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DIY extreme: What happens if you are called by an app to attend a cardiac arrest nearby? Would you attend? And does it make a difference?

Who should be allowed to call for help in a hospital? Healthcare professionals are doing it already: should everybody be allowed?

95% of patients would like to see results of their tests. Surprised?

The hidden work of patients and their families might make things safer. But does it create greater inequalities?

In this weeks edition of the British Medical Journal fellow Acute Physician Zoë Fritz and her colleague Caitríona Cox write eloquently...

A little booklet is coming through with the papers: Best Workplaces 2022! UK rankings. How exciting: I am opening the booklet. These are...

How regulations for consent might be undermining patient safety. A friend of mine has recently had to undergo treatment for cancer. The...

This month saw the publication of the long awaited Ockenden report exposing patient harm in maternity services in Shrewsbury and Telford...

Yesterday we published the Acute Care Toolkit for people with a learning disability! People with learning disability suffer often from...

A year ago we had Patient Powered Safety 2021. With speakers from three continents and from 8 countries we had a truly international...

This is my one of my favourite places on the planet: Abersoch beach - an hour from where I live: Always beautiful - whatever the weather....

The law for patient access to their records is changing in the US in April. How will this affect the global patient safety movement?

This week saw the publication of an article in the Health Service Journal by social scientist and patient safety activist Josephine...

I am super excited to tell you about the programme of this years event. So many people have agreed to speak - I am a bit overwhelmed! For...

A patient is admitted to hospital. She rings her daughter at home: things are not good; she is feeling awful, her heart is racing, she is...

First of January 2021: "Year 1 post COVID" or "Year 2 of COVID"? 2020 was the year where lots of things did not go to plan. And where...

Everything has changed: After we announced Patient Powered Safety 2020 our world has been turned upside down. We are social distancing...

When we were discussing what BASE-Lab-Health should be about we spoke about the people and groups that inspire us. Here are five of them:...

Dreaming to have the head-space to work with people to co-produce better: better analysis, better understanding, better change, better...

In May we are running two events around patient safety: an Innovation Lab at Pontio and a symposium on the 23rd/24th hosted by Bangor...