This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
The organisational duty of candour is imposed on healthcare providers in England under the provisions of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 and the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated...
To protect the dignity of patients by ensuring that restrictions imposed to protect that person and not overly intrusive, best interests assessors are commissioned to review the restrictions and...
‘SO1: Make zero avoidable harm to patients a state of mind and a rule of engagement in the planning and delivery of health care everywhere.’ .
The transverse guard was introduced in November 2017, so a retrospective review of all neonates who had undergone open MMC repair between March 2016 and May 2020 was performed. Operations beyond 3...
Research shows that many people are unfamiliar with the purpose of antibiotics and how best to take them. For example, more than one third of the population surveyed thought that antibiotics were an...
‘Staff were disrespectful to women and disparaging about the capabilities of colleagues in front of women and families. A family member heard a consultant describe the unit they were in as “unsafe”...
NHS Resolution has just published guidance on ‘Being fair: supporting a just and learning culture for staff, patients and carers following incidents in the NHS’ (Chaffer et al, 2019)..
Prevalence of lower limb ulceration is reported at 1.5% of the UK's adult population (Guest et al, 2015), increasing to 3% for those over 80 years old (Gohel and Poskitt, 2010). It is estimated that...
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (2024) has launched a 12-week public consultation, which began on 26 November 2024, to explore proposals aimed at enhancing accountability and...