National Patient Safety Board Workgroup

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation is seeking ideas and feedback around how we could form a National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) in the United States. Workgroup members outside of the United States are welcome but the focus of the workgroup will be the formation of a NPSB in America. If you haven’t read the white paper that we published in September 2020 on the subject, click here.

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