All Patient safety articles – Page 3
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026: Primary Care Safety Initiative of the Year
WINNER OxSTaR (University of Oxford), Castle Gardens Surgery, and The Royal College of Paramedics MAGIC: The Management of Acute Emergencies in GP Surgeries Using In-situ Simulation and Checklists
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026: Quality Improvement Initiative of the Year
WINNER Central and North West London FT A Collaborative Approach to Improving Patient Safety in CNWL Mental Health Inpatients
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026: Safety Improvement Through Technology Award
WINNER University Hospitals Birmingham FT Alfa Controlled Drug Software
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026: Staff Wellbeing Initiative of the Year
WINNER Modality Partnership Wellbeing as a Safety Strategy: Embedding Psychological Safety Across 55 Sites
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026: Surgical Care Safety Initiative of the Year
WINNER West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals Trust Quest Prehab Digital Prehabilitation
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HSJ AwardsHSJ Patient Safety Awards 2026: Early-Stage Patient Safety Innovation of the Year
WINNER Kent and Medway Mental Health Trust MRAP – Minimal Risk Activity Packs
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CommentAccessible comms are a duty not a courtesy
Accessible communication isn’t an administrative bonus – it is a core clinical duty that directly impacts patient safety, dignity, and NHS efficiency
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The appearance of action without improving safety
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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CommentBlame is not the same as accountability
The Thirlwall Inquiry exposes a fatal failure to investigate harm. Rebuilding patient safety requires truth, not scapegoating
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NewsTrust faces decade-long review after hundreds of harm cases discovered
More than 300 cases of patient harm have been identified at a North East trust reviewing major care and governance failings in its breast cancer service.
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NewsTech problem delays elective reform target
Concerns have been raised about NHS England watering down a key target for its controversial “advice and guidance” scheme, just weeks ahead of the October deadline.
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NewsJudge to examine trust’s care failings
Government has named a chair for its public inquiry into care and governance failings at a mental health trust – nine months after the probe was promised.
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NewsInquiry chief delivers scathing verdict on NHS managers
Too many managers do not meet the standards expected of them, and there is an “urgent” need to improve quality, a major inquiry has found.
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NewsTougher sanctions on senior managers demanded by Letby inquiry
The government must introduce a statutory barring system for managers by September next year, an inquiry has said – but warned it will only work if trusts are more willing to confront serious misconduct.
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NewsGrasp ‘politically unpopular’ mergers or face more deaths
Politically unpopular and “very difficult” decisions are required to tackle rising maternal death rates and improve safety, a leading academic has warned.
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NewsExclusive: First AI clinical negligence claims lodged
The NHS has received its first clinical negligence claims related to the use of artificial intelligence, HSJ can reveal.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The good, the moving-the-deck-chairs, and the positively bad
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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CommentWhy you should worry when a tech supplier goes quiet
Patient safety depends on suppliers that several trusts share. When one fails, the first sign may be silence rather than an alert, and the reporting clocks start only once somebody notices. Peers are amending the cyber bill this month
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NewsExclusive: Hundreds sacked for snooping on patient records
More than 200 NHS staff have been sacked and around 2,000 others sanctioned for inappropriately viewing patient records over the past five years, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalSecond trust’s delay telling Southport victims of data breaches was ‘appalling’
An ambulance trust waited nearly two months before informing victims of the 2024 Southport attack that their patient records may have been accessed inappropriately by staff, HSJ has discovered.