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Newsletter, January 2023

Patient Safety Movement

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020.

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Newsletter, November 2022

Patient Safety Movement

GOVERNANCE BOARD Mike Durkin, OBE, MBBS, FRCA, FRCP, DSC, Chairman of PSMF , Senior advisor on Patient Safety Policy and Leadership, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London Steven J. Until now, only public hospitals were required to do so.