenza / pneumonia
      • Care record
      • Medication
      • Screening
      • Surgery - General
      • Sepsis
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Ulcers / pressure sores
      • Patient engagement
      • Communication

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 November, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,289 views
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    • 18 November, 2020

17. PEP Health. What Patients Think: Trends and variation in patient experience across hospitals in England 2019-20

    • Patient engagement
    • Social media
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      • Patient engagement
      • Social media
      • Patient factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 November, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,788 views
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    • 4 November, 2020

18. FIRST: Family Initiated Rapid Safety Team

    • Patient / family involvement
    • Deterioration
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      • Patient / family involvement
      • Deterioration
      • Recognition

    By Claire Cox, 6 August, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,264 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 6 August, 2020

19. Keeping you safe during your stay in hospital: Patient information leaflet

    • Safety behaviour
    • Patient
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Safety behaviour
      • Patient
      • Patient involvement
      • Patient / family involvement

    By Claire Cox, 5 August, 2020

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    • 1,376 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 5 August, 2020

20. Patient and family-initiated escalation of care: a qualitative systematic review protocol (April 2019)

    • Patient / family involvement
    • Deterioration
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      • Patient / family involvement
      • Deterioration
      • Recognition

    By Claire Cox, 5 August, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,431 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 5 August, 2020

21. Making your stay with us safe: Guys and and Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

    • Patient
    • Patient involvement
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      • Patient
      • Patient involvement
      • Recognition
      • Recommendations
      • Deterioration

    By Claire Cox, 4 August, 2020

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    • 1,802 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 4 August, 2020

22. Making your stay with us safe: Patient information from Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

    • Patient
    • Patient / family involvement
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      • Patient
      • Patient / family involvement
      • Recognition
      • Motivation

    By Claire Cox, 4 August, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,539 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 4 August, 2020

23. Premature discharge from hospital (June 2020)

    • Discharge
    • Patient
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Discharge
      • Patient
      • Patient harmed

    By Claire Cox, 7 July, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,587 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 7 July, 2020

24. GOSH response to error: a blog by Joanne Hughes

    • Patient death
    • Investigation
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Patient death
      • Investigation
      • Patient harmed
      • Patient / family support
      • Omissions

    By Claire Cox, 17 March, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 2,280 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 17 March, 2020

25. Patient activation related to fall prevention: A multisite study

    • Falls
    • Patient engagement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 March, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 1,490 views
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    • 16 March, 2020