Monday, July 31, 2006

A safer place for patients: learning to improve patient safety.

House of Commons Committee on Public Accounts. London, England: The Stationary Office; July 6, 2006. Publication HC 831.

The Committee found that in 2004-05 some 974,000 patient safety incidents and near misses were recorded on NHS trusts' reporting systems. NHS trusts need to bring down the level of avoidable incidents, particularly those leading to serious harm and death, through rigorous implementation of safety alerts and adoption of high impact, evidence based solutions such as those promulgated by the National Patient Safety Agency and the Institute of Innovation and Improvement.

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