Reopening the Country During COVID-19: Legal and Policy Issues
There is a pressing need for a set of principles to guide not just the imposing of COVID-type restrictions, but also relaxing or lifting them.
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Read more: Patient Safety and Health Quality in the NHS (National Health Service) in England: A Zip Code Lottery? Patient Safety and Health Quality in the NHS (National Health Service) in England: A Zip Code Lottery?
By John Tingle The independent regulator of health and social care in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) regularly produces detailed inspection reports on the health and care organisations that it regulates. These reports show that quality of care and patient safety are not consistent across England’s health and care facilities. Wide variations in quality…
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Read more: The Ostrich Syndrome and Patient Safety The Ostrich Syndrome and Patient Safety
By John Tingle Sadly, the NHS (National Health Service) in England is littered with examples of cases where individuals and organisations have seemingly buried their heads in the sand when patient safety errors have occurred. Attitudes that can be seen in past reports range from,’ it’s not my responsibility’, to procrastination, or passing the buck,…
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Read more: A Local City Takes on Pharma A Local City Takes on Pharma
By Phebe Hong A city northwest of Atlanta is taking on Big Pharma. On February 6th, the city of Marietta filed a lawsuit in federal court in Atlanta against Mallinckrodt, a global specialty pharmaceutical company. The class action complaint alleges that Mallinckrodt is “unjustly enriched” by its “exorbitant and unconscionable prices” for Acthar, a therapeutic…
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Read more: The NHS In England: Patient Safety News Roundup The NHS In England: Patient Safety News Roundup
By John Tingle There is always a lot happening with patient safety in the NHS (National Health Service) in England. Sadly, all too often patient safety crises events occur. The NHS is also no sloth when it comes to the production of patient safety policies, reports, and publications. These generally provide excellent information and are…
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Read more: Lessons from One Child Nation for Health Policy Lessons from One Child Nation for Health Policy
By Katherine Drabiak The acclaimed One Child Nation, streaming on Amazon Prime, provides a haunting look at the reasoning, implementation, and consequences behind China’s (now revised) One Child Policy. Director Nanfu Wang expertly weaves together interviews from population health officials, medical professionals, and family members to describe how government policy strictly enforced population control measures…
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Read more: The Rise of Biosimilars: Success of the BPCIA? (Part III) The Rise of Biosimilars: Success of the BPCIA? (Part III)
By Jonathan Darrow This is Part III in a series exploring the history, challenges, and opportunities in the regulation of biosimilars, or biologic medical products that are very similar to already approved biological medicines. Part III considers a path forward in the regulation of biologics. For Part I, click here. For Part II click here….
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Read more: Toward a Safer NHS in 2020 Toward a Safer NHS in 2020
By John Tingle As the New Year begins its important to reflect on the previous year’s National Health Service (NHS) patient safety milestones in England. We should ask also whether the NHS patient safety agenda will make major advances in 2020. The year 2019 was another bumper year for NHS patient safety policy developments and…
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Read more: Enhancing Patient Safety Education and Training through Legal Study Enhancing Patient Safety Education and Training through Legal Study
By John Tingle In the new NHS Patient Safety Strategy for England there is a discussion of patient safety education and training. While safety is now better understood there are significant numbers of people who still have a limited understanding of safety science. A National Patient Safety Syllabus A commitment is made to have a…
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Read more: Maternity Scandal Hits the NHS Maternity Scandal Hits the NHS
By John Tingle Unfortunately, it’s never too long before a major NHS patient safety crisis hits the newspaper headlines in the United Kingdom. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SATH) maternity scandal has just become a major breaking U.K. patient safety news story. Shaun Lintern reports in The Independent: Hundreds of families whose babies died…
