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AvMA welcomes new trustees
August 31, 2023 | LatestWe welcome three new trustees and an associate trustee to our board. They bring a wealth of experience to ensure that AvMA, as a charity, fulfils its purpose of campaigning for improvement in patient safety and access to justice when harm occurs during medical treatment. Dr. Jane Hawdon joins us as a trustee. Jane […]
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Lucy Letby: Reflections one week on
August 25, 2023 | BlogThis week, Paul reflects on the wider issues arising from the Lucy Letby case and shares some thoughts about ensuring that we do not miss the opportunities this horrific case provides to make a positive step change in patient safety.
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Lucy Letby – Reflections and Reaction
August 18, 2023 | LatestNurse Lucy Letby has been found guilty of murdering seven babies and trying to kill another six babies at the Countess of Chester Hospital. Read Paul’s reflections and reaction to the case and trial
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Reading the signals – will it be different this time?
August 1, 2023 | Blog‘Blaming the problem on frontline staff – something we at AvMA still see – is not good enough.’
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Dear NHS, Happy 75 Birthday
July 5, 2023 | Blog | LatestWe at AvMA write to wish you a happy birthday. Well done for making it to this grand age; what an achievement. We doubt that many alive in 1948, the year of your birth, will have believed for one moment that you would have survived so many ups and downs, funding squeezes and political interferences (not all helpful), and made it to 75.