Meetings
Patient Safety APPG Meeting - 8 December 2009
This meeting of the APPG meeting saw a range of healthcare speakers discuss patient safety in primary care.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting - 21 October 2009
This meeting of the APPG meeting saw a range of healthcare speakers discuss the role of Leadership in improving patient safety.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 10th March 2009:
The first meeting of the year addressed the themes proposed for the forthcoming meetings and offered attendees the opportunity to discuss the issues with Stephen Thornton, Chief Executive, the Health Foundation, Dr Peter Cavanagh, Consultant Radiologist, Taunton and Somerset NHS Trust and Lesley Bentley, Chair Patient Liaison Group, Royal College of Surgeons.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 10th June 2008:
The focus of this meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Patient Safety was to discuss what advances are being made in ensuring that the risks of surgery are being minimised for patients. There have been many innovative developments in the world of surgery in recent years, which have brought huge advances to modern surgical techniques, and are now less invasive such as laser eye surgery and key-hole surgery. However, surgery still poses significant risks to patients – from the possibility of infection, damage to other organs and wrong-sided procedures.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 18th March 2008:
The focus of this meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Patient Safety was to discuss the Government plans to streamline the three bodies that monitor hospital, care homes and mental health services into a single regulator known as the Care Quality Commission (CQC) by April 2009.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting - 5 December 2007
The focus of this meeting of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Patient Safety was the key patient safety challenges facing the Department of Health and the wider healthcare community in 2008 and beyond.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 27 June 2007
This meeting was an opportunity for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, the Patient Safety Minister to set out the Department of Health’s long-term approach to ensuring patient safety across the NHS.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 22 March 2007
The focus of this meeting was an overview of patient safety in 2007.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 24 October 2006
The focus of this meeting was to examine what information technology can bring to improving patient safety. The group heard from three speakers, including Health Minister, Andy Burnham.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 6 June 2006
This meeting was an opportunity to look at the need to address patient safety in healthcare provided in the home.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 14 March 2006
This meeting looked at the existence of a blame culture in the NHS and how healthcare can learn from other industries, such as aviation, to solve the problems around patient safety.
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Patient Safety APPG Meeting – 24 October 2005
The focus of the meeting was limiting litigation in the NHS in the context of the NHS Redress Bill.
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