This week’s Adult Social Care Briefing covers the new MHRA hoist and sling safety alert, adult social care transformation funding, the 2026 workforce survey and the latest ADASS funding position, with practical actions for providers.
Most medication error investigations identify what happened. Fewer explain why it happened. This article explores how learning, culture, human factors and governance can reveal far more than the error itself.
When something goes wrong, nobody asks to see the training matrix. They ask whether the person had the knowledge, skills and competence to provide safe care
