World Patient Safety Day 2024: a focus on reducing diagnostic error (by Helen Hughes)

Summary

In this blog for National Voices, Helen Hughes, Chief Executive of the charity Patient Safety Learning, tells us more about World Patient Safety Day 2024 and why this year’s theme of ‘Improving diagnosis for patient safety'’ is so important.

This blog has been published as part of a series for World Patient Safety Day 2024 and the theme of Improving diagnosis for patient safety. #WPSD24, World Patient Safety Day 2024, WPSD 2024.

About the author

Helen Hughes is Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning. Her passion for improved patient safety is informed by personal family insight into the impact of unsafe care and the ineffectiveness of organisational responses to learn from error. Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change.