Notes on contributors
Preface
JOHN TINGLE, CLAYTON O NEILL AND MORGAN SHIMWELL
1 Patient safety policy development in the NHS in England
JOHN TINGLE
2 The health law, ethics and patient safety interface
JONATHAN HERRING
3 Patient safety and substantive English medical law
CHARLES FOSTER
4 Board governance for better, safer healthcare
RUSSELL MANNION, HUW DAVIES, ROSS MILLAR AND TIM FREEMAN
5 Speaking up or blowing the whistle for better, safer care
RUSSELL MANNION, HUW DAVIES, JOHN BLENKINSOPP, JEAN V. MCHALE, ROSS MILLAR, MARTIN POWELL AND NICK SNOWDEN
6 Patient safety, the 'safe space' and the duty of candour: Reconciling the irreconcilable?
JEAN V. MCHALE
7 Religious and cultural beliefs: The potential for patient safety to be compromised
CLAYTON O NEILL
8 Patient safety in Oman
AISHA RASHID AL MAQBALI AND AHMED AL-MANDHARI
9 State adverse health incident reporting systems in the United States: An introduction and contextual discussion
BARBARA A. NOAH
10 Adverse health events in Minnesota
RACHEL JOKELA
11 The role of regulatory frameworks in Latvian patient safety culture
EVIJA PALCEJA AND AGNESE BANKAVA
12 Patient safety in Thailand
PIYAWAN LIMPANYALERT
13 Patient safety in Uganda
KAY SEDEN AND REGINA KAMOGA
14 Patient safety in Nigeria: An emergent concept
CHELUCHI ONYEMELUKWE
15 A critical analysis of patient safety strategies in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)
AZHIN OMER
16 Patient safety and the health transition: Understanding and addressing the high level of lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases in the Pacific region
ROY SMITH
17 The Japanese Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy - a case study of a no-fault compensation system
SHIN USHIRO
18 Conclusion: Global patient safety - power of the dream
CLAYTON O NEILL, MORGAN SHIMWELL AND JOHN TINGLE
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