The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7466 p197
25 August 2007

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Scotland funds error studies

Scotland is to spend £2.5m on research aimed at finding out why mistakes are made when patients are treated in hospital.

The money is to be spent through the Scottish Patient Safety Research Network, led by Rhona Flin, professor of applied psychology at the University of Aberdeen. The University of St Andrews and the University of Dundee will collaborate in the work.

Huw Davies, professor of health care policy and management at the University of St Andrews, said: “We need to understand the organisational and professional contexts within which these unfortunate events occur so that we are better able to design safer systems.”