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Patient Safety Information
Patient safety is one issue that unites clinical practitioners, managers and board directors in its importance. Click on any of the buttons below for further articles and information looking at patient safety from several different perspectives.
Clinical Practice
Patients’ safety requires protection in every area of clinical practice, from ensuring the prevention of slips, trips and falls, to eliminating errors in patient identification or drug administration.
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Read more on Clinical PracticeInfection Control
The inexorable rise in healthcare associated infections makes good infection control on its own a significant single contributor to patient safety.
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Read more on Infection ControlLeadership
Evidence consistently points to the effect of good leadership in making patient safety a properly embedded philosophy in clinical practice.
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Read more on LeadershipSafety Culture
Promoting and developing a safety culture is vital if our patient safety record is to be improved and sustained.
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Read more on Safety CultureService Improvement
Driving service improvement depends on the development of robust measures and performance indicators.
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