Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

Drug and medical device alerts and safety updates can be found at this web site (MHRA). 'Yellow card' notifications for adverse drug reactions are made through this part of the MHRA web site (Yellow Card scheme).

NHS England 

NHS England carry provide a range of guidance, alerts and policy on patient safety related matters. Details can be found at these two sites:

High quality care for all

Looking Forward for Action.

National Patient Safety Agency

Although the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) stopped operating in 2012 the web site still contains a lot of valuable patient safety information. The alerts and advice issued by the NPSA is still utilised within the NHS except where superceeded my new guidance. Details can be found at http://www.npsa.nhs.uk/

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement

Like the NPSA, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement is no longer operating but useful resources can still be found at the web site. The Productive ward' initiative and other work and tools to support change can be found here: http://www.institute.nhs.uk/safer_care/general/patient_safety_first.html

The Health Foundation

This is an independent charity and an organisation that works to improve the quality of healthcare provsion in the UK. Details can be found at this web site.