title: Nutrition and patient safety a report from the National Patient Safety Agency (United Kingdom).
abstract: The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), established in 2001 as part of the U.K. National Health Service (NHS), extended it's portfolio of patient safety programmes to include nutrition in 2006. Since 2006 the focus of the NPSA's nutrition programme has been to raise awareness of nutrition as a patient safety issue and to encourage healthcare staff to report nutrition related patient safety incidents to the NPSA's reporting data base, the Reporting and Learning System, to identify key themes and areas for national learning. In the summer of 2009 the NPSA were invited by the International Hospital Federation to join the Improving Infant and Child Food Safety in Health Facilities project as a member of the Advisory Group. This opportunity allowed for the NPSA to share their experience and knowledge of nutrition patient safety themes.
authors.affiliation: Patient Safety Division, National Patient Safety Agency, UK.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lecko
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006077:Government Agencies; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D038622:Internationality; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006113:United Kingdom