Signing up to safety – lessons from Virginia Mason

Signing up to safety – lessons from Virginia Mason Virginia Mason Medical Centre in Seattle provide a route map for the journey to safe, effective, patient-centred and efficient health care, says Professor Stephen Singleton in this blog. He welcomes Jeremy Hunt's invitation to the English NHS to 'sign up to safety' and get going on this journey, and discusses some of the barriers and pitfalls that must be dealt with along the way. The Health Foundation