The doctor taking safety to new heights The NHS is adopting a safety technique based on checklists used by pilots. Our writer meets the US surgeon behind it Atul Gawande does not look like a surgeon who makes mistakes, especially ones that can kill. He is tall, slim and boyishly handsome at 43, with the [...]

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Medication error is always on the list of the top ‘n’ risk for any healthcare institution. To read about NHS medication errors doubling in two years may seem to indicate that controlling or mitigating these risks have not worked somehow. But read on and the report noted that 96% of these errors resulted in no [...]

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