1 March 2014

Reducing harm to patients - view from the Secretary of State in VIrginia US

Reducing harm to patients
Health Foundation, March 2014
  • This briefing follows a March 2014 speech by the Secretary of State for Health at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. In his speech, Jeremy Hunt MP set out a new ambition to reduce avoidable harm to patients in the NHS.
  • The Briefing sets out five questions that organisations should ask themselves to help make the ambition to reduce avoidable harm a reality.