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Patient safety
Ensuring the safety of everyone who comes into contact with health services is one of the most important challenges facing health care today.
About patient safety
The Department's approach and long term strategy for ensuring patient safety in all healthcare settings.
National Patient Safety Forum
The report “Safety First” recommended establishing a National Patient Safety Forum to influence the development of the patient safety agenda and to facilitate its delivery. The Forum brings together senior representatives of key organisations to be the national conscience of patient safety.
Patient safety key documents
DH-published documents about patient safety.
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National Patient Safety Agency
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) is a Special Health Authority created to co-ordinate the efforts of all those involved in healthcare, and more importantly to learn from patient safety incidents occurring in the NHS.
Central Alerting system (CAS)
A new, flexible IT system for distributing alerts, CAS subsumes the Safety Alert Broadcast System (SABS) and Public Health Link (PHL) into a more robust and suitable technology for distributing safety alerts, emergency alerts, drug alerts, Dear Doctor letters, and MDA alerts.
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