Patient Safety
The principal patient safety arrangements, brought together in one place.
Most harm in medical provision comes from the same handful of places: the wrong staffing, a missed deterioration, an unsafe vehicle, or a handover that did not happen properly.
- Safe staffing
- Clinical assessment
- Safeguarding
- Infection prevention
- Medicines safety
- Equipment safety
- Vehicle safety
- Patient identification
- Consent and capacity
- Clinical records
- Incident reporting
- Duty of Candour
- Risk management
- Emergency escalation
- Learning from events