Patient Safety

Safety & Risk

Patient safety fails when guidance is static, outdated, or invisible.

Most incidents we review involve PDFs, silent updates, or thresholds no one knew had moved.

Hub index of guides, controls, and links — not a single article.

Guidance delivery risk Version visibility Threshold clarity

Failure modes we keep seeing

  • Outdated PDFs or silent surveillance updates.
  • Threshold drift for referral, prescribing, and monitoring.
  • Local intranet lag: “Based on NICE (2018)”.
  • On-call access gaps: shared drives, screenshots, WhatsApp.

Controls that prevent these

change log

See what changed and when, including surveillance updates.

Related capabilities

Risk Management

Audit trails and change visibility to spot safety drift early.

Related system capabilities

Safety & assurance

How CliniSearch makes versioned, cited guidance visible without automating clinical judgement.

Audit traceability

Version-locked exports, change logs, and activity records used for incident review and QI.

Information governance

Source provenance, update cadence, and distribution controls to avoid drift and duplication.

What good looks like

Timestamped recommendation

Include guideline ID, date, and source link on every recommendation.

Threshold card

Show the current referral or prescribing number with last updated and source.

Change log excerpt

List what changed and when, with filters for thresholds and drug updates.

If you need this visible at the point of care, it lives in the canonical guidance view.