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Patient Safety and NHS Trusts – Does the future look bright?

After the publication of a report on 16 th February by Action Against Medical Accidents (AvMA) - Adding Insult to Injury - NHS failure to implement patient safety alerts , there has been a lot of media attention in the last couple of days around this...

Published Wed, Feb 17 2010 13:19 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, patient safety, NPSA, NHS Trusts, CQC, patient safety incidents
Should quality goals determine financial strategies within the NHS?

A recent article in Health Service Journal (HSJ) highlighted the contrast between achieving quality and financial goals within the healthcare sector. The article illustrated how the recent media coverage about hospitals under performing and their patient...

Published Thu, Dec 10 2009 16:53 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, quality, patient safety, NHS budgets
Patient safety: Mandatory reporting of harm and death during treatment from April 2010

According to an article in The Observer (Sunday 6 December 2009) ministers have decided to impose a legally binding duty of openness on the NHS in England in a bid to improve patient safety. From April 2010, all trusts in England – hospitals, primary...

Published Wed, Dec 9 2009 9:20 by StuartEmslie

Tags: healthcare, NHS, safety, governance, NPSA, Observer, death, treatment, harm, patient
Risk Management - creating a culture of safety within the NHS

In today’s Health Service Journal, an article on risk management within the healthcare sector states the best approach to risk management is to establish a safety culture throughout an organisation. Risk and Safety Management within a hospital is...

Published Tue, Nov 17 2009 17:05 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, WHO, Surgical Safety Checklist, patient safety, NPSA, NHS Trusts, Risk and Safety Management, NRLS
Draft regulations for registration system in England breathe new life into clinical governance

The new registration system for health and adult social care in England is described in a post below. Readers might like to note that the draft regulations that will, when finalised and published, set the legal standards framework for registration, require...

Published Sun, Nov 1 2009 8:22 by StuartEmslie

Tags: NHS, England, regulations, clinical governance, draft
Fertility Lab errors cause concern

Today‘s Guardian Newspaper sees the publication of a story about IVF fertility lab errors, with some women fearing their baby may not be their own. Read the article in full here. Although cases of this happening may be few and far between, it further...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 12:31 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, fertility, fertility clinics, Incident Management, incident inspection reports, clinical incidents, HFEA
NPSA publishes latest organisational patient safety incident reports

The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has published 'Organisational Patient Safety Incident Reports' for NHS organisations across England and Wales. The reports summarise incidents reported by staff that have occurred between October 2008 and March...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2009 15:50 by StuartEmslie

Tags: NHS, patient safety, NPSA, Stuart Emslie, National Patient Safety Agency, Incident Reports
UK National Reporting and Learning System “limited in its effectiveness”

The Department of Health in England has published the Government’s response to the Health Select Committee Report ‘Patient Safety.’ Amongst other things, the Committee looked at the ongoing problems with development of the National Reporting and Learning...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2009 15:48 by StuartEmslie

Tags: NHS, patient safety, Health Select Committee, National Reporting and Learning System, Stuart Emslie
New edition of ‘The retention and storage of pathological records and specimens (4th edition, 2009)’ published

The retention and storage of pathological records and specimens (4th edition, 2009) has just been released. The text has been updated to take account of modifications in practice arising from laboratories’ experience of implementing procedures for...

Published Mon, Oct 26 2009 9:30 by Bubonic

Tags: NHS, pathology, biomedicine, specimens, retention, records, data protection, Human Tissue Act
Fertility sector comes under scrutiny

With the recent publication on 1 st October 2009 of the 8th Edition HFEA Code of Practice came the news that the regulatory body is now publishing incident inspection reports for the first time. "The inspection reports for all grade A incidents will be...

Published Tue, Oct 20 2009 17:30 by LornaE

Tags: NHS, HFEA Code of Practice, fertility, Incident Management, incident inspection reports, HFEA legislation

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