Patient safety

Archive
8 October 2009

Better reporting drives incident numbers

More than 5,700 patients have died or suffered serious harm as a result of NHS errors over the past six
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10 September 2009

Setting records straight

Peter Short, national clinical lead GP, NHS Connecting for Health, discusses the recent Shared Record Professional Guidance.
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4 September 2009

Reported drug errors increase, says NPSA

The incidence of reported drug errors leading to avoidable deaths and patient harm is on the increase, according to a
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27 August 2009

Audit Commission warns on poor records

The Audit Commission has called on organisations at all levels of the NHS to improve the standard of record keeping
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17 August 2009

NPSA: unsure if wristband target met

The National Patient Safety Agency has said a technical problem means it is unable to establish whether its target to make sure that all
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12 August 2009

One in three don’t collect anti-virals

More than one in three people have failed to collect their anti-viral medicine after being issued with an authorisation number
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31 July 2009

EHI’s industry round up 31.7.2009

This month’s E-Health Insider industry round-up covers new and upgraded products, system deployments and other developments at leading healthcare IT
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23 July 2009

Stop the clot

Dr Maureen Baker CBE, clinical director for patient safety at NHS Connecting for Health, talks about developing a risk assessment
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13 July 2009

King’s picks McKesson whiteboard system

One of London’s largest hospital trusts is to scrap its manual whiteboards and install a real time room and patient
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3 July 2009

MPs back technology for patient safety

MPs have criticised the Department of Health for failing to collect data on whether a decade of policies to improve
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