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Ensuring the safety of everyone who comes into contact with health services is one of the most important challenges facing health care today.
The Department's approach and long term strategy for ensuring patient safety in all healthcare settings.
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is a Special Health Authority created to co-ordinate the efforts of all those involved in healthcare, and more importantly to learn from patient safety incidents occurring in the NHS.