Insulin: supporting safe self-administration for patients in the community with a mental health...

This investigation explores risks to patient safety for patients in the community who self-administer insulin and who may be at increased risk of harm because of their circumstances. We have also...

Norway provides safer AND cheaper healthcare than the UK – we ...

Jeremy Hunt argues that closing the UK's patient safety gap must become a core national priority, with new data showing tens of thousands of deaths could be prevented by matching the performance of...

Cuts to ICBs could ‘exacerbate’ patchy patient safety oversight

There are concerns that the cuts to ICB running costs are ‘likely to exacerbate already patchy oversight and support’ on patient safety

Merged agency must keep board, Streeting told

Three patient safety groups - one chaired by former health secretary Jeremy Hunt - are calling for the patient safety watchdog to retain its independence when it is absorbed into the Care Quality...

HSSIB impact: life-saving difference for acute aortic dissection patients

To mark Global Aortic Dissection Awareness Day, Gareth Owens from the national patient charity blogs about the impact two HSSIB reports have had, with hundreds more people now receiving life-saving...

Corridor care ‘new normal’ in England for one in five NHS inpatients

Findings of CQC survey from November 2024 lead experts to say waiting in such settings has become normalised

Failing to learn? The NHS is losing its capacity for system-wide safety investigation - Carl...

Sepsis: investigating under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)

Three reports that model investigation of sepsis under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), to boost local learning and help improve investigation quality in the NHS.