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Patient safety: listen to whistleblowers.

Kirkup B, Titcombe J. Patient safety: listen to whistleblowers. BMJ. 2023;382:1972. doi:10.1136/bmj.p1972.

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September 27, 2023
Kirkup B, Titcombe J. BMJ. 2023;382:1972.
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The latent nature of failure in health care is enabled by organizational inability or unwillingness to listen and respond to the concerns of patients, families, and clinicians. This commentary discusses a rare criminal event in the British National Health System (NHS) and the factors that allowed continued criminal activity to occur over time.

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Kirkup B, Titcombe J. Patient safety: listen to whistleblowers. BMJ. 2023;382:1972. doi:10.1136/bmj.p1972.

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