Monitoring Safety

If you want to know how better to monitor patient safety, you may be interested in these two thought papers, recently published by The Health Foundation:
In this thought paper, Dr Carol Peden offers reflections on the measurement and monitoring of safety from the perspective of a practising clinician based at a busy district general hospital.
This thought paper considers the role of patients and citizens in the identification of risk and the measurement and monitoring of safety within healthcare. It discusses opportunities for patients, their families and carers, as well as the wider public, to become part of an integrated system for ensuring the safety of care.
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