Review of Patient Safety Across the Health and Care Landscape

Review of patient safety across the health and care landscape

Dr Penny Dash's review of patient safety across the health and care landscape in England, which was commissioned by the Department of Health and Social Care.

National strategy to define what constitutes good-quality adult social care

The government will produce a national strategy for quality in adult social care after a review found there had been a lack of attention paid to what constitutes good services in the sector. In a parliamentary statement, health and social care secretary Wes Streeting said that the government had accepted in full all the recommendations from a review into patient safety across health and care by NHS England chair Dr Penny Dash, published yesterda…

Penny Dash review ignores nursing workforce crisis, warns RCN

The Royal College of Nursing has warned that government reforms to improve patient safety will “fall short” unless the nursing workforce crisis on wards is urgently address.

NHS patient safety review finds “relatively small improvements” despite deployment of “considerable resources” and insufficient use of NHS data – HTN Health Tech News

A review commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care into six organisations overseeing the safety of care has been completed, with Dr Penny Dash publishing ten main findings and a total of nine recommendations. Headline findings include that despite a shift toward safety and “considerable resources deployed”, relatively small improvements have been seen; that tech, data and analytics should play a “far more significant role…

DHSC board will block unfunded safety recommendations

A “revamped, revitalised and reinforced” National Quality Board will decide what safety and quality recommendations the NHS will adopt, with an eye to their cost-effectiveness, the long-awaited Dash Review has said.

NHS Confederation welcomes Dr Penny Dash’s review into patient safety

It is vital that when things go wrong there are ways for patients to report it and for NHS organisations to learn from mistakes.