All Patient safety articles – Page 145
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NewsNHS can be 'world leader' on patient safety, say healthcare leaders
The NHS can be a ‘world leader’ in many areas of patient safety but only if it starts taking immediate action to improve, healthcare leaders have said in a report published by HSJ today.
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NewsExclusive: Providers expected to use unofficial NICE staffing guidance
NHS providers may have to increase the number of nurses in emergency departments after regulators and the Department of Health suggested trusts need to consider new safe staffing evidence from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.
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NewsExclusive: Trusts threaten to quit negligence scheme
At least 17 NHS trusts are considering opting out of the national risk pool for clinical negligence claims, HSJ has learned.
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NewsOutdated ambulance sat navs contributed to patient deaths
Ambulance delays due to out of date satellite navigation systems could have contributed to two patient deaths, according to incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System.
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SupplementsPatient leaders are the powerful voice that drives change
Using their personal experience
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NewsExclusive: Plan to combine regulators and safety in single 'new body'
Many of the functions of Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority are expected to be brought together in a single ‘new body’, which would also take on new patient safety and improvement work, HSJ has been told.
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NewsNICE director: NHS England 'didn't like answer' on safe staffing
A senior figure at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has suggested NHS England scrapped its work on safe staffing guidance because it ‘didn’t like the answer to the question’.
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CommentFind the right way to listen: the importance of getting down with the kids
Help them have their say
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NewsRevealed: 2015 winners of the Patient Safety Awards
Celebrating innovative and creative initiatives
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NewsKeogh named HSJ's top clinical leader for 2015
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh has been ranked number one in HSJ’s top Clinical Leaders list for the third time.
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NewsBig week at HSJ celebrating excellent leadership and safe care
This is a week packed full of events at HSJ as we announce the winners of the Patient Safety Awards, and name this year’s Clinical Leaders, Best Places to Work, and our inaugural Patient Leaders.
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NewsConcerns NHS England safe staffing guide for mental health 'lacks rigour'
Experts have criticised NHS England’s latest safe staffing guidance on mental health inpatient care, raising concerns that the model used ‘lacks rigour’.
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NewsExclusive: 'Candour' law may change after legal threat
The government is considering changing the duty of candour law just three months after it came into effect, following a threat of judicial review by a patient charity, HSJ can reveal.