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2012:year of conscience and responsability of physicians
The IEU-Alliance is:
- a member of the International Alliance of Patients Organisations IAPO and

-partner of USA based Patient-Safety.com.

NEWS

06/03/2012: New book for victims of medical errors in Germany, see News

28/02/2012: Millons of hips implanted as experiment, without informed consent, see News

21/02/2012: Debate on European black list of dysfunctioning physicians, see News

01/01/2012: 2012 year of conscience and responsability. See News

09/11/2011: More success with disclosure of medical errors. See Stanford daily

12/05/2011: Lockton report on disclosure of medical errors. See News

14/01/2011: Surgical checklists prevent medical errors in the Netherlands. See News

18/10/2010: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science by Dr.John Ioannidis. See the Atlantic

27/9/2010: Medical errors. How can we reverse the trend? See Newsweek

27/4/2010: New website for reporting medical errors by patients www.empoweredpatientcoalition.org

9/2/2010: New book by Rosemary Gibson "The Treatment Trap" Read article

3/2/2010: Malpractice Insurance for Patients Read article

14/1/2010: EU Commisioner Healthcare John Dalli heard by European Parliament Read article

17/12/2009: Holding doctors accountable for their errors, see NY Times

1/12/2009: Non-disclosure of medical errors is an egregious violation of ethical principles,
Ghana Medical Journal 2009 download here

15/10/2009: Report finds 9,400 serious errors at N.J. hospitals, Oct 15 th 2009 See News

03/08/2009: Safe Patient Project -Consumers Union- conclusion: No real progress after Report "To err is human", 1999. Download the Document here.

07/07/2009: European Commission positive about blacklist of physicians, News.

21/06/2009|Blacklisting patients, article from www.patient-safety.com.
Download the document here.

21/06/2009|Global patient safety priorities, article in British Medical Journal, May 14th 2009.
Download the document here.

15/12/2008 | Commission of the European Union takes steps to promote patient safety in Europe
The European Commission issued a pressrelease concerning measures and specific actions member states can take to improve the safety of patients. Click here to read the pressrelease.

15/12/2008 | Commission of the European Union takes steps to promote patient safety in Europe
The European Commission issued a pressrelease concerning measures and specific actions member states can take to improve the safety of patients. Click here to read the pressrelease.

06/10/2008 | 10 commandments to minimize medical errors
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01/05/2008 | IEU publishes new chapter on Tell & Repair legal provision
Click here to view the new chapter.

28/04/2008 | Canadian Institute for Patient Safety publishes Guidelines on Disclosure, Spring 2008
see Tell & Repair

23/04/2008 | Report first Dutch national conference victims of medical errors 23rd April 2008
see News and our Powerpoint presentation.

04/04/2008 | Facts & Figures on medical errors placed on IEU-alliance.eu
As of today you will be able to find a variety of data, interesting facts and figures related to medical errors. Absolutely worth checking out! You can find the facts and figures by clicking here.

January 16th 2008: Sophie Hankes IEU-Alliance discusses the Tell and Repair legal proposal with Minister Klink (NL) of Healthcare and presents a letter to him. You can find the letter here.

On the 19th December 2007 Nico Oudendijk Deputy Inspector General Inspectorate of Health Care has signed the Tell and Repair legal proposal in a meeting with Sophie Hankes SIN-NL / IEU-Alliance.

On the 7th of November 2007 the Association of Medical Consultants, the Association of Hospitals and the Association of Nurses and Caregivers in the Netherlands acknowledged that they generally do not inform victims of medical errors in an honest way and generally do not give adequate remedial medical care to these victims!
They agreed to formulate a proposal before the 15th of March 2008 to improve medical care to the present and future victims of medical errors. They agreed to base the proposal on the Tell and Repair legal provision.
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