Improving Patient Safety: Risk Management within Maternity Services
(Apr 13)
Maternity services are particularly susceptible to risk; and although (in my experience in the UK) these services tend to be more risk aware than other specialties within a healthcare organisation, there is still a need to improve safety and reduce the number of adverse incidents. Maternity services must introduce a systematic approach to the management of risk, which involves all clinical staff, which continually evolves and which leads to improvement in the care that is offered to women and their babies.
