Giles Birchley

Sep 19, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Helen Smith |Giles Birchley |Jonathan Ives

1 INTRODUCTION Healthcare is a safety critical sector, not least because there are numerous opportunities for healthcare professionals to act to influence patients′ wellbeing via clinical decision-making and subsequent clinical intervention (or nonintervention). Patients can be inherently vulnerable ‘by virtue of their health condition and relative lack of clinical knowledge’.