Category: Safe Care Partnership

A national call to action: We need to keep preventing avoidable harm to our patients

Posted on 8th May 20258th May 2025 by Improvement Cymru

By Dr Siobhan Lewis, Consultant Physician and Geriatrician, Clinical Lead Goals 5&6, Six Goals for Urgent and Emergency Care Programme 1 in 3. 1 in 3 older people are discharged from hospital with a disability that they didn’t have when they first arrived. This is a stark and saddening fact.

What is a Quality Management System and why are we being asked to manage quality in healthcare in this way?

Posted on 7th May 20257th May 2025 by Improvement Cymru

By Jonathan Clarke, Clinical Lead within the NHS Wales Executive, Assistant Medical Director for QI at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, and Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant The Duty of Quality, published by Welsh Government, recommends that healthcare systems should operate within a Quality Management System (QMS) to deliver higher

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