Sent to Coventry? Why how we talk affects how we act
In this weeks edition of the British Medical Journal fellow Acute Physician Zoë Fritz and her colleague Caitríona Cox write eloquently...
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Best Workplaces 2022 - Is your healthcare provider on the list?
A little booklet is coming through with the papers: Best Workplaces 2022! UK rankings. How exciting: I am opening the booklet. These are...
Informed Consent? Not really!
How regulations for consent might be undermining patient safety. A friend of mine has recently had to undergo treatment for cancer. The...
Why Ockenden might have been predictable (and maybe preventable)
This month saw the publication of the long awaited Ockenden report exposing patient harm in maternity services in Shrewsbury and Telford...
The first Easy-Read version of an acute care toolkit (ever)
Yesterday we published the Acute Care Toolkit for people with a learning disability! People with learning disability suffer often from...
Patient Powered Safety 2022 is coming !
A year ago we had Patient Powered Safety 2021. With speakers from three continents and from 8 countries we had a truly international...
Out and about with your smart watch: will doctors be interested in your data if you become ill?
This is my one of my favourite places on the planet: Abersoch beach - an hour from where I live: Always beautiful - whatever the weather....
Free in the US? Let's hope that it is not fake news for patients ...
The law for patient access to their records is changing in the US in April. How will this affect the global patient safety movement?
Moral Injury - when families are let down under the pretence of due process and the greater good
This week saw the publication of an article in the Health Service Journal by social scientist and patient safety activist Josephine...
Patient Powered Safety 2021 - This is the story ...
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...
You are in hospital: Who advocates for you if you can't?
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...
What not to forget from "the year to forget"
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...
Patient Powered Safety 2020 - 12 days to go
Everything has changed: After we announced Patient Powered Safety 2020 our world has been turned upside down. We are social distancing...
BASE-Lab-Health: what we believe in in 5 twitter accounts ?
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:...
Exciting? You bet!
Dreaming to have the head-space to work with people to co-produce better: better analysis, better understanding, better change, better...
National climbing centre is teaching doctors & nurses about safer care in hospital – for
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...
Free Solo – Does 4 hours zero margin for error seem a short time?
Second attempt. The first time the movie was showing my car had problems and I didn’t get away early enough and it was sold out. The...
Going live in 2019: Patient Powered Safety – good news x 2
A mere ten days to the end of 2018 and I am getting close to the end of year two of my fellowship with The Health Foundation with two...
The key difference between designing a public building and a public service: let’s ask Renzo Piano!
Public buildings and public services are funded by … the public! But the underlying values and principles for their design could not be...
Not enough seats on the plane from Dubrovnik
…. and other tough choices in health care We are on our way back from a short break in the Mediterranean. While sipping a coffee in the...