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Patient Safety Together: learning, sharing and improving

We share up to date patient safety information to help improve our health service for everyone, including healthcare workers, service users and clients.

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HSE National Patient Safety Alerts

HSE National Patient Safety Alerts are high-priority communications issued in relation to critical patient safety issues.
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Patient Safety Supplements

Patient safety supplements share relevant quality and patient safety information for learning purposes and to raise awareness.
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Patient Safety Stories

Patient safety stories give voice to the experience of both patients/service users and staff who have been involved in, or impacted by patient safety issues.
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My journey as a patient - a staff member story

This is a story from a staff member who became a patient in the service where she worked.

A paediatric medication error - a staff story

This is Barry’s story where he explains the impact a medication error on a paediatric patient had up

Bowel cancer misdiagnosis - a family’s story

Patricia is the daughter of a man who had a misdiagnosis of his condition. The patient safety story

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Further Learning

Patient Safety Community

We are building a national community for staff working in quality and patient safety in the HSE/HSE-funded services