Patient safety, at its simplest, is the attempt to understand, reduce and ameliorate the harm to patients caused by healthcare rather than disease.

This new edition will:

Have an even stronger practical emphasis on what can be done to improve the safety of healthcare. The first edition contained four chapters on these themes, whereas the second will have seven

Include a greatly expanded discussion of team based initiatives

Provide experiences of transforming whole organisations and health economies to bring safer care to patients.