A recent article by The Guardian points to worrying levels of avoidable patient harm in the NHS, involving strong pain killing drugs. Perhaps more alarming is the fact that some Trusts are failing to act on safety advice to reduce these errors. The article does not go as far as to link specific cases of patient harm with evidence this could have been avoided if specific points of advice had not been ignored.
It seems that human error is here to stay but its likelihood can be increased and decreased.
Sunday 22 August 2010
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