Abstract
BackgroundEnabling healthcare staff to report concerns is critical for improving patient safety. Junior doctors are one of the groups least likely to engage in incident reporting. This matters both for...
Highlights
Errors, adverse events, and sub-optimal care remain common in healthcare and pose significant risks to patient safety.[1]
Participants were supportive of the idea of playing a role in helping healthcare organisations become more aware of risks to patient safety, but identified that existing incident reporting systems could frustrate efforts to report concerns
Adverse events, and sub-optimal care remain common in healthcare and pose significant risks to patient safety.[1]. Many staff working on the frontline will experience adverse events; learning from these experiences is an important way for organisations to improve the quality and safety of patient care.[2]. In the UK, healthcare staff have a professional duty to raise and act on concerns about patient safety,(3) and recent years have seen the widespread adoption of formal incident reporting systems in hospitals to enable staff to report on their experiences of adverse events and unsafe care
Summary
Adverse events, and sub-optimal care remain common in healthcare and pose significant risks to patient safety.[1]. In the course of their rotations they have an opportunity to observe practices in different settings within the hospital, and they can act as ’fresh eyes’ in identifying problems and risks. They may become aware of wider organisational problems that impact across different wards or units within the hospital. Junior doctors are one of the groups least likely to engage in incident reporting This matters both for the present and for the future, as many will eventually be in leadership positions. Little is known about junior doctors’ attitudes towards formally reporting concerns
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