Patient Safety Learning used its second annual conference to launch ‘The Hub’ and to issue a call for action on patient safety; with inspiring and practical presentations on strategies to tackle some of the most pressing issues.
The Patient Safety Learning annual conference took place on 2 October 2019 at The King’s Fund and the theme was set at the outset by Jonathan Hazan, chair of the board of trustees.
“Patient safety must become a core purpose of healthcare, not just one of its priorities, because priorities can be shuffled around,” he said, while welcoming delegates. “That is one of the themes of our Blueprint for Action and of this conference.”
Helen Hughes, chief executive of Patient Safety Learning, picked up the point. Almost 20 years have passed since the US Institute of Medicine published its ground-breaking report, To Err is Human,1 and the UK Department of Health followed up with An Organisation with a Memory.2
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