In researching patient safety and looking at helpful tools and trends there is a lot of deep thinking to do. The area is a complex one with competing underpinning conceptual theories. There is also a...
In its seminal report, Opening the Door to Change, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) (2018) stated:.
From an economic perspective, the benefits associated with the eradication of HCV are clear; people who receive early curative DAA therapy require reduced disability and health spending than untreated...
The challenges facing the NHS nationally in terms of funding and the logistics of running a range of diverse services are not in question..
‘School nurses across the UK … were struggling with heavy workloads and the majority of their time was eaten away by safeguarding and administration’ .
Clwyd and Hart (2013), in their independent review, discussed evidence given to them by the PHSO, which characterised well the central problems facing the NHS in the way it handles complaints. The...
A key issue with policy development and culture change is always going to be the pace of change. I have said many times in my columns that this has been too slow and that systemic problems perpetuate....
Significant progress has been made in recent decades in driving down smoking rates in England. However, nearly 6 million adults continue to smoke (Office for National Statistics, 2020), with...
‘Staff are struggling to cope with large volumes of safety guidance, they have little time and space to implement guidance effectively, and the systems and processes around them are not always...
One of my earliest memories as a student nurse in the late 1960s was helping to serve lunch to patients on an orthopaedic ward. The dinner trolley always arrived from the hospital kitchen at 12 noon....