By January 2008 the watchdog had identified seven different patient safety alerts at Stafford: warning signs that there were problems.
In addition, the safety alerts are issued only once companies take corrective action, other commission officials emphasized.
Other commission officials emphasized that safety alerts only were issued once companies, like Toyota, actually had taken some corrective measures.
The program sends out about 20 safety alerts a month to the aviation agency or other industry groups highlighting potential problems.
The site already gives a number of other verdicts on every hospital, such as infection rates and response to patient safety alerts.
Safety alerts are not a blizzard of paper; there were just 53 in the six years covered by the study, affecting both hospitals and primary care.
In the past we have been able to use that testing information to inform on-site services and for generalised safety alerts".
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American and European regulators issued safety alerts on Thursday about Multaq, a drug approved two years ago to treat abnormal heart rhythms.
For example, Tameside had failed to implement large numbers of patient safety alerts at the same time as it had high mortality rates.
Patient safety alerts 'not working'.
