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Learning from excellence and patient safety incidents
  1. Jennifer Cooper,
  2. Natalie MacLeod,
  3. Huw Williams,
  4. Andrew Carson-Stevens
  1. Primary Care Patient Safety Research Group, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Andrew Carson-Stevens, Primary Care Patient Safety Research Group Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University, Neuadd Meirionydd, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4YS, UK; carson-stevensap{at}cardiff.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2016-312445

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    The positive principles espoused by the Learning from Excellence team, particularly the emphasis on moving away from a blame culture, which can hold back effective learning from ‘adverse incident reporting’, are to be encouraged. However, to completely ‘eliminate …

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    • Contributors AC-S, HW, JC and NM discussed the article by Kelly et al and agreed on the content of the response. JC and NM drafted the letter, and AC-S and HW were also involved in editing.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.