Patient Safety Learning
@patientsafetylearning.org
Patient Safety Learning is a charity and independent voice for improving patient safety.
🔗Our website: https://www.patientsafetylearning.org/
🔗the hub, our platform to share learning for patient safety: https://www.pslhub.org/
🔗Our website: https://www.patientsafetylearning.org/
🔗the hub, our platform to share learning for patient safety: https://www.pslhub.org/
In this blog our Lead Editor, Samantha Warne, reflects on our most popular pieces of original content published on the hub, our platform to share learning for patient safety, in 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
The hub's top patient safety picks of 2025
the hub's Editor, Samantha Warne, reflects on our most popular pieces of original content published on the hub in 2025.
www.pslhub.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
In this blog our Lead Editor, Samantha Warne, reflects on our most popular pieces of original content published on the hub, our platform to share learning for patient safety, in 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Corridor care guidance needs to move beyond what “should” happen and grapple honestly with why it isn’t - a new blog by Claire Cox on the hub this week. pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Corridor care guidance needs to move beyond what “should” happen and grapple honestly with why it isn’t (a blog by Claire Cox)
In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Associate Director and nurse, Claire Cox reflects on NHS England's corridor care guidance and sets out the need for national action to tackle this persistent pr...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Corridor care guidance needs to move beyond what “should” happen and grapple honestly with why it isn’t - a new blog by Claire Cox on the hub this week. pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
🗨️... it is essential to place patient safety at the heart of everything we do and close the gap between professional oversight and system-wide efforts to improve safety.🗨️
A blog by Martin Fletcher featured on the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/profes... #patientsafety
A blog by Martin Fletcher featured on the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/profes... #patientsafety
Professional regulation and patient safety systems: parallel planets or partners in improvement?
Martin Fletcher shares Australia's regulatory journey and reflects on the UK's more gradual path to reforming their legislative frameworks. He highlights both countries' shared common goals and the ch...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
🗨️... it is essential to place patient safety at the heart of everything we do and close the gap between professional oversight and system-wide efforts to improve safety.🗨️
A blog by Martin Fletcher featured on the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/profes... #patientsafety
A blog by Martin Fletcher featured on the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/profes... #patientsafety
Are we ever going to get an answer to the Hughes report, Secretary of State?
Featured on the hub today, an oral evidence session at the Health and Social Care Select Committee last week. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Featured on the hub today, an oral evidence session at the Health and Social Care Select Committee last week. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Are we ever going to get an answer to the Hughes report, Secretary of State? (Oral evidence session at the Health and Social Care Select Committee, 17 December 2025)
On 17 December 2025, Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting, his Department’s Permanent Secretary Samantha Jones, and NHS England Chief Sir Jim Mackey were be questioned by the Health and Soc...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Are we ever going to get an answer to the Hughes report, Secretary of State?
Featured on the hub today, an oral evidence session at the Health and Social Care Select Committee last week. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Featured on the hub today, an oral evidence session at the Health and Social Care Select Committee last week. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Article added to the hub today - Time to Think Systems in Difficult Airways: ‘The SCOOP on Safety in Thyroid Surgery’. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Time to Think Systems in Difficult Airways: ‘The SCOOP on Safety in Thyroid Surgery’ (12 December 2025)
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December 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Article added to the hub today - Time to Think Systems in Difficult Airways: ‘The SCOOP on Safety in Thyroid Surgery’. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
News article on the hub today - Epidural kit shortage could last until March, regulator says (via BBC News). www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/...
Epidural kit shortage could last until March, regulator says
A shortage of epidural kits in the UK is expected to last until at least March, the government's medicines regulator has warned. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) told hea...
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December 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
News article on the hub today - Epidural kit shortage could last until March, regulator says (via BBC News). www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/...
Added to the hub, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) roundup of latest safety advice for medicines and medical device users for December 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
MHRA Safety Roundup: December 2025
This month's Safety Roundup includes: Drug Safety Update on Mesalazine and idiopathic intracranial hypertension Drug Safety Update on Rybelsus ® (semaglutide tablets): transition to new formulation an...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Added to the hub, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) roundup of latest safety advice for medicines and medical device users for December 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
🗨️Since October 2019, the hub has had more than 1.7 million visits, 3.3 million page views and now has over 8,000 members.🗨️
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A blog by Helen Hughes. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A blog by Helen Hughes. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A blog by Helen Hughes
In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Chief Executive Helen Hughes reflects on the charity’s work and key patient safety policy developments in the past 12 months. She also looks to the year ahead, ...
www.pslhub.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
🗨️Since October 2019, the hub has had more than 1.7 million visits, 3.3 million page views and now has over 8,000 members.🗨️
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A blog by Helen Hughes. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A blog by Helen Hughes. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Operational and delivery review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England - a new report added to the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
NHS England: Operational and delivery review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England (18 December 2025)
The report sets out its key findings as follows: Access A majority of these clinics have exceptionally long waiting times for NHS services, with patients often waiting for many years to be assessed. T...
