Fri.Dec 24, 2021

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NHS Patient Safety: Reflections and Looking Forward

Bill Of Health

By John Tingle. In patient safety terms in the NHS England, there have been positives and negatives over the past year to reflect on, and for 2022 there are interesting developments on the horizon. In this post I will discuss a small number of patient safety matters of major impact. A crisis in maternity care . Unsafe maternity care has been a constant theme in the inspection reports of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), our independent regulator of health and social care in 2021.