Patient Safety #2: Safe Staff, Safe Patients

Dr Melvyn Chin, Associate Director, ECRI Asia-Pacific | Dr Timothy Cheng, Chairman, Malaysian Medical Association SCHOMOS

12-Nov-25 16:00

Patient Safety #2: Safe Staff, Safe Patients

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In the second episode of the mini-series on patient safety, we take a deeper dive into the inextricable link between the health workforce and patient safety. Together with Dr Melvyn Chin, Associate Director, ECRI Asia-Pacific and Dr Timothy Cheng, Chairman of MMA SCHOMOS, we explore how burnout, poor working conditions, low wages, and lack of support for healthcare workers put patients at risk.

Click here to listen to the other episodes of this mini-series.

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Produced by: Tee Shiao Eek

Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek

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Categories: health policy

Tags: the bigger picture, health and living, patient safety, medication error, hospital, healthcare workers, patientsafetyseries,

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