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The conversation has shifted The last six months have felt like a significant turning point for patient safety in England. Not because there has been any major new safety initiatives, but because the conversation has shifted. For much of the last decade, the dominant narrative has been around building a patient safety movement: developing a patient…
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Suzette Woodward I often get asked how can we measure whether we are safer today than we were yesterday. I suspect that this is often with the desire for me to provide a small number of clever measures that would clearly show whether safety has improved or not. This is so much harder than people…
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Do you ever feel like we are missing something? Do you have moments when you are struck by a story or a fact that stops you in your tracks. I was recently reading the annual report from NHS Resolution as part of area of research. Having worked there and seen the exponential growth in litigation…
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I read the review of patient safety by Dr Penny Dash [published in July 2025]. You can find it here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686bd5d52cfe301b5fb6780c/dhsc-review-of_patient-safety-across-the-health-and-care-landscape.pdf I made six pages of notes as I read it and have a few comments as you can imagine. I think the best thing for me to do at this stage is provide some…
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In reality we do not know what the true quantitive level of safety is. We dont know for sure how many things are going wrong and we definitely dont know how many things go right. I would argue we may never know. We cannot capture everything – that would be impossible. What we do capture…
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In many ways the year 2000 was the start of the safety movement as we know it today. There are many safety scholars out there who will cite the work as far back as the late 1800s that helped our thinking in patient safety and the brilliance of our anaesthetic colleagues who were in fact the…
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Wherever you work in healthcare and whatever role you have you will be wanting to ensure the safety of the patients in your care. You will want to find ways of building safety within your work. However, healthcare is an uncertain world and the difference between safe care and unsafe care can be decided in minutes. Over the…
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I have been working with loads of amazing people both here and abroad over the last year. One of the many things that comes up time and time again is measurement: ‘how do we measure success when it comes to patient safety?. The questions we have are challenging to answer with confidence; how safe are we today?…
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In the intricate world of healthcare, where patient safety is paramount, the ability to speak up is a crucial component of a culture of safety. However, the complexities surrounding voicing concerns or challenging the status quo in a healthcare environment can be extremely daunting. Speaking up to those who are respected, who are perceived as more…
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