The NHS reform agenda and patient safety

Most of the current attention on the Health and Social Care Bill is on commissioning, structural changes and competition. Yet there are fundamental new duties for the Secretary of State that will have potential implications for patient safety and quality. The Francis report will add to this renewed...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inClinical risk Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 43 - 45
Main Author Ramsden, Stephen
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.03.2012
Subjects
Commissioning
competition
Health care
Hospitals
National health services
Patient care
Regulation
Safety measures
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Most of the current attention on the Health and Social Care Bill is on commissioning, structural changes and competition. Yet there are fundamental new duties for the Secretary of State that will have potential implications for patient safety and quality. The Francis report will add to this renewed attention to patient safety and the risk is that the NHS faces more and more regulation rather than a call for more transformational approaches that may help change the mindset from one that currently continues to ‘accept the unacceptable’ failures that are taking place in our hospitals and other healthcare settings. This article explores the relationship between the traditional governance-based approach and more proactive transformational approaches that utilize improvement science.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-1
content type line 23
ObjectType-Article-1
ObjectType-Feature-2
ISSN:1356-2622
1758-1028
DOI:10.1258/cr.2012.012A03