Australians can’t tell which private hospital is safer then the next because the data isn’t publicly available. It’s time that changed.
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Along with an increase in demand, NHS ambulance services are seeing a growth in patient safety incidents.
With more demand on doctors and nurses and a push for quicker consultations, clinical empathy is being dwarfed by the need for efficiency.
Planning to give birth just a little early carries long-term risks for babies, as researchers are discovering. This is why we should be concerned.
Seventeen years ago, the Department of Health berated the NHS for not learning lessons about patient safety. What’s changed?
Junior doctors are often blamed when things go wrong in hospital. But are we placing too many demands on them?
If the relationship between the government and the medical profession is the ‘politics of the double bed’, then this couple are in a rocky patch.
Cooperation and communication are the cornerstones of patient care and safety but it’s all too easy to dismiss with a shrug.
Medical tourism is the practice of seeking medical care across international borders. Countries with established medical sectors like the US, Europe, India and Thailand have been traditional destinations…
According to Atul Gawande medicine lies at “the messy intersection of science and human fallibility”. Named as one of the world’s most influential thinkers by Time in 2010, Gawande is a world renowned…
Jeremy Hunt’s announcement that the government will consider extending the legal duty of health professionals to be open and honest with patients or their families when mistakes cause harm is one of the…
Do official inquiries and reports make any difference to how we run and regulate the NHS? It’s a year since Robert Francis published his findings following the high profile failings at Mid Staffordshire…
For people with learning disabilities the world can be a bewildering and strange place to get to grips with, but in hospitals it can be even worse. Sometimes members of staff at a busy hospital simply…
The point of surgical procedures is to save or improve the quality of our lives, but things can and do go wrong because of system or human errors. In too many cases patients are failed because of so called…
One of US President Barack Obama’s key health advisers has just published a review in the aftermath of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal. Don Berwick’s review is both thoughtful and reflective but…
I lost my job in 2010 after raising concerns about staff shortages and patient safety in the NHS. But despite the NHS Chief Executive’s promise to intervene for whistleblowers and a tribunal in my favour…
It’s a traditional part of the theatre of health policy for trade unionists to give secretaries of state for health a hard time. The latest example of this was the vote of no confidence in Jeremy Hunt…
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Lecturer in Law, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Informatics and Patient Safety, Macquarie University
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Professor at Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Reader in Health Law, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Physiotherapy, University of Sydney
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Professor, Clinical Epidemiology & Process Redesign, Flinders University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health and Social Care Research, St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, Australian National University
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Professor of Health Economics, University of York
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Visiting Professor of Neuropsychology, UCL
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Professor, Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
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Faculty Lead for Supporting Students, Incidents in Practice, University of Southampton
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Sydney
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Professor of Health Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science