Health Bill: patient safety - fact sheet

Outlines the proposed legislative changes in the Health Bill to the way patient safety is being strengthened

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Health Bill: patient safety - fact sheet

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The Health Bill is supporting 2 overarching aims:

• improve patient safety and experience through a new single patient record (SPR), enabling joined-up, proactive care and empowering patients
• put power and resources in the hands of NHS organisations providing direct patient care by abolishing NHS England and stripping back national bureaucracy

See the Health Bill collection page for the bill’s other supporting documents:

• impact assessments
• equality impact assessments
• other fact sheets

From: Department of Health and Social Care