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NHS staff might suffer from patient safety information overload. Repetition of messages could result in their loss of impact and meaning.
Improvements in communication processes can improve patient care and reduce the incidence of malpractice litigation and patient complaints.
Urgent calls have been made in many quarters to stem the rise in clinical negligence costs borne by England’s National Health Service.
The consequences of failures in patient communication can be devastating. We must go back to this basic issue at regular intervals.
It is important not to forget the patient’s perspective and needs. Tort reform should not focus primarily on economics and cost containment.
One area of controversy: whether clinical negligence lawyers are thwarting reform because of their financial interest in the status quo.
In patient safety terms in the NHS England, there have been positives and negatives over the past year to reflect on.
The decolonization of national and global patient safety systems and structures is an interesting perspective to further peruse.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making an impact on health law in England.
The NHS in England has created the first system-wide patient safety syllabus, training, and education framework.
