Patient Safety Education and Training

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…

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…