News story

The role of patient safety

The Department of Health's White Paper, Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS, puts safety services at the heart of its proposals.  The supporting consultation document on the development of an outcomes framework also has patient safety as a key focus.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 25 July 2011

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

More information

• About patient safety
• ‘Never events’ list 2011/12
• Microbiology and infection control

Published 25 July 2011