Source: CQC

CQC have created a series of resources, ‘learning from safety incidents’, describing a critical safety issue:

  • What happened
  • What CQC and the provider have done about it
  • The steps other providers can take to avoid it happening in their service
     

The latest issue focuses on caring for people at risk of choking. It follows the story of a man who developed aspiration pneumonia after choking on porridge that was too thick for him.

» Read the latest issue of ‘learning from safety incidents’