Treating patients who are ill with potentially harmful drugs, increasingly complex technology, and a large number of people involved creates an exponentially rising risk picture. Fatal accidents, misdiagnoses and mistakes are unavoidable. Indeed, Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) spends some £450 million on clinical negligence expenditure - annually.
Patient safety is therefore at the core of DNV’s risk management services for the health sector. DNV Consulting offers the following programmes to the health sector:
- Risk management portfolio for patient safety
- Risk management portfolio for performance and management
- Development programme for national and local services
- Quality management implementation and improvement
- Risk and vulnearability analysis
These services are modular and have been designed to develop a total solution for a national health service or region.
We carry out assessments and benchmarks, and recommend the most effective programmes. These are run in support of the existing management teams to enable professional resources and the breadth of knowledge to be delivered most effectively.
DNV Consulting assists with managing all risks related to running the day-to-day operations. DNV Consulting then co-operates with the health professionals in making the solutions work.
