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  1. Care settings

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

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    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

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    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

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    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
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  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. ‘Like a horrific board game’: 33 hours inside an NHS in crisis (The Guardian, 13 December 2022)

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  2. Institute for Fiscal Studies: NHS funding, resources and treatment volumes (14 December 2022)

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  3. The King's Fund - Waiting on the waiting list, but what for? (28 November 2022)

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  4. Simple steps to keep you safe during your hospital stay (NHS England, 19 October 2022)

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  5. Toward zero harm: Mackenzie health’s journey toward becoming a high reliability organization and eliminating avoidable harm (October 2022)

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  6. The road to recovery: Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme annual report 2022 (10 November 2022)

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  7. John Launer: When outpatient appointments are put on hold (BMJ, 19 October 2022)

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  8. Experience of learning from everyday work in daily safety huddles - a multi-method study (30 August 2022)

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  9. ‘A horrible winter lies ahead’: next PM will inherit an NHS on its knees (29 August 2022)

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  10. Nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia: A call to action (9 June 2021)

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  11. Blog - Hospital-acquired pneumonia is killing patients. Yet there is a simple way to stop it (12 July 2022)

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  12. The Korea national patient safety incidents inquiry survey: Characteristics of adverse events identified through medical records review in regional public hospitals (August 2022)

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  13. What are the impending threats to the NHS this autumn? (Guardian, 9 August 2022)

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  14. Preventing unrecognised oesophageal intubation: a consensus guideline from the Project for Universal Management of Airways and international airway societies (17 August 2022)

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  15. Northern Ireland inpatient, day case and outpatient hospital statistics for 2021/22 (4 August 2022)

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  16. Challenges in implementing government-directed VTE guidance for medical patients: a mixed methods study (6 November 2012)

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  17. University of Birmingham - Forecasting the NHS waiting list in England: 2022-30 (27 June 2022)

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  18. Provisional publication of Never Events reported as occurring between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022

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  19. Patient safety animation - patient perspectives (16 May 2022)

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  20. Nuffield Trust: NHS patients are more likely to die – it is right to ask why (6 May 2022)

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  21. An alternative European perspective (Roger Steer, February 2022)

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  22. Blog - 12 tips for communicating with deaf patients

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  23. The impact of the pandemic on vaccination programmes: a blog for World Immunisation Week

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  24. Are all medical errors now crimes? The nurse Vaught verdict (13 April 2022)

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  25. Number of vacant NHS hospital beds falls to lowest level since start of pandemic (17 April 2022)

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