Safety and Improvement in Primary Care: The Essential Guide

'In recent decades most of the international effort given over to studyingand improving the safety of patient care has been focused in acutehospital settings. To some extent this was always something of a puzzleto those of us with a direct interest in this important issue... Now, however,the tide is slowly turning. Policymakers, healthcare leaders and researchgrant funders are beginning to recognise that greater evidence is requiredto understand more about what can and does go wrong in primary care,with increasing attention now being paid to what can be done to minimiseavoidable harm to patients in this setting.' From the PrefaceThis remarkable new book representsa substantial body of work - led by keyeducators and researchers - devoted tolearning about and improving the safety ofprimary healthcare. It offers highly practical guidance andevidence for a broad range of relatedimprovement methods, concepts andinterventions developed and implementedby the NES primary care team, or asa direct result of fruitful partnershipsbetween academic, professional, public orregulatory institutions across the UK andinternationally. Skillfully presented, the book is organisedinto five interlinked parts, each with anumber of related chapters. Safety and Improvement in Primary Care:The Essential Guide is ideal for frontlineclinicians, managers and healthcareadministrators needing practical guidanceon safety and is also highly recommendedfor improvement advisers, patient safetyofficers, clinical governance facilitators, riskmanagers, and health services researcherswanting a critical review of theory andevidence.