Reducing harm to patients

"The example set by Virginia Mason illustrates that a bold ambition, set by an organisation’s leadership and communicated to all staff, has the potential to deliver tangible improvements in safety and the creation of a sustainable safety culture."

Reducing harm to patients
The Health Foundation
March 2014

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Commissioning the conditions for safer surgery

"The taskforce concluded that to achieve a continual reduction in harm, we must reduce variation in practice, promote learning from our mistakes and from improvement activities, and continue to promote organisational and professional responsibility."

Standardise, educate, harmonise: commissioning the conditions for safer surgery
NHS England Never Events Taskforce
February 2014

Increasing reporting rates and reducing harm

"Actively developing a transparent and positive safety culture at the unit level can improve medication safety."


Increasing medication error reporting rates while reducing harm through simultaneous cultural and system-level interventions in an intensive care unit
KM Abstoss, BE Shaw, TA Owens, JL Juno, EL Commiskey, MF Niedner
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2011, 20(11):914-922

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