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August 2025 CEO Blog
Studying Law and Specialising – Tahirah’s experience with AvMA
The CQC – Losing and Hopefully Now Finding Its Way
Only 2 in 5 see the Duty of Candour as being clear – why?
Patient Safety Principles and their practical application
Advocacy and Accountability: the need for manifest(o) change
The Hughes Report: the hidden trade-offs in no-fault compensation schemes
Reflecting on My First Year as CEO of AvMA
Lucy Letby: Reflections one week on
Lucy Letby – Reflections and Reaction
Reading the signals – will it be different this time?
Dear NHS, Happy Birthday!
What price justice?
Black maternal mortality disparities: 50 years on and we are still “counting”
Optimism was in the wind at the AvMA Conference in Bournemouth
Meet the #ACNC2023 AvMA Team
Is Patient Safety on Life Support?
Is the Government trying to bury bad news?
Urgent action required to prevent avoidable harm and deaths amongst non COVID-19 patients
Saving lives threatened by COVID19 is rightly a priority, but many more can be saved by improving patient safety
When will we see a genuine step-change in patient safety?
Clinical Negligence: Human cost of avoidable NHS errors outweighs financial cost
A fresh approach to patient safety?
Mediating clinical claims: a mediator’s eye view
Cutting compensation for those maimed by the NHS would be ‘hideously unfair’
What kind of workplace culture do we want?
Two reports challenging failings in the current health safety management system
Better regulation is needed for duty of candour to fulfil its potential
The Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch: Glass half full or half empty?
Is criminal prosecution of doctors harming patient safety?
The current legal duty of candour
Recognising ‘what good looks like’
Why does it always have to be such a battle?
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