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Working together for health service equity for blind and partially sighted people.

Helen Hughes, Chief Executive of the charity Patient Safety Learning, tells us more about World Patient Safety Day 2024 and why this year’s theme of ‘Improving diagnosis for patient safety’’ is so important.

Sarah Berry, Public Affairs Manager, British Society for Rheumatology writes about the recent findings of the Lord Public Services Committee report, Homecare Services: An opportunity lost.

covid:aid is the UK’s charity for all those significantly affected by Covid-19, and has been uniquely set up to act as an open and collaborative partner and platform for healthcare providers, charities, and other groups – ensuring people and organisations can find and access support tailored to their needs, wherever that may be.

1 million people in the UK cannot speak English well. They have less ‘good’ health than English speakers. Yet translated health information is largely absent from strategies to tackle health inequality. NHS.uk and the NHS App are provided in English only. PIF’s new guidance on health information translation calls for a new approach.

Last month Patient Safety Learning published an independent report written by risk expert Tim Edwards. The report highlights serious and widespread safety concerns around the misdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism. In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Chief Executive Helen Hughes discusses how the charity is now working with Tim to raise awareness of his findings and to help improve pulmonary embolism outcomes.

Miles Sibley from the Patient Experience Library argues that the government’s forthcoming Data Strategy for Health and Social Care needs to focus on the basic realities of person-centred care.