Professor Chris Baggoley, Chief Executive, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare, has sent in the following comment re the recent post on whether Australian hospitals should be implementing the WHO surgical safety checklist to reduce deaths and complications associated with surgery:
“The Commission is very keen to work with (and has spoken to) the [...]
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