On the Radar

Notes A recent book examining some of the social and cultural aspects of patient safety, aspects that can influence individuals and organisations. The book contains: Introduction: A Socio-cultural Perspective on Patient Safety (Emma Rowley and Justin Waring) Part 1 Patients and Publics 1 ‘All News is Bad News’: Patient Safety in the News Media (Cecily Palmer and Toby Murcott) 2 Broadening the Patient Safety Movement: Listening, Involving and Learning from Patients and the Public (Josephine Ocloo) Part 2 Clinical Practice 3 Narrowing the Gap Between Safety Policy and Practice: The Role of Nurses’ Implicit Theories and Heuristics (Anat Drach-Zahavy and Anit Somech) 4 Resources of Strength: An Exnovation of Hidden Competences to Preserve Patient Safety (Jessica Mesman) Part 3 Technology 5 Deviantly Innovative: When Risking Patient Safety is the Right Thing To Do (Emma Rowley) 6 The Precarious Gap between Information Technology and Patient Safety: Lessons from Medication Systems (Habibollah Pirnejad and Roland Bal)