Patient care and safety to be enhanced

Patient care and safety will be enhanced at Noble's Hospital after new ideas put forward by staff.

Three areas for improvement have been identified following a review by the Patient Safety Forum - which is made up of frontline clinicians.

Five priority themes were identified at a recent meeting and these have now been refined to three target areas - although there is a warning that some of the measures carry potential resource and funding implications.

Health Minister David Anderson explains the main points:

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