Wellcome Trust-funded postdoctoral researcher Dr. Chris Sirrs has been cited in the latest ‘National State of Patient Safety Report’, drawn up by the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London. The authors have drawn upon Chris's NHS patient safety timeline in exploring the historical background to patient safety in Britain.

This report regularly informs debates both within the health service and in Parliament.

Read the report here

Dr Christopher Sirrs, CHM Research Fellow, will be speaking at the Thackray Museum's prestigious Annual Insights Lecture Series, on the topic Insights: Hazardous Health through History on Saturday, 5 November at 10:00am.

He will be exploring the history of patient safety in the NHS, explaining why a systemic focus on the prevention of harm to patients – despite the ethical injunction for clinicians to ‘do no harm’ – only evolved surprisingly recently in the history of medicine.

Please click here to find out more information and to sign up to attend.

'The Last Taboo of Motherhood' project team are delighted to announce that they have been awarded a generous Research Enrichment - Public Engagement Award by the Wellcome Trust.

This will fund a new project with Fuel Theatre for the development of a series of audio pieces, which will highlight our work on maternal mental illness in the twentieth century. We have also received further funding from Warwick University’s Arts & Humanities Impact Award which will enable us to extend the reach of the project to a wider range of audiences. We will be providing further updates on this exciting project over the coming months on our project website.

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