All Patient safety articles – Page 2
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Patient Involvement in Safety Award
WINNER North London FT Empowering Young Voices: The Heart of Our CYPMH Services
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Patient Safety Education and Training Award
WINNER Royal Surrey FT The frailty academy: transforming safety and quality of care for older people through a comprehensive interdisciplinary whole system education and training programme
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Patient Safety Pilot Project of the Year
WINNER Frimley Health FT Improving infusion safety, reducing infiltration utilising infusion surveillance
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Patient Safety Team of the Year
WINNER Star Lane Medical Centre and North East London Training Hub Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Team (PSQIT)
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Primary Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER Star Lane Medical Centre and North East London Training Hub Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Team (PSQIT)
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year
WINNER Oxleas FT Utilising quality improvement methodology to reduce Did Not Attends in healthcare within a UK prison
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Safety Improvement Through Technology Award
WINNER Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells Trust Safety in Real Time: Transforming Patient Safety through our Digital Quality Oversight System
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
WINNER Humber Health Partnership Psychological Safety for Internationally Educated Colleagues or The Wellbeing of International Nurses
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Urgent and Emergency Care Safety Initiative of the Year
WINNER Nottingham University Hospitals Trust The Respiratory Rough Sleepers Virtual Ward
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2025: Virtual or Remote Care Initiative of the Year
WINNER Norfolk and Norwich University FT Hyperemesis and Virtual Ward
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NewsFourteen maternity investigation trusts named
Fourteen trusts are to be subject to a government-commissioned investigation into maternity service quality, it was announced today.
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NewsReview finds nine infant deaths at trust ‘potentially avoidable’
A trust has apologised after an external review into maternity failures concluded that nine neonatal deaths may have been avoidable.
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CommentICB cuts are endangering patient safety
Reforms to integrated care boards could lead to thousands of registered nurses being made redundant and a downgrading of nursing leadership, writes Patricia Marquis
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News‘Outstanding’ hospital drops two ratings
A hospital which was rated “outstanding” has been downgraded to “requires improvement” after inspectors raised concerns about staffing and delays to patients being clinically assessed.
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NewsHospital wrongly rated ‘outstanding’ for six years
A leading hospital has been stripped of its “outstanding” rating, which the Care Quality Commission says was mistakenly awarded six years ago.
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Expert BriefingImPatient: Passion and loss
Patient (Lived Experience) Leadership is about those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability who want to influence change through being equal partners in decision making. In this monthly expert briefing, patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the ...
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NewsMaternity services isolated from trust boards, watchdog warns
The safety watchdog has raised fresh concerns about NHS maternity services in a new review, warning that harm has been normalised within units that are working “in parallel” to trusts.
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NewsNo resident doctors strikes in August, says Streeting
The British Medical Association has agreed to pause strike action for the “month of August”, according to the health secretary.
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NewsBMA ‘demanding extortionate pay’ during strikes
The British Medical Association expects trusts to pay “extortionate” rates for resident doctors asked to run services during the current strike, according to NHS England.
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NewsTrusts accused of ‘lack of planning’ after strike exemption requests
The British Medical Association has accused several trusts of a “dangerous lack of planning” and flawed exemption requests, as they sought to maintain more planned care during the ongoing resident doctor strikes.