Improving the Health Care of an Entire Country
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Jason Leitch
National Clinical Lead for Safety & Improvement, Scottish Government
Health Foundation/Institute for Healthcare Improvement Fellow
Is it possible to cut adverse events by 30 percent – and hospital mortality by 15 percent – across an entire country? The Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) is an ambitious attempt to do just that.
Note: This interview was filmed in December 2008. Since then, the SPSP has seen some remarkable successes. One region saw a 50-percent reduction in
Clostridium difficile infections. As of September 2009, another region with twelve hospitals had gone a whopping 21 months without a central line infection. Read more about the
Scottish Patient Safety Programme.
