What every healthcare board needs to understand about patient safety

What every healthcare board needs to understand about patient safety A report from the Good Governance Institute by Andrew Corbett-Nolan and Jonathan Hazan Datix February 2010

This report from the Good Governance Institute (GGI) sets out the opinion of the Institute and Datix Limited, a commercial provider of incident reporting software, about what healthcare boards need to know about patient safety.

The report provides useful information on the following issues:

• Why boards should focus on patient safety
•  The patient safety system in the United Kingdom
• What works to improve safety in healthcare organisations?
• Governing patient safety
• Recommendations and how your organisation stacks up

The report also usefully contains appendices on patient safety campaigns and resources; contractual issues relating to patient safety; and a joint GGI/Datix Patient Safety Maturity Matrix.

Click here to watch a video of Andrew Corbett-Nolan and Jonathan Hazan discuss this document

See also:

Cost saving in healthcare organisations

Patient Safety Maturity Matrix