Implementing patient safety : addressing culture, conditions, and values to help people work safely

Text covers: Create a balanced approach to safety; Turn the theory into practice; Urgently tackle the culture of blame; Care for the people that care; Plant trees you will never see.

This book combines the latest thinking in safety, including creating a balanced approach to learning from what works as a way to understand why it fails, together with the evidence on building a just culture, positive workplaces and working relationships. It helps people understand how to address issues despite their complexities and improve safety with practical ways to truly understand what day to day healthcare work is actually like, rather than what people imagine it is like.