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This website is intended for healthcare professionals
Patient Safety Learning (2024) is a charity for improving patient safety that provides excellent resources to share learning. It has recently produced a report analysing the results of questions...
Marquis et al (2003) noted that patients' quality of life improves steadily following surgery if, in the first 3–6 postoperative months, they have a good relationship with their stoma care nurse,...
The management of the holistic needs of a patient with a stoma and dementia were identified as requiring an individualised and person-centred approach, due to the fact that dementia is a complex...
‘If sites for venous access are limited and no evidence for phlebitis or infection is present, peripheral venous catheters can be left in place for longer periods, although the patient and the...
The first population-wide estimates were made by McClure et al (1996) by collating 128 reports of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, non-accidental poisoning and non-accidental suffocation sent to the...
One way forward to ensuring good communication practices in health care is the proper implementation of the duty of candour..
‘Nurses and nursing staff work closely with their own team and with other professionals, making sure patients' care and treatment is co-ordinated, is of a high standard and has the best possible...
Whatever the Government and NHS appetite for reform and change, the emerging care quality crisis at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust is guaranteed to keep patient safety a live public...