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Patient safety

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Ensuring the safety of everyone who comes into contact with health services is one of the most important challenges facing health care today.

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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.

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