Patient Safety

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Oct 5, 2025 • via The Times

The Invisible Doctors: How Britain's Medical Regulator Lost Track of Who It's Licensing

Overseas doctors with serious misconduct records are practicing in the NHS with clean UK licenses

The Sunday Times revealed this week that at least 22 doctors banned or disciplined overseas are practicing in the NHS with clean UK medical licenses. One had sex with patients. Another missed life-threatening conditions on scans. A third sexually harassed colleagues. The General Medical Council either failed to discover these facts or chose not to disclose them.

Jun 30, 2025 • via The Independent

When Prevention Becomes Performance: The NHS AI Alarm System

Monitoring Failures Instead of Fixing Them

The NHS announced an AI system to detect patient safety scandals early, following murders by nurse Lucy Letby and 1,200 deaths at Mid Staffordshire Hospital. While positioned as preventive innovation, the technology monitors failures rather than addressing their root cause: chronic understaffing that leaves single nurses caring for 15+ patients. This represents classic institutional decline - sophisticated failure detection replacing basic competence in prevention.