How to cause more hurt
James Titcombe is a name that is becoming increasingly familiar to many of you I suspect. James’s son died at Morecombe, and has been the subject of a number of investigations. Last week the Parlia...
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Please stop trying to involve me in my healthcare
In 1948, the government introduced legislation which put a duty on estate agents to involve people in the purchase or rental of their houses, preventing the agent from entering into legally binding pu...
A turning point for patient safety?
Fifteen years ago I was involved in developing a performance assessment framework for the NHS – an attempt to provide the public with a rounded analysis of their local NHS bodies. At the time, we were...
Don’t give up on me, baby (aka how to halve avoidable injury)
Imagine having a normal pregnancy, only to have a difficult birth ending in a damaged baby. Imagine the damage was preventable, if only the obstetric care had been better. Your baby would not recover,...
Innovation from industry - what can we learn to improve patient safety?
Last week the Secretary of State for Health delivered a speech on how safety would be improved in the NHS and bold pledges were made to reduce avoidable harm. Patient safety has long been a priority f...
When it comes to person-centred care, do we need measurement or feedback? Part 1
The tendency to want to measure things has existed for as long as humans have walked the earth. More specifically, in the case of health and healthcare, recorded efforts to systematically measure care...
When it comes to person-centred care, do we need measurement or feedback? Part 2
Last week I wrote a blog sharing my thoughts on the problematic nature of measuring the person-centredness of our health services. In our collective efforts to improve care quality, we need to be able...
Robbie Foy
Robbie is a Harkness Fellow and Professor of Primary Care/General Practitioner at the University of Leeds.
Dr Anatole Menon-Johansson
Anatole is a Harkness Fellow and Sexual and Reproductive Health Department Co-Lead at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
Richard Gleave
Richard is a Harkness Fellow and Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer at Public Health England.
