Author: Alan J. Card, PhD, MPH
 

Beyond Performance Management

The pandemic of avoidable patient harm may be the leading cause of death in many countries. But, rather than treating this as a public health crisis, policy makers around the world have largely treated it as a performance management issue. Responsibility for improvement is left to individual healthcare organizations and healthcare workers. [...]

Author: Jo Flemming

In the August 2013 report published by Don Berwick on behalf of the Government, he suggests as leaders we have to put patient safety at the top of our priorities. What does that mean to those leaders who are closest to the “sharp end”? [...]