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Key NHS patient safety objective achieved

Summary

The National Patient Safety Agency was established in 2001 to improve patient safety in the NHS.

It aims to ensure that the risk of avoidable harm to patients is minimal, that concerns about doctors’ and dentists’ performance are resolved so that return to safe practice is enabled where appropriate, and that participants in research are protected through an fair, transparent, quick and efficient ethics system.

This Annual Report finds that the National Patient Safety Agency has achieved one of its key objectives by publishing the first Patient Safety Observatory report, data collected and analysed by a new “world-leading” patient safety incident reporting system.

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Law-Making Explained

This is a House of Commons Paper (HC 116): it is a report from the National Audit Office (NAO).

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How does it affect me?

If you work in the National Health Service (NHS) or are or have been a patient of the NHS, this may be of interest to you.

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