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December 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Operational and delivery review of NHS adult gender dysphoria clinics in England - a new report added to the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
Featured on the hub today, twenty key resources for patient safety managers working in hospitals. www.pslhub.org/learn/miscel...
Top Picks: Key resources for patient safety managers working in hospitals
This month, our Content and Engagement Manager, Steph, has hand-picked seven resources, particularly relevant for patient safety managers working in hospital settings. Shared with us by hub members an...
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December 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Featured on the hub today, twenty key resources for patient safety managers working in hospitals. www.pslhub.org/learn/miscel...
We are disappointed by the decision not to proceed with mandatory reporting of industry payments to the health sector. The alternative proposal to create best practice guidance falls significantly short of the Cumberlege Review's initial recommendation. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/...
Government refuses move to force industry to disclose payments
The government has rejected calls for legislation requiring industry to disclose its payments to the healthcare sector, five years after a major review said statutory rules should be introduced. It wi...
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December 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We are disappointed by the decision not to proceed with mandatory reporting of industry payments to the health sector. The alternative proposal to create best practice guidance falls significantly short of the Cumberlege Review's initial recommendation. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/...
Corridor care guidance needs to move beyond what “should” happen and grapple honestly with why it isn’t - a new blog by Claire Cox featured on the hub today.
Link: www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Link: www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
December 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Corridor care guidance needs to move beyond what “should” happen and grapple honestly with why it isn’t - a new blog by Claire Cox featured on the hub today.
Link: www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Link: www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Added to the hub today, an invited service review of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. www.pslhub.org/learn/invest...
Report on the General Surgery surgical service at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (Royal College of Surgeons of England, 6 October 2025)
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December 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Added to the hub today, an invited service review of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust, conducted by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. www.pslhub.org/learn/invest...
News article on the hub today - Lack of shared patient records linked to mother’s death (via @hsj.co.uk). www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... #patientsafety
Lack of shared patient records linked to mother’s death
The lack of a single patient record across a system led to failures in information sharing, which contributed to a mother’s death, a coroner has concluded. According to a Prevention of Future Deaths n...
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December 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
News article on the hub today - Lack of shared patient records linked to mother’s death (via @hsj.co.uk). www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... #patientsafety
Learning from Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury claims within the NHS in England: A thematic review - a report from @nhsresolution.bsky.social added to the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
Learning from Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury claims within the NHS in England: A thematic review (NHS Resolution, 12 December 2025)
This report identifies the following areas for improvement in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of OASI: Safer assisted vaginal births – Ensure all obstetricians are trained on the basic princ...
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December 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Learning from Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury claims within the NHS in England: A thematic review - a report from @nhsresolution.bsky.social added to the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
Featured on the hub today, a new call for evidence from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seeking views on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
Open call for evidence: Regulation of AI in Healthcare (Deadline for responses is 11:59pm on 2 February 2026)
Who can take part This Call for Evidence invites contributions from people and organisations across the UK and internationally. The information gathered will help inform the Commission’s recommendatio...
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December 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Featured on the hub today, a new call for evidence from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seeking views on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety
🗨️When guidance describes an idealised version of care that staff cannot deliver despite their best efforts, it doesn’t improve safety - it deepens moral injury.🗨️
A new blog reflecting on the latest NHS England guidance on corridor care. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
A new blog reflecting on the latest NHS England guidance on corridor care. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Corridor care guidance needs to move beyond what “should” happen and grapple honestly with why it isn’t (a blog by Claire Cox)
In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Associate Director and nurse, Claire Cox reflects on NHS England's corridor care guidance and sets out the need for national action to tackle this persistent pr...
