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Post by Barney McGrew on Mar 26, 2014 7:08:54 GMT
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is urging the NHS in England to reduce the number of serious mistakes being made and save 6,000 lives over the next three years. Mr Hunt said NHS trusts should draw up plans to halve "avoidable harm" such as medication errors, blood clots and bedsores by 2016-17. He says this could stop a third of the preventable deaths in the coming years - equivalent to 6,000 lives saved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-26739490Has any organisation in the world ever before urged its staff to halve serious mistakes? Shouldn't the NHS be told to stop making them altogether as far as possible?
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Post by PeterL on Mar 26, 2014 8:31:09 GMT
If NHS staff are properly trained and supervised there is no reason why any avoidable mistakes should be made.
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