All Patient safety articles
See all articles with this subject.
-
Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Much-needed taskforce inspires cautious optimism for change
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
-
HSJ PartnersHow consultants can integrate at-home cancer care into private pathways
For private consultants, integrating cancer treatment at home is not about relinquishing control – it is about extending the reach of clinical practice. It offers a way to deliver systemic anticancer therapies (SACT) and supportive care in patients’ homes under strict governance frameworks, keeping the consultant as the primary decision-maker.
-
CommentThe NHS’s ‘exhausted’ safety champions need greater support
A decade after the Freedom to Speak Up guardian role was first mandated following the Mid Staffordshire inquiry, the movement faces a defining moment
-
Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Making ‘advice and guidance’ mandatory
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by primary care correspondent Caitlin Tilley.
-
Expert BriefingThe Download: Is it safe?
The weekly newsletter that unpacks system leaders’ priorities for digital technology and the impact they are having on delivering health services. This week, written by Ben Clover. Contact HSJ in confidence here.
-
NewsTrust-commissioned maternity review cancelled by Streeting
A review commissioned by Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust to investigate its perinatal mortality rate has been cancelled following an intervention by the health secretary, HSJ understands.
-
CommentThe silent drift towards increased cyber risk in the NHS
The NHS is in the middle of a quiet but consequential shift in how cyber risk is assessed
-
Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Baroness Amos’ interim report sparks a sense of déjà vu
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
-
CommentThe safety gap in NHS cancer care
Hereditary cancer risk often goes unreviewed in NHS care, exposing patients to avoidable harm without clear accountability structures in place
-
NewsNew health minister appointed
The government has appointed an MP who has campaigned on patient safety to be the new public health and prevention minister.
-
NewsNew chief for world-famous hospital
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children has announced its new chief executive.
-
HSJ PartnersImplementing the Rare Diseases Action Plan: learnings from amyloidosis care
Networked models of care have the potential to provide better access to specialist care for rare diseases in the NHS. The government committed to establishing an innovative networked model of care for amyloidosis in the England Rare Diseases Action Plan 2024.1 Successful roll-out could address inequities in care for amyloidosis ...
-
NewsNHSE warns coroners about relying on trusts’ safety reports
Coroners should not rely on trusts’ safety reports as primary or sole evidence for an inquest, NHS England has said, amid concerns some deaths deemed “avoidable” are not even being investigated under the national safety framework.
-
NewsMerging watchdog into CQC will ‘destroy’ independence
The influential MP who first proposed setting up a safety investigations watchdog for the NHS has warned health and social care secretary Wes Streeting that merging the body into the Care Quality Commission would be “fundamentally wrong”.
-
NewsHospitals must update 100,000 pacemakers after safety fault
Hospitals are having to update more than 100,000 patients’ pacemakers – and replace hundreds of the devices – after the manufacturer discovered their batteries run down years early, HSJ has learned.
-
CommentSuccessful tech business cases do not have to offer cash savings
Humber Teaching Foundation Trust’s new EPR delivered no cash savings – by design. Lee Rickles, its chief information officer, argues the real return lies in clinical time, safety and user experience, not balance sheet gains
-
NewsFamilies fear ‘cycle of diagnosis without delivery’ over maternity review
Poor accountability and familiar systemic failures were highlighted in the latest report from the government’s “rapid” maternity review – leading bereaved families to warn against it becoming “another cycle of diagnosis without delivery”.
-
NewsNHS cyber security boss steps down
NHS England’s head of cyber security is leaving after a challenging period for the sector.
-
CommentTackling race inequality in maternity care
The UK faces stark racial maternity inequalities; new initiatives, better data, and anti-racism efforts aim to improve safety and access
-
NewsTrust accused of ‘union busting’ in dispute with nurses
A trust has been accused of “union busting” in a prolonged row over controversial plans to “fire and rehire” nurses in the intensive care unit at one of its hospitals.