www.pslhub.org
December 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🗨️When guidance describes an idealised version of care that staff cannot deliver despite their best efforts, it doesn’t improve safety - it deepens moral injury.🗨️
A new blog reflecting on the latest NHS England guidance on corridor care. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
A new blog reflecting on the latest NHS England guidance on corridor care. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A new blog by our Chief Executive Helen Hughes featured on the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A blog by Helen Hughes
In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Chief Executive Helen Hughes reflects on the charity’s work and key patient safety policy developments in the past 12 months. She also looks to the year ahead, ...
www.pslhub.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Looking back at the last 12 months in patient safety and looking forward to the year ahead: A new blog by our Chief Executive Helen Hughes featured on the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
News article on the hub - Patients left stranded and forced to take public transport to hospital appointments. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... (via @the-independent.com) #patientsafety
Patients left stranded and forced to take public transport to hospital appointments
Patients with mobility issues have been left stranded with no way of getting to and from their hospital appointments, according to a review. Every weekday, more than 20,000 people use NHS non-emergenc...
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December 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
News article on the hub - Patients left stranded and forced to take public transport to hospital appointments. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... (via @the-independent.com) #patientsafety
🗨️These networks are owned and driven by their members, whose energy, knowledge, and experience shape everything they do.🗨️
In this blog Claire Cox reflects on key highlights and achievements from the hub's networks throughout 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
In this blog Claire Cox reflects on key highlights and achievements from the hub's networks throughout 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
“Another uplifting year of sharing learning, collaboration and development for the patient safety networks” Claire Cox reflects on 2025
In this blog Claire Cox, Associate Director at Patient Safety Learning, reflects on key highlights and achievements from the networks throughout 2025.
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December 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🗨️These networks are owned and driven by their members, whose energy, knowledge, and experience shape everything they do.🗨️
In this blog Claire Cox reflects on key highlights and achievements from the hub's networks throughout 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
In this blog Claire Cox reflects on key highlights and achievements from the hub's networks throughout 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
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NHS Resolution launches its latest thematic review, ‘Learning from Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury claims within the NHS in England’.
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/4oP5a0g
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/4oP5a0g
December 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
NHS Resolution launches its latest thematic review, ‘Learning from Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury claims within the NHS in England’.
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/4oP5a0g
Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/4oP5a0g
New on the hub today, the National Audit of Eating Disorders Service Mapping Report 2025, which provides information on eating disorder service provision across England. Its findings highlight growing disparities between child and adult services. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
National Audit of Eating Disorders Service Mapping Report 2025
Key findings in the report include: Nationally, adult community teams have 1.89 people on their caseload for every 1 patient open to children and young people (CYP) teams. This means adult community t...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New on the hub today, the National Audit of Eating Disorders Service Mapping Report 2025, which provides information on eating disorder service provision across England. Its findings highlight growing disparities between child and adult services. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
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Important reflections by @safetynurse999.bsky.social on the gap between work-as-imagined and work-as-done in the new national guidance on corridor care issued last week ⬇️
In a new blog on corridor care, Claire Cox argues that to have a significant impact, guidance needs to move beyond what 'should' happen.
▶️ www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
▶️ www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Important reflections by @safetynurse999.bsky.social on the gap between work-as-imagined and work-as-done in the new national guidance on corridor care issued last week ⬇️
Upcoming event featured on the hub:
▶️ Digital Health Rewired 2026
📌 The NEC, Birmingham
🗓️ Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 March
More details on the hub below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/events/event... @dhrewired.bsky.social #REWIRED26
▶️ Digital Health Rewired 2026
📌 The NEC, Birmingham
🗓️ Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 March
More details on the hub below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/events/event... @dhrewired.bsky.social #REWIRED26
Digital Health Rewired 2026
Digital Health Rewired 2026 is the UK’s biggest digital health expo, bringing together everyone using digital and data to improve health and care. Held on 24-25 March at The NEC Birmingham, the event ...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Upcoming event featured on the hub:
▶️ Digital Health Rewired 2026
📌 The NEC, Birmingham
🗓️ Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 March
More details on the hub below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/events/event... @dhrewired.bsky.social #REWIRED26
▶️ Digital Health Rewired 2026
📌 The NEC, Birmingham
🗓️ Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 March
More details on the hub below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/events/event... @dhrewired.bsky.social #REWIRED26
In a new blog on corridor care, Claire Cox argues that to have a significant impact, guidance needs to move beyond what 'should' happen.
▶️ www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
▶️ www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
December 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
In a new blog on corridor care, Claire Cox argues that to have a significant impact, guidance needs to move beyond what 'should' happen.
▶️ www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
▶️ www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety