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Patient safety
Improving patient safety involves assessing how patients could be harmed, preventing or managing risks, reporting and analysing incidents, learning from such incidents and implementing solutions to minimise the likelihood of them reoccurring.
The role of patient safety
The Department of Health’s White Paper, Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, puts safety services at the heart of its proposals. The supporting consultation document on the development of an outcomes framework also has patient safety as a key focus.… Read more →The role of patient safety
Published: July 25, 2011
