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Unscheduled care

Meeting the challenges in unscheduled care delivery

Unscheduled Care (UC) services provide substantial health benefits, but increasing demand is leading to unsustainable pressure on these services – discover the CUREd dataset,...
Healthcare consumers empowered by the influence of medical ‘selfies’

Healthcare consumers empowered by the influence of medical ‘selfies’

Taking medical 'selfies' and sharing them with a doctor empowers and reassures healthcare consumers, and can improve doctor-patient relationships, according to QUT. Researchers from Queensland...
Child safety: personal care products sends children to emergency room

Child safety: personal care products sends children to emergency room

Did you know that every two hours a child is sent to the emergency room due to personal care products? Discover how dangerous products...
Explore the Falsified Medicines Directive and tamper-proof pharmaceutical packaging

Explore the Falsified Medicines Directive and tamper-proof pharmaceutical packaging

Rich Quelch, global head of marketing at Origin, explores what EU serialisation means for the pharmaceutical packaging market and how far the Falsified Medicines...
Digital security in healthcare: major factors affecting patient safety

Digital security in healthcare: major factors affecting patient safety

eFax talk digital security and the best ways to prevent patient data breaches through the removal of potential risk factors from your healthcare organisation. It...
Operating room pressures: surgeons under stress make more mistakes

Operating room pressures: surgeons under stress make more mistakes

New study finds that surgeons under stress make up to 66% more mistakes on patients in the operating room. Using a technology that captured the...
Pharmacovigilance in the EU: a closer look at EudraVigilance

Pharmacovigilance in the EU: a closer look at EudraVigilance

Health Europa highlights the role of EudraVigilance in the pharmacovigilance activities of the EMA, from the launch of the revamped system in 2017 to...
Variations in the practice of airway management in intensive care units across the UK are putting children and particularly newborn babies at risk. This is the finding of a new survey led by doctors at the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, UK,

Survey reveals dangerous variations in practice between intensive care units

Variations in the practice of airway management in intensive care units across the UK are putting children and particularly newborn babies at risk. This is...
Prioritising patient safety in the NHS

Prioritising patient safety in the NHS

Jeremy Hunt, the UK secretary of state for health and social care, outlined his efforts to enhance patient safety in the NHS at the...
6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit

6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit

Health Europa attended the 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit, where global leaders Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Bill Clinton weighed...
Getting to zero – can we end preventable deaths in hospitals?

Getting to zero – can we end preventable deaths in hospitals?

Speaking to Health Europa, Joe Kiani reflects on the Patient Safety Movement Foundation’s progress towards eliminating preventable deaths in hospitals. More than three million people...

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