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Patients: Safety

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 911420, tabled on 18 June 2019

What steps he is taking to ensure NHS patient safety.

Answered on

18 June 2019

Patient safety remains a key priority for the National Health Service. NHS Improvement and NHS England are developing a new National Patient Safety Strategy that will sit alongside the NHS Long Term Plan.

The strategy will be published this summer and will build on existing work to provide a coherent framework that the whole NHS can recognise and support

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