"Baroness Amos’ interim report sparks a sense of déjà vu"
Our latest #patientsafety newsletter - this edition from our chair @jeremyhuntmp.bsky.social - now available via @hsj.co.uk here:-
www.hsj.co.uk/patient-safe...
We have rightly moved away from a culture of individual blame in patient safety. But in doing so, have we created a dangerous blind spot around individual responsibility and accountability?
I’m aware this may be a controversial piece!
www.hsj.co.uk/patient-safe...
Yesterday the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and @patientsafetywatch.bsky.social published their Global State of Patient Safety Report 2025
Read our response from our Interim Chief Executive, @rosiebe.bsky.social
#PatientSafety #NHS #GlobalHealth
Lovely to see you yesterday Lizzi - thanks so much for all your interest and work to push for safer healthcare nationally and locally too.
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:
READ: www.thetimes.com/article/b4fe...
The cycle of constant, repeated (affected?) shock and horror
“We need to rethink the ‘scandal’ narrative in the NHS”
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
“A midwife who worked at OUH until 2023…told me that even after the trust had changed its policy on MRCS in March 2021, a culture of promoting “natural” births remained…”
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Finally back home after 35 hours of travel - and the weather here is just like it was in Vietnam 🤣 🌧️ 🇻🇳
Keeping a little travel blog for the next 16 days - as a travel from the South to the North of Vietnam to remember Joshua and raise funds for Baby Lifeline. 🛵🇻🇳
#RememberingJoshua
vietnamsolotrip.travel.blog/2025/10/16/r...
Just setting off for Ho Chi Minh City to start my solo 16 day motorbike ride from the south to the north of Vietmam to raise funds for @babylifeline & remember Joshua on his 17th birthday.
Thanks to everyone who has supported me 🙏🏻 🛵🇻🇳
#VietnamRideForBabyLifeline
Our latest #PatientSafety newsletter from @jeremyhuntmp.bsky.social is now available via @HSJnews here:-
www.hsj.co.uk/patient-safe...
Just over a week to go before I embark on a 2000km ride from the south to the north of Vietnam in memory of Joshua & to raise funds for @babylifeline. Hugely grateful for the support so far 🙏🏻🇻🇳🛵
#VietnamRideForBabyLifeline #RememberingJoshua
www.gofundme.com/f/vietnam-so...
Up early for a day of delivering PSIRF engagement training in Lancaster with Morecambe Bay teams…
A evening ride out to #Coniston - haven’t seen it this full for a while!
Top marks form the girls for today’s effort :-) #sundayroast
Operation Anzu has seen hundreds of families sent letters by the NHS asking them to contact Staffordshire police, after a trawl of thousands of records for patients seen by this doctor:
This is so fascinating Helen, can’t wait to see the full programme when it comes out :-)
Agree, this is really significant and hugely welcome step forward.
One of the best things in the Hillsborough Law Bill is not the duty of candour on public officials, as welcome as that is, but news that bereaved families will have publicly funded legal representation at inquests. Finally an equality of arms that's been lacking for so long
A lovely time at the Lantern Festival in Ulverston with my daughter this evening - and the rain didn’t spoil the fireworks at all 😊
A wet and grey day in Cumbria - daughter is back from Uni for the weekend so cooking a roast and lighting a fire :-)
Enjoyed speaking with Liz and Darren from RLDatix at the HSJ Patient Safety Congress this week about maternity safety and the newly announced Amos investigation ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
youtu.be/R_dW1uJ1aYQ
Good to see East Kent (and Yeovil!) among others on this list of Trusts to be reviewed by Baroness Amos & her team. I'll be discussing maternity care with @dockendenltd.bsky.social, @shaunlintern.bsky.social & @jamestitcombe.bsky.social at the @hsj.co.uk Congress tmw. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A fun day with my daughter yesterday :-)
Around Joshua’s birthday is always a difficult time of year for me - so this year I’m doing something a bit different to raise money for @babylifeline.bsky.social
Hugely grateful for the support & kindness already shown 🙏
#RememberingJoshua
www.nwemail.co.uk/news/2545829...
This October, I’m riding solo by motorbike from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi - nearly 2,000km - in memory of Joshua & to raise funds for the brilliant charity @babylifeline who do amazing work to support safer maternity care.
www.gofundme.com/f/vietnam-so...
Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...
#kefalonia day 6
