Cultural change needed to improve medicines safety, Patient Safety Commissioner says

In a review of her first 100 days in the role, England’s Patient Safety Commissioner Dr Henrietta Hughes outlines how Dr Hughes has heard from patients, families, healthcare professionals and senior leaders on what needs to change to improve the safety of medicines and medical devices.  In it, she calls for a cultural change throughout the health system and sets out her plans for the future.

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Improving junior doctor medicine prescribing and patient safety: an intervention using personalised, structured, video-enhanced feedback and deliberate practice

This research investigates the effectiveness of an intervention for improving the prescribing and patient safety behaviour of Foundation Year doctors.

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