Safer care for all : solutions from professional regulation and beyond.
by Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care.
Publisher: PSA, London : 2022.Description: 104p.Summary: This report highlights some of the biggest challenges affecting the quality and safety of health and social care across the UK today. It describes a ‘fragmented and complex’ patient and service user safety framework and calls for action to address the safety issues. The report's main recommendation is the appointment of an independent Health and Social Care Safety Commissioner (or equivalent) for each UK country. These commissioners would identify current, emerging, and potential risks across the whole health and social care system, and bring about the necessary action across organisations. The report goes on to consider four important themes: tackling inequalities; regulating for new risks; facing up to the workforce crisis; and accountability, fear and public safety. .Subject(s): patient safety | performance evaluation | professional regulation | fear | risk management | health care | social care | NHS | health inequalities | workforce | accountability | independent health care | private sector | guidelinesDigital copyAvailability: Online access List(s) this item appears in: Patient safety in the NHS [September 2023]
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This report highlights some of the biggest challenges affecting the quality and safety of health and social care across the UK today. It describes a ‘fragmented and complex’ patient and service user safety framework and calls for action to address the safety issues. The report's main recommendation is the appointment of an independent Health and Social Care Safety Commissioner (or equivalent) for each UK country. These commissioners would identify current, emerging, and potential risks across the whole health and social care system, and bring about the necessary action across organisations. The report goes on to consider four important themes: tackling inequalities; regulating for new risks; facing up to the workforce crisis; and accountability, fear and public safety.
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