Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust provides acute and specialist healthcare for a population of nearly two million people in north west London, and more beyond. They have five hospitals – Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea, St Mary’s and The Western Eye – as well ...
The National Audit Office identified that needlestick and sharps injuries ranked alongside moving and handling, falls, trips and exposure to hazardous substances as the main types of accidents experienced by NHS staff.189 A later Royal College of Nursing survey of 4407 nurses found that almost half...
A previous study by Morris et al. suggested that – although GPs in primary care trusts in England ranked patient safety highly – they often had insufficient knowledge and training to make optimum use of embedded clinical decision support features of their computer systems[44]. Shojania et al....