Professionalising patient safety

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1. Webinar: Parallel planets or partners? Professional regulation and a systems approach to patient safety (14 May 2026)

   • Regulatory issue
   • System safety

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 May

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   • 18 May

2. Professional regulation and patient safety: parallel systems or purposeful partners?

   • Regulatory issue
   • Standards
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Regulatory issue
     • Standards
     • Transparency
     • Accountability
     • Workforce management
     • Risk management
     • Ethics

   By MFletcher, 30 April

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   • 706 views
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   • 30 April

3. Reimagining healthcare regulation to enable improvement, learning, and safety (BMJ, 31 March 2026)

   • Regulatory issue
   • Non-compliance
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Regulatory issue
     • Non-compliance
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Resources / Organisational management
     • Accountability

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 April

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   • 245 views
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   • 10 April

4. Professional regulation and patient safety systems: parallel planets or partners in improvement?

   • Standards
   • Regulatory issue
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Standards
     • Regulatory issue
     • Australia
     • System safety
     • Transformation
     • Data
     • Accountability

   By MFletcher, 5 November, 2025

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   • 1,148 views
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   • 5 November, 2025

5. The Patient Safety Management Network 4 years on: "Not just a network but a movement"

   • Collaboration
   • Teamwork
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Collaboration
     • Teamwork
     • PSIRF
     • Information sharing
     • Staff support
     • Staff engagement
     • Implementation
     • Psychological safety

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 June, 2025

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   • 18 June, 2025

6. A management code of conduct must contain more than good intentions (HSJ, 5 March 2025)

   • Regulatory issue
   • Leadership
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Regulatory issue
     • Leadership
     • Standards
     • Accountability
     • Transparency

   By Patient Safety Learning, 11 March, 2025

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   • 11 March, 2025

7. The Patient Safety Management Network yearly round up: Claire Cox reflects on 2024

   • Collaboration
   • PSIRF
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Collaboration
     • PSIRF
     • Staff support
     • Staff engagement
     • Implementation
     • Information sharing

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 December, 2024

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   • 18 December, 2024

8. “We’ve created an incredible pool of talented safety people who are up for collaboration.” Marking three years of the Patient Safety Management Network

   • Collaboration
   • PSIRF
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Collaboration
     • PSIRF
     • Teamwork
     • Feedback
     • Information sharing
     • Implementation
     • Staff engagement
     • Staff support

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 2 July, 2024

   • 3 comments
   • 4,439 views
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   • Comment by Jonathan
   • 5 July, 2024

9. Making care safer for all: a manifesto for change (Professional Standards Authority, 12 March 2024)

   • Regulatory issue
   • Standards
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Regulatory issue
     • Standards
     • Policies / Protocols / Procedures
     • Healthcare

   By Patient Safety Learning, 19 April, 2024

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   • 633 views
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   • 19 April, 2024

10. BMA: Safe Scope of Practice for Medical Associate Professionals (7 March 2024)

    • Physician associate
    • Skill-based issue
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Skill-based issue
      • Regulatory issue
      • Transparency
      • Staff factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 7 March, 2024

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    • 1,433 views
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    • 7 March, 2024

11. Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: Position Statement on Physician Associates in the UK (16 January 2024)

    • Physician associate
    • Standards
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Standards
      • Regulatory issue
      • Skill-based issue

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 January, 2024

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    • 18 January, 2024

12. ‘I’m not a doctor’: the role physician associates play within NHS (The Guardian, 18 January 2024)

    • Physician associate
    • Skills
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Physician associate
      • Skills
      • Additional staff required
      • Staff support
      • Workforce management

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 January, 2024

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    • 18 January, 2024

13. NHS Employers: Clinical supervision models for registered professionals (1 December 2022)

    • Leadership
    • Staff support
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Leadership
      • Staff support
      • Personal development
      • Training

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 September, 2023

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    • 1,547 views
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    • 5 September, 2023

14. The voices of the patient safety frontline – the Patient Safety Management Network two years on

    • Staff support
    • Communication
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Staff support
      • Communication
      • Information sharing
      • Collaboration
      • PSIRF
      • Innovation
      • Safety culture

    By Claire Cox, 7 August, 2023

    • 1 comment
    • 4,822 views
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    • Comment by Jason
    • 11 March, 2024

15. New horizons: What can England learn from the professionalisation of care workers in other countries? (Nuffield Trust, 13 September 2022)

    • Carer
    • Social Care
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Carer
      • Social Care
      • Regulatory issue
      • Skills
      • Low income countries

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 September, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 1,009 views
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    • 14 September, 2022

16. The Future Doctor Programme: A co-created vision for the future clinical team (Health Education England)

    • Doctor
    • Training
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Doctor
      • Training
      • Students
      • Leadership
      • Health education
      • Workforce management

    By Patient Safety Learning, 23 August, 2022

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    • 1,521 views
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    • 23 August, 2022

17. Patient Safety Management Network – the time is now: presentation from Helen Hughes, Claire Cox, Jordan Nichols

    • Patient safety / risk management leads
    • Leadership
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Patient safety / risk management leads
      • Leadership
      • Collaboration

    By Patient Safety Learning, 31 May, 2022

    • 0 comments
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    • 31 May, 2022

18. Training courses - Enhancing performance, improving care

    • Training
    • Staff support
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Training
      • Staff support
      • Staff engagement
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 23 May, 2022

    • 0 comments
    • 1,371 views
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    • 23 May, 2022

19. The role of the Medical Device Safety Officer: presentation from Bev Curtis

    • Medical device
    • Patient safety incident
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Medical device
      • Patient safety incident
      • Accountability
      • Reporting

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 May, 2021

    • 0 comments
    • 1,155 views
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    • 1 May, 2021

20. Medical Device Safety Officer Handbook: The first stop for professional medical device advice

    • Medical device
    • Staff support

    By Patient Safety Learning, 7 May, 2020

    • 0 comments
    • 5,344 views
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    • 7 May, 2020

21. Nurses' role in communication and patient safety

    • Communication problems
    • Nurse

    By Swoo, 14 November, 2019

    • 1 comment
    • 2,830 views
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    • Comment by Patient Safety Learning
    • 14 November, 2019

22. Professionalism in support of pediatric cardio-thoracic surgery: A case of a bright young surgeon (October 2011)

    • Leadership
    • Human error
    • (and 7 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Leadership
      • Human error
      • Paediatrics
      • Medicine - Cardiology
      • Complaint
      • Data
      • Research
      • Risk management
      • Teamwork

    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 October, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,197 views
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    • 13 October, 2019

23. Blog: A call for action – approach is as vital as know how

    • Leadership
    • Organisational culture
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Leadership
      • Organisational culture
      • Communication
      • Feedback

    By Patient Safety Learning, 8 October, 2019

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    • 8 October, 2019

24. Aseptic Non Touch Technique (ANTT) (February 2018)

    By Claire Cox, 20 September, 2019

    • 0 comments
    • 1,471 views
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    • Added by Claire Cox
    • 20 September, 2019