Annual Evidence Update on Patient Safety: 26-30 January 2009

An update of the evidence on this topic from the NLH Patient and Public Involvement Specialist Library.

This Annual Evidence Update considers the issue of patient involvement in patient safety, which can be defined as: the actions that patients take to reduce the likelihood of medical errors and/or the actions that patients take to mitigate the effects of medical errors when they do occur. The Annual Evidence Update looks at the ways in which patients can help to improve patient safety, and also at the willingness of patients to perform safety-related behaviours.

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/ppi/.

National Knowledge Week on Patient Safety: 26-30 November 2007

The National Knowledge Week considers the issue of patient and public involvement in patient safety. Firstly it reviews how involvement is defined. It then looks at the way patients, their families and carers, and the community could be involved. It seeks to identify current initiatives which encourage involvement and if there is evidence that these have succeeded. During our National Knowledge Week the Patient and Public Involvement Specialist Library will be exhibiting at the NHS Centre for Involvement Conference.

Find out more at http://www.library.nhs.uk/ppi