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Hospital Trusts (Essex)

It is not just about chief executives and managers. Every single surgeon, doctor, nurse and other professional has a professional duty of care to reduce risk. To that end, and to help them, can he tell me what progress has been made in introducing the checklist procedure for individual procedures that was pioneered in the Johns Hopkins hospital and that is shown to reduce morbidity and mortality rates? Is that being taken forward throughout the health service?