Call 10/1007: Patient safety in healthcare organisations
Ensuring the safety of everyone who comes into contact with health services is one of the most important challenges facing health care today.
It is estimated that one in ten patients who receive health care will suffer from preventable harm. 850,000 adverse events are thought to occur in UK hospitals each year.
- translating knowledge about patient safety into service delivery
- patient/user involvement in safety improvement
- financial costs and benefits and trade-offs in patient safety
- boundaries between care processes, services and organisations
