
Different strokes for different folks: Two patient safety tales
A bit about me I’ve been a researcher and part-time PhD student at SAPPHIRE at the University of Leicester for nearly four years. My day-to-day work is concerned with exploring how NHS hospitals ensure and improve patient safety – particularly focusing on organisational culture– while my PhD research is concerned with exploring patient safety from […]

Cutting for Stone: Healing with kindness
Too often debates about ‘best practice’ in healthcare are held in remote forums, inaccessible to the people whose lives they impact because of physical distance, expensive paywalls and subscription policies, or unintelligible jargon. I was therefore delighted to read Abraham Verghese’s 2009 novel Cutting for Stone and find it dealing with issues of medicine, healing, […]
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