News archive - December 2010

17 December 2010
Failsafe in the NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme

Failsafe is a back-up mechanism, in addition to usual care, which ensures if something goes wrong in the screening pathway, processes are in place to (i) identify what is going wrong and (ii) what action follows to ensure a safe outcome. The infectious diseases in pregnancy screening programme has now published its failsafe processes, based on the new Map of Medicine care pathway.