Institute for Healthcare Improvement: A call for patient safety equity in the Danish prison and probation service (26 August 2021)

Summary

This article, published by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, discusses some of the key patient safety issues in the Danish Prison and Probation Service. The author, Christian Vestergaard, a Medical Advisor with the Danish Society for Patient Safety, highlights differences in approaches to patient safety in prisons compared to other areas of healthcare provision in Denmark and stresses the need for action to improve the safety of care in these settings.