System-wide action needed to improve safety in healthcare
Parliamentary reception with MPs, Peers and representatives of the wider patient safety and healthcare community
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European Biosafety Network publishes new guidance to prevent sharps injuries
Europe must act now to stop the spread of deadly diseases due to COVID-19 Healthcare workers and patients are being put at risk not only from COVID-19 but other deadly diseases as a result of an increase in sharps injuries…
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European Parliament votes to stop cancer at work and include hazardous drugs and reprotoxins in the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (CMD)
Stop Cancer at Work Campaign calls on the European Commission to work with the Parliament and Council to legislate now to prevent workplace cancer The European Parliament voted yesterday late afternoon to support the Stop Cancer at Work campaign’s demands…
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Healthcare Worker Safety and Patient Safety ‘Two Sides of the Same Coin’ says Jeremy Hunt
Speaking today at a webinar for the Clinical Human Factors Group, Jeremy Hunt MP, Chair of the Health and Social Committee for the House of Commons, has said that Healthcare Worker Safety and Patient Safety and ‘two sides of the…
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Government announces plans to appoint an independent Patient Safety Commissioner
The government has announced that it will accept one of the key recommendations from The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, ‘First do no harm’, which was chaired by Baroness Cumberlidge.The review was announced in February 2018 with the…
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WHO produce new ‘Healthcare worker safety: a priority for patient safety’ charter
As part of World Patient Safety Day, the WHO produce a new charter: ‘Healthcare worker safety: a priority for patient safety’ As part of World Patient Safety Day in September 2020, the World Health Organisation presented a new Charter: ‘healthcare…
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Study on the risks of exposure for staff to potentially hazardous parenteral products recommended
A national report by Lord Carter of Coles recommends the government commissions a study on the risks of exposure for staff to potentially hazardous parenteral products. A national report for the Department of Health and Social Care by Lord Carter…
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