We have today launched a new blog which will focus on patient safety and other healthcare issues. The inaugural post is from our Trustee Jeremy Hunt and details his six priorities for the new Health Secretary. Let’s see how many of them get addressed in her statement to Parliament tomorrow.
Patient Safety Year in Review
2020 was certainly a year we won’t forget. To look back on some of the key patient safety moments read our full Year in Review here which includes some patient safety related New Year’s Resolutions from our founder Jeremy Hunt.
Patient Safety Watch Advisory Board Members Announced
Patient Safety Watch is delighted to announce the creation of an Advisory Board and its first members. The Board, made up of leading clinicians, campaigners and experts, will provide input into our research programme and general advice on making our work meaningful for medical professionals and patients alike.
The membership of the Advisory Board is as follows -
Professor Dame Clare Gerarda - former Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners
Dame Sally Davies – former Chief Medical Officer for England and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health
Professor Sir Bruce Keogh – former Medical Director of the NHS
Sir Robert Francis QC – led the inquiry into Mid Staffs
Ann Clwyd – former Labour MP and patient safety campaigner
Sir Norman Lamb – former Lib Dem MP now Chair of SLAM
Jeeves Wijesuriya – former Chair of the BMA junior doctors committee
Helene Donnelly – nurse and mid staffs whistle blower
Dame Marianne Griffiths - Chief Executive of Western Sussex Hospitals
Patient Safety Watch Trustee Jeremy Hunt said:
“This is a stellar line up of experts covering so many different aspects of patient safety. I’m incredibly grateful to all of them for getting involved and helping us as we look to find ways to measure and reduce avoidable harm in healthcare.”
Notes to Editors
These positions are voluntary and unpaid roles.
Weekly Update Archive
Launch of Patient Safety Weekly Update
To mark World Patient Safety Day we have today launched the first of a series of weekly patient safety updates from our founder and Trustee, Jeremy Hunt MP. In it he writes about what led him to set our charity up, what he’s hoping to achieve through our research and gives you his thoughts on recent patient safety and other health related issues. You can read the first one here but to get next week’s please sign up here.
Patient Safety Watch in the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management
Our founder and Trustee Jeremy Hunt has an article in the latest edition of the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management setting out why he set up our charity and what he hopes it will achieve. For those with access you can read the full piece here but in summary he describes how he came to be interested in patient safety issues and reducing avoidable harm as well as the importance of reliable data for that work to be successful.
HSJ article on Patient Safety Watch
Our founder and trustee Jeremy Hunt was interviewed by the Health Service Journal on why he is establishing Patient Safety Watch and what he hopes to achieve with its research. You can read the full interview here.