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Annual Speak Up Data Reports.

September 6, 2023

Stratford, London; The National Guardian.

Organizational efforts to collect and respond to the concerns of staff and patients are a cornerstone to patient safety improvement despite challenges to implement them. This annual report presents insights drawn from problems staff share with Freedom to Speak Up Guardians in the United Kingdom to capitalize on problems to drive improvement. The 2023 report summarized data collected from over 25,000 cases recorded.

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