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Assuring patient safety through risk assessment: a guide to assist commissioners of out-of-hours services

This guide, from the National Patient Safety Agency, is to help commissioners ensure that patient safety is appropriately considered by new and existing OOH service providers during service development, service reviews and during quality review and monitoring. Commissioners of OOH services should expect providers to be able to demonstrate that they have focussed on patient safety by undertaking comprehensive patient safety risk assessments.

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