Knitted items – potential for harm to babies? (2018)

Summary

This safety article aims to outline the actions taken by the patient safety team at NHS Improvement in response to a reported incident and to highlight potential for harm to babies from knitted items.

Related reading on the hub:

• Finger injuries from infant mittens; a continuing but preventable hazard (April 1996)
• Notes from a Patient Safety Education Network discussion on a similar incident. (This is a group for UK hub members involved in patient safety education/training in their organisations and members of the hub can join by emailing [email protected].)