This book explores patient safety themes in developed, developing and transitioning countries. It uses the concept of 'reverse innovation' as mutual learning from the chapters challenges traditional assumptions about what knowledge is produced where, and how it resides.

Notes on contributors

Preface

JOHN TINGLE, CLAYTON Ó NÉILL AND MORGAN SHIMWELL

1 Patient safety policy development in the NHS in England

JOHN TINGLE

2 The health law, ethics and patient safety interface

JONATHAN HERRING

3 Patient safety and substantive English medical law

CHARLES FOSTER

4 Board governance for better, safer healthcare

RUSSELL MANNION, HUW DAVIES, ROSS MILLAR AND TIM FREEMAN

5 Speaking up or blowing the whistle for better, safer care

RUSSELL MANNION, HUW DAVIES, JOHN BLENKINSOPP, JEAN V. MCHALE, ROSS MILLAR, MARTIN POWELL AND NICK SNOWDEN

6 Patient safety, the 'safe space' and the duty of candour: Reconciling the irreconcilable?

JEAN V. MCHALE

7 Religious and cultural beliefs: The potential for patient safety to be compromised

CLAYTON Ó NÉILL

8 Patient safety in Oman

AISHA RASHID AL MAQBALI AND AHMED AL-MANDHARI

9 State adverse health incident reporting systems in the United States: An introduction and contextual discussion

BARBARA A. NOAH

10 Adverse health events in Minnesota

RACHEL JOKELA

11 The role of regulatory frameworks in Latvian patient safety culture

EVIJA PALCEJA AND AGNESE BANKAVA

12 Patient safety in Thailand

PIYAWAN LIMPANYALERT

13 Patient safety in Uganda

KAY SEDEN AND REGINA KAMOGA

14 Patient safety in Nigeria: An emergent concept

CHELUCHI ONYEMELUKWE

15 A critical analysis of patient safety strategies in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI)

AZHIN OMER

16 Patient safety and the health transition: Understanding and addressing the high level of lifestyle-related non-communicable diseases in the Pacific region

ROY SMITH

17 The Japanese Obstetric Compensation System for Cerebral Palsy - a case study of a no-fault compensation system

SHIN USHIRO

18 Conclusion: Global patient safety - power of the dream

CLAYTON Ó NÉILL, MORGAN SHIMWELL AND JOHN TINGLE

Index

John Tingle is a Barrister and Associate Professor in Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Clayton Ó Néill is a Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

Morgan Shimwell is a Lecturer in Law at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK.