Patient safety Archives

3 July 2009

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

2 June 2009

NHS trust improves patient safety by adopting national coding standards for its new printed wristbands.

18 May 2009

Danish research has found that using simulators to train surgeons can make them twice as quick and more precise when

14 May 2009

NHS National Services Scotland won the Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety at last year’s BT e-Health Insider

14 May 2009

The Best Use of IM&T to Promote Patient Safety was won by NHS National Services Scotland for the Emergency Care

22 April 2009

The largest clinical governance software specialist in the Netherlands has announced it is looking to sign its first UK clients.

21 April 2009

Scotland’s national audit body has urged the Scottish Government to encourage health boards to take up a national Hospital Electronic

9 April 2009

In the latest column from NHS Connecting for Health, Julie Tindale, national clinical lead for the NHS Number Programme, discusses

8 April 2009

The House of Commons Health Committee is looking at whether the national reporting of patient safety incidents should be made

23 March 2009

The Healthcare Commission has said that early warning systems on patient safety incidents, which highlight key issues on quality of

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