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Serious about safety
Ensuring a safe and high quality service is central to what the NHS does.
The Board of Directors of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals has prioritised safety in its business plan.
We have a Care Quality Board, which brings together clinical and operational leadership, to review the quality of care delivered against measures such as infection rates, serious untoward incidents, patient-reported outcomes and other care quality measures.
The Care Quality Commission monitors us along with all other NHS Trusts. Many of the ways they use to measure us are based on our safety. You can read about how we do against these measures on their website:
Clinical Governance
The process through which we ensure high quality and safe care is called 'Clinical Governance'.
You can read about the work we are doing to encourage safety on these pages.
You can help too
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Please clean your hands (use the hand gel available) before entering wards or helping to feed friends or relatives who are patients.
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Please do not visit if you have a cold, cough or other infectious disease. Particularly in winter there can be alot of diarrhoea and vomiting illnesses around – please don't visit if you are suffering, or even feel nauseous.
Infection control and hygiene
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Please make sure that there are not more than two visitors at a time by a patient's bed. Do not sit on the bed.
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If you bring children to visit the hospital, please make sure they are properly supervised.
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Please get involved in understanding your care or that of a relative if they wish it. This can particularly help you or relatives when leaving hospital.
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Please let us know if you think there are ways we could improve the safety or quality of the care we provide. Feedback does make a difference in helping us improve.
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