Dr Jenny Vaughan reflects on the case of Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba and charges of gross negligence manslaughter in medical cases.
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To avoid unnecessary future deaths we must ensure that coroners’ warnings about the NHS are heeded
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In the wake of the Gosport War Memorial Hospital case, Dr. Minh Alexander considers how free NHS workers really are to speak up when they have concerns about patient safety.
Read MorePeter Walsh outlines the discrepancies in patient safety requirements for private health providers
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Jonathan Tomlinson considers the competing pressures faced by GPs in their role as gatekeepers to other NHS services.
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It is arguable that Spire Parkway and/or its employees could be held criminally accountable for an offence under section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006.
Read MoreOur take on the latest CQC report on Independent Acute Hospitals.
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This report raises questions about the capacity of the NHS to handle the increasing outsourcing of its services to the private sector and its ability to ensure that services provided by the private sector under contract with the NHS are safe, effective and value for money.
Read MoreA new world-wide concern about patient safety developed in the 1990s with the realisation that more and more surgery was taking place and that the significant and persisting level of complications from surgery was largely the result of faulty systems for preventing them.
Read MoreA collection of reports sourced in our 2014 report into Patient Safety in Private Hospitals, which attempted to collate what little information was available about the quality and outcomes of care in private hospitals.
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After the breast surgeon was sentenced to 15 years for performing unnecessary operations on cancer patients, Colin Leys considers what the inevitable inquiry could mean for private hospitals.
Read MoreDr Lorcan Sheppard critiques gaps in accountability
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