NHS England and NHS Improvement National Patient Safety Alerts
These alerts require action to be taken by healthcare providers to reduce the risk of death or disability.
Patient safety
Patient safety is the avoidance of unintended or unexpected harm to people during the provision of health care. We support providers to minimise patient safety incidents and drive improvements in safety and quality. Patients should be treated in a safe environment and protected from avoidable harm.
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy describes how the NHS will continuously improve patient safety, building on the foundations of a safer culture and safer systems
Patient safety improvement programmes
Patient safety improvement programmes (SIPs) prioritise some of the most important safety issues across the NHS in England. They use quality improvement methodology to reduce unnecessary patient harm or death and to improve care.
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