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Clinical risk management: an emerging agenda for psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

David Roy
David Roy*
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Lambeth Healthcare NHS Trust, 108 Landor Road, London SW9 9NT Roy
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Health professionals are increasingly expected to take a share in the management of risk in a systematic manner. At its most blunt, clinical risk management is defined as the identification and planned response to negative events that occur during the provision of clinical care and can lead to litigation, the cost of this to the NHS is rapidly rising (Vincent & Clements, 1995). There are, of course, much broader risks to any healthcare organisation, and the approach to risk management in any organisation needs to be systematic. At the start of the process the development of a list of clinical and non-clinical areas in which failures might occur can be overwhelming to clinicians and support staff alike. Rigorous prioritisation of the process is essential, and for practitioners the first rule of sound clinical risk management is common sense.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , March 1997 , pp. 162 - 164
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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