Summit held in London on 9–10 March 2016, the Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, gave a speech in which he committed the Government to prioritising patient safety in the NHS through three important announcements (Department of Health (DH) and Hunt, 2016a). Delegates at the summit included health ministers and senior expert clinicians from across the world. In his speech to summit deleg...

The National Quality Forum, a governmentadvisory body that sets voluntary safety standards for hospitals, has developed a Care of the Caregiver standard, calling on hospitals to treat traumatized staffers involved in errors as patients requiring care, then involving them in the investigation of what went wrong if their behavior was not found to be reckless or intentional. Just Culture, a model ...

8. I t blames the self, when it commits wrong-doing. 9. I t is quite conscious. 10. I t acts like a compass. The process of conscience has been presented as a firm and unchangeable principle-common in all mankind-which is a part of his soul ar.d which enables him to fulfill his needs. We should r.ot only make ourselves familiar with the characteristics of conscience mentioned above, but also tr...

The practice of medicine can never be risk free. Taking risks leads, by definition, to accidents – it is behaviour that carries with it a probability of an adverse outcome. But there are also rewards for risk taking. Reducing risk-taking will reduce both accidents and the rewards: for example, the extremely risk averse regimes governing the development of new drugs increase their costs and dela...

BACKGROUND Errors in healthcare are a major patient safety issue, with incident reporting a key solution. The incident reporting system has been integrated within a new medical curriculum, encouraging medical students to take part in this key safety process. The aim of this study was to describe the system and assess how students perceived the reporting system with regards to its role in enhanc...

Introduction: Positive risk-taking in occupational therapy intermediate care is a requirement, yet little known about how positive barriers influence discharge decisions at different experience levels. Method: A factorial survey was used to investigate (Limited Capacity, Risk Averse Family, Blame Culture and No Support). Participants self-categorised their level into Novice or Semi-expert Exper...