Patient Safety Learning

14/10/2026

Featured on the hub, a training guide developed to help people facilitate an interactive workshop, bringing SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) to life. https://www.pslhub.org/learn/investigations-risk-management-and-legal-issues/risk-management-and-legal-issues/systems/seips-in-action-training-resource-guide-r13679/

This training guide was developed to help people facilitate an interactive workshop, bringing SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) to life.

13/10/2026

How can antibiotics enter your food chain?

In this 2 minute video, Chief Medical Officer for The UK Sepsis Trust, Ron Daniels explains how antibiotics can enter your food chain, and how this is having an impact on sepsis and antimicrobial resistance.

12/10/2026

When patients struggle to follow treatment plans, do we look closely enough at the barriers they face?

In this new blog, Risa Mallory M.Ed. argues that too often, non-adherence is framed as a patient failing, as though people simply choose not to take their medications, follow treatment plans, or attend appointments.

She makes the case that when patients are listened to, respected, and engaged as partners, treatment adherence becomes about collaboration rather than compliance.

Risa Mallory is a retired psychotherapist from Canada and a hub Topic leader. After a serious cardiovascular event in 2018 she became a patient advocate, collaborating with organisations across the globe. In this blog, Risa says that when patients are listened to, respected, and engaged as partners,...

09/10/2026

Featured on the hub today, the second in a short series of blogs on the need for integrated patient experience intelligence by Ben Kenyon.

In part one, Ben examined the fragmentation of the current system. In this blog, he explores the infrastructure pieces now forming. But forming isn't the same as working. Here's what's actually available, what it could enable and what still needs to be designed.

The jigsaw pieces needed for integrated patient experience intelligence are finally starting to come together across the NHS, but the question is whether anyone is going to bother assembling them

08/10/2026

My submission to the national review of clinical risk management standards DCB0129 and DCB0160 - a new blog by Clive Flashman featured on the hub today. https://www.pslhub.org/learn/digital-health-and-care-service-provision/regulatory-bodies-standards-guidance/my-submission-to-the-national-review-of-clinical-risk-management-standards-dcb0129-and-dcb0160-september-2026-r14830/

Clive Flashman summarises his response to the national review of the clinical risk management standards DCB0129 and DCB0160

07/10/2026

How do we know whether the recommendations from the Covid-19 Inquiry are actually translating into change?

Featured on the hub today, a tracker created by Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK to monitor the UK Government’s progress in implementing the inquiry's recommendations.

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice has created a tracker to monitor the UK Government’s progress in implementing the recommendations of the Covid-19 Inquiry

06/10/2026

In this opinion piece, Julie Gould draws attention to the side effects of the dopamine agonists she was prescribed for restless legs syndrome.

Julie has set up the Dopamine Agonist Action Group with three fellow activists, calling for improved communication around the risks and better support for patients.

Julie Gould draws attention to the side effects of the dopamine agonists she was prescribed for restless legs syndrome

05/10/2026

In a new opinion piece on the hub today, Aditi Desai considers whether retrospective inquiries alone are enough to improve maternity safety. https://www.pslhub.org/learn/patient-safety-in-health-and-care/high-risk-areas/maternity/beyond-inquiries-reflecting-on-systems-thinking-approach-in-maternity-safety-r14788/

Aditi Desai considers whether retrospective inquiries alone are enough to improve maternity safety, arguing that individual errors rarely explain the full picture

02/10/2026

In this new blog, Douglas Woodcock and Marieke Emonts share Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals' Family Health Board governance improvement journey. Doug and Marieke will be discussing this more at today's Patient Safety Management Network meeting. https://www.pslhub.org/learn/improving-patient-safety/implementation-of-improvements/improving-the-family-health-board-governance-processes-at-nuth-r14824/

Doug Woodcock and Marieke Emonts share Family Health's governance improvement journey at NUTH

01/10/2026

In this new blog Naomi Fulop argues that although the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has exposed serious systemic failures around the procurement of personal protective equipment, meaningful accountability remains largely absent. https://www.pslhub.org/learn/coronavirus-covid19/273_blogs/the-ppe-scandal-has-been-exposed-now-we-need-accountability-r14740/ Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK

Naomi Fulop argues that although the UK Covid-19 Inquiry has exposed serious systemic failures around the procurement of PPE, meaningful accountability remains largely absent