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  1. Care settings

    • 393 articles
    General Optical Council: Commercial practices and patient safety in the primary eye care sector (23 September 2026)
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  2. Conditions

    • 442 articles
    Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed (The Guardian, 24 September 2026)
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  3. Diagnosis

    • 146 articles
    Diagnostic safety issue briefs (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
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  4. High risk areas

    • 917 articles
    Understanding black maternal mental health in the UK: Findings from the Black Maternity Experiences Report (Five X More)
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  5. Learning disabilities

    Topic lead Sebastian Gonzalez
    • 131 articles
    How the reasonable adjustment digital flag can help identify and support people with a learning disability
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  6. Medication

    Topic lead James Andrews
    • 306 articles
    Migraine and mental health: Heads I win, minds you lose
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  7. Mental health

    Topic lead Deborah Dover
    • 253 articles
    Eating disorders: Doctors and patients left in “nightmare situation” amid long waits, unsafe care, and preventable deaths (BMJ, 11 September 2026)
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  8. Men's health

    • 32 articles
    The King's Fund: Talking about men’s health (17 June 2026)
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  9. Patient management

    • 309 articles
    We need to talk about maternal sepsis (by Amy Breslin)
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  10. Social care

    • 45 articles
    The King's Fund: Social care 360 (8 April 2026)
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  11. Transitions of care

    • 68 articles
    The discharge gap: when hospital care ends
    Latest comment by Risa Mallory,

  12. Women's health

    Topic lead Aditi Desai
    • 319 articles
    Experiences of vaginal access procedures - TIGER UK survey: Report 1
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141 articles in this category

  1. JCI Patient Safety Pathways Grand Rounds Webinar - Safe care for non-communicable diseases: safe care for life! (10 September 2026)

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  2. ‘No man’s land’: the experience of patients at the interface between health and social care (2 June 2026)

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  3. Patient safety in the NHS (produced by Ethos - Stuart Harrison)

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  4. Delayed discharges: A symptom of the challenges facing health and social care (8 January 2025)

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  5. Infographic on choking incidents in the HSE and or HSE funded services (21 November 2025)

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  6. Health care system adaptation and resilience during the wildfire crisis (19 March 2025)

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  7. Adverse diagnostic events in hospitalised patients: a single-centre, retrospective cohort study (1 October 2024)

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    • 918 views

  8. A framework for the analysis of communication errors in health care (March 2025)

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  9. House of Commons Debate – Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (16 January 2025)

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  10. Rates of patient safety indicators in Belgian hospitals were low but generally higher than in US hospitals, 2016–18 (September 2024)

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  11. The safety of outpatient health care: Review of Electronic Health Records (7 May 2024)

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    • 943 views

  12. Patient Safety Rights in the NHS in England (John Tingle and Angela Eggleton, 10 May 2024)

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  13. Never Events: The Big Debate

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  14. Never Events and their management (12 July 2019)

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  15. Beware these risks when you’re in the hospital

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  16. Importance of professionals’ English language proficiency on patient experience and safety (29 February 2024)

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  17. Healthwatch: Open letter to Royal Mail about the delivery of NHS letters (27 February 2024)

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  18. Association between daily toothbrushing and hospital-acquired pneumonia (18 December 2023)

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  19. Andrew Ward team recognised for improving patient safety by reducing number of patient falls (30 January 2024)

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  20. Times Health Commission: A report into the state of health and social care in Britain today (5 February 2024)

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  21. How to prevent and manage adverse healthcare events, with Gordon Caldwell (24 January 2024)

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  22. Times of multiple crises: Reasons and ways to keep patient safety on the agenda (October 2023)

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  23. Tackling the elective backlog: A spotlight report on the implementation and impact of surgical hubs and community diagnostic centres (6 November 2023)

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  24. RCEM acute insight series: Crowding and its consequences (RCEM, November 2021)

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  25. The Health Foundation: NHS waiting list to peak at more than 8 million by summer 2024 (27 October 2023)

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