Today is WHO World Patient Safety Day. At the present time patient safety is gaining perhaps more attention than ever given the need for us to protect patients from the harms of COVID-19. Highlighting World Patient Safety, therefore, seems timely. The theme of this year’s WHO World Patient Safety Day
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In celebration of World Patient Safety Day, Iain Roberts, Head of Programmes at Improvement Cymru, shares a personal reflection on patient safety. For any parent reading this you are probably aware of ‘Operation Ouch’ on CBeebies. It’s a medical show for kids hosted by two doctors, Dr Chris and Dr Xand
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Mark Griffiths started in this new role for Public Health Wales working closely with our Director Dr John Boulton just as the Covid-19 Lockdown began. Here he shares his insights on the impact of the pandemic and what this means for research, innovation and improvement across health and social care
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Earlier this month, on the 3 June 2020 the Welsh Government announced that The Health and Social Care (Quality and Engagement) (Wales) Bill had received royal assent, with the expectation that the Bill will be implemented within the coming two years. This is great news for Wales in ensuring that
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I started my nurse training over 30 years ago, but I still remember writing an essay that included the quote “The very first requirement in hospital is that it should do the sick no harm” I thought that a quote from Florence Nightingale was a shoe in to at least
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As we go into 2020 celebrating WHO’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife, we catch up with Elinore Macgillivray and Donna James from the Improvement Cymru Maternity and Neonatal team to talk about how Florence Nightingale’s approach to nursing included using the improvement skills that we currently use in Improvement
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