National patient safety: the importance of auditability
The National patient safety incident reports (NaPSIRs) set out the number of patient safety incidents reported to the National Reporting and Learning System and describe national patterns and trends. The latest report, published in October 2022, details incidents reported from April 2021 to March 2022. The findings show that despite an increase in the total …
As a result of out-dated communication methods, over 600,000 NHS professionals regularly use WhatsApp and other consumer messaging services to connect within the workplace. Pandemic or no pandemic, messaging tools bring undeniable benefits to the healthcare sector, and with Matt Hancock insisting that doctors must abandon pagers by 2021, the need for compliant and secure …
