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4.1 Improving Services - Ensuring Patient Safety

Doctors show leadership by ensuring patient safety: assessing and managing the risk to patients associated with servicedevelopments, balancing economic considerations with the need for patient safety.

Competent doctors:

  • Identify and quantify the risk to patients using information from a range of sources
  • Use evidence, both positive and negative, to identify options
  • Use systematic ways of assessing and minimising risk
  • Monitor the effects and outcomes of change

For more information on how these competences are applied, please click on Undergraduate, Postgraduate or Continuing Practice.

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