Improving patient safety by shifting power from health professionals to patients
Patients and carers are key partners in the quest to make care safer, argues Tessa Richards The UK government's commitment to implement “Martha’s rule,” is good news for patients.1 It will give patients and their families an explicit right to request a second opinion if a patient’s health condition is getting worse and they feel their concerns are not being taken seriously. A similar rule, called Ryan’s rule, introduced in Queensland, Australia in 2013 was spurred by the activism of the parents of a three year old boy who, as in Martha’s case, died a preventable death. It's been wi...
Source: bmj.com