Patient safety

Clinical audits and similar programmes are invaluable in ensuring patient safety.

Robust data and learning from audits play an essential role in helping to identify risks, prevent harm, and build safer systems of care.

Patient safety isn’t something that sits at the end of a process; it’s the reason that process exists in the first place” Chris Boulton, Director, National Joint Registry (NJR)

Data from audits and registries can be used to detect safety signals, understand where harm is occurring, and support action to reduce risk and improve patient safety.

See below for more on this topic:

Patient safety article baker
Article 19 Jun 2026
Culture Follows Structure
Structural change must come before cultural change in patient safety. Professor Ted Baker, Chair of the Health Services…
case-study 23 Jul 2024
Patient Safety Case Study
Improving the in-patient care of people with Parkinson’s disease Parkinson’s Disease Quality Improvement Project (QIP)…
Cornerstone article patient safety
Article 17 Jan 2023
Safety in numbers
The importance of taking a holistic, evidence-based approach to patient safety. Tina Strack, Associate Director…