Site sponsors, Brenmoor went to visit Dr Rick Jones in Leeds. Dr Jones is an expert in Chemical Pathology and Immunology and in the first of our series of video questions he was asked for his thoughts on the recent NPSA report on patient wristbands.
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April 30th – 1st May at the ICC Birmingham
The speakers for the annual Patient Safety Congress meeting have been announced.
Last years congress was an amazing success and there was even an impromptu visit by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. This year it is hoped that it is going to be bigger and better!
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The NPSA released their long awaited document on wristbanding patients in 2007.
On publication the NPSA said “Wristbands are used to identify hospital inpatients. Over the 12 month period February 2006 to January 2007, the NPSA received 24,382 reports of patients being mismatched to their care. It is estimated that more than 2,900 of these patient [...]
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) issued a patient safety alert earlier this month. It requires all healthcare organisations to implement the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist for every patient undergoing a surgical procedure. The final implementation date is February 2010. This follows dramatic results from a year long global pilot of the WHO checklist in [...]
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