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In this perspective, the chair designate of the Healthcare Services Safety Investigation Body (HSSIB), the new arm's length body transitioning from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), reflects on how the Francis Inquiry was instrumental in changing the view of patient safety in the NHS, the role of HSIB over the last 5 years in identifying systemic causes of patient harm and what the future holds for HSSIB.
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Most temperature measurements are not so much concerned with absolute accuracy as repeatability, since focused on is whether the temperature is stable, moving up or moving down and by what rate of change. This is not the case, however, with temperature measurement within sterilisers, stresses Ted Baker, managing director, Isopharm Sentry.