Patient safety and human factors: UK wide resources
Each country within the UK has an active patient safety programme. For an overview see the pages for the individual countries:
This section of the website brings together different kinds of resources that support patient safety activities within the four UK countries.
You can:
- find details of relevant agencies
- keep up to date with campaigns and programmes across the UK
- check credible sources for guidance
- track the patient safety policy and strategy in the UK countries in the policy section
- find information about European and international initiatives.
You can also:
- read introductory material on clinical human factors from a nursing perspective at Human factors resources
- find definitions of selected patient safety and human factors terminology in the Glossary.