Crossrail, the cross-London high-speed rail link, has an amber-green status, while HS2, the north-south link, has the same amber-red status as the Department for Work and Pension's fraud and error programme, and its plans to introduce personal independence payments.
Initiation of a prescriber-directed error feedback programme was associated with an 83% reduction in narcotic prescribing errors, an elimination of approximately 5 6 erroneous narcotic prescriptions per month.
21 22 The purpose of this paper is to report the development of a prescribing error feedback programme, and its impact on narcotic prescribing errors.
A prescribing error feedback programme was successfully implemented by using the model for improvement for its development and refinement, and engaging frontline clinicians in the process.
The team identified four primary drivers ('must do's') for a successful error feedback programme as (1) maximise error reporting, (2) optimise data analysis, (3) determine best feedback strategy and (4) ensure bidirectional communication between prescriber and feedback team.
UK doctors were much more likely to report that they had taken part in a formal medical error reduction programme (70.9% UK vs 55.7% US, p<0.001), but US doctors were much more likely to agree about the need for periodic recertification examinations compared with UK doctors (23.4% UK vs 53.9% US, p<0.001).
15 In our survey, only just over half of both UK and US doctors had actually taken part in peer review of a colleague's records in the previous 3 years, but UK doctors were more likely to endorse the value of peer review of their colleagues' medical records and more likely to have participated in a formal error reduction programme.
UK doctors were more likely to have developed practice guidelines (82.8% UK vs 49.6% US, p<0.001) and to have taken part in a formal medical error-reduction programme (70.9% UK vs 55.7% US, p<0.001).
Too many Blairite ultras are guilty of that error, treating his programme as holy writ whose every detail must be followed even now.
Outside, waiting for a bus to take him back to his asylum seekers' home, Kifork, the Damascan hairdresser, pointed out an unfortunate translation error on the programme.
