Healthcare organisations are often encouraged to learn from other industries in order to
develop proactive and rigorous safety management practices. In the UK safety–critical …

Safety in healthcare is a relatively recent field, but has received considerable attention over
the past 15 years. Healthcare organisations have been encouraged to learn from safety …

Patients are continually being put at risk of harm, and health care organisations are
struggling to learn effectively from past experiences in order to improve the safe delivery and …

Incident reporting as a key mechanism for organisational learning and the establishment of
a stronger safety culture are pillars of the current patient safety movement. Studies have …

Objectives Handover across care boundaries poses additional challenges due to the
different professional, organizational and cultural backgrounds of the participants involved …

Abstract Resilient Health Care (RHC) is predicated on the idea that health care systems
constantly adjust to changing circumstances. RHC has become increasingly popular as a …

Background Young people (aged 16–24 years) with long-term health conditions tend to
disengage from health services, resulting in poor health outcomes. They are prolific users of …

Interventions to reduce risk often have an associated cost. In UK industries decisions about
risk reduction are made and justified within a shared regulatory framework that requires that …

In this section we provide from our fieldwork one illustrative example of how practitioners
make dynamic trade-offs in order to reconcile tensions in their activities and to deliver safe …

Background Inadequate handover in emergency care is a threat to patient safety. Handover
across care boundaries poses particular problems due to different professional …