News archive
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Nursing & Midwifery Council report: statement from AvMA
May 16, 2018Professional Standards Authority report into NMC handling of cases connected to the Furness General Hospital is a damning indictment of the organisation’s culture.
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Breast screening disaster: statement from AvMA
May 2, 2018AvMA is warning that the more the NHS is reliant on technology, the greater risk there is that the breast screening disaster announced by Jeremy Hunt may be repeated in different ways.
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Nominations open for inaugural patient safety engagement award
March 26, 2018NHS organisations who have excelled in engaging patients and families in patient safety work can now be nominated for a brand new award. Launched by Patient Safety Learning and sponsored by AvMA, this new award is looking for innovative projects which have made a demonstrable difference to patient safety and have the potential to be replicated in other organisations.
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Government must listen to public and experts over clinical negligence
February 15, 2018AvMA is concerned that the Government intends to plough ahead with crude plans to introduce fixed recoverable costs in clinical negligence at the expense of access to justice and patient safety.
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Victims of NHS negligence should not lose out because of under investment in patient safety and the NHS
February 2, 2018AvMA is shocked and disappointed by calls for people whose lives have been ruined by NHS negligence to be denied the compensation they need and deserve, in order to ease the funding crisis in the NHS.