Action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities

Cian Wade; Akanksha Mimi Malhotra; Priscilla McGuire; Charles Vincent; Aidan Fowler

doi:10.1136/bmj-2021-067090

Action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities

BMJ. 2022 Mar 29:376:e067090. doi: 10.1136/bmj-2021-067090.

Authors

Cian Wade^{1

2}, Akanksha Mimi Malhotra³, Priscilla McGuire⁴, Charles Vincent⁵, Aidan Fowler⁴

Affiliations

¹ NHS England and NHS Improvement, London, UK cianwade@mac.com.
² Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
³ Health Foundation, London, UK.
⁴ NHS England and NHS Improvement, London, UK.
⁵ Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.

Abstract

Providers and health systems should use ethnic differences in risk of harm from healthcare to reimagine their role in reducing health inequalities, write Cian Wade and colleagues

MeSH terms

Health Status Disparities*
Humans
Patient Safety*
Policy Making
Socioeconomic Factors