What is it about?
Blame culture has had a devastating effect on staff morale resulting in trained staff leaving the organisation
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The author discusses problem and the importance of identifying the fact that most errors are system failures and not eliminated by punishing the individuals involved.
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The system should encourage error reporting and create a blame free system of analysing errors
Dr Subrahmanyan Radhakrishna
University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire
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This page is a summary of: Culture of blame in the National Health Service; consequences and solutions, British Journal of Anaesthesia, June 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP),
DOI: 10.1093/bja/aev152.
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