On July 13, 2026, Medline Industries, LP initiated a nationwide recall of Hudson RCI Neonatal/Infant Heated Wire Breathing Circuits. Medline received reports of sporadic failures involving the electrical connector of certain neonatal and infant heated wire breathing circuits. In affected circuits, t

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – August 5, 2026 – Austin, Texas, Victory Medical Center Pharmacy is voluntarily recalling certain lots of Compounded Glutathione 200 mg/mL Multi-Dose Vials to the patient level. The product is being recalled because pharmacy testing identified elevated bacterial endotoxin leve

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 8/4/2026 – LAKE ZURICH, Ill.— Fresenius Kabi, an operating company of the Fresenius Group, is voluntarily recalling one lot of Morphine Sulfate Injection USP, Simplist® 2 mg/1 mL due to a label mix-up. The MicroVault labeled as Morphine 2 mg/1 mL, may contain a Prefilled Syri

BD is recalling certain BD Intraosseous Vascular Access System Needle Sets due to difficulty removing the obturator (stylet) following placement.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 31, 2026 – Raleigh, North Carolina, Liebel-Flarsheim Company, LLC, is recalling one lot of OPTIRAY Imaging Bulk Package (IBP) 350, 500mL in vial, (Ioversol Injection 74% 350 mg iodine/ml) for intra-arterial or intra-venous use to the user level (hospitals, imaging center

FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J.  (July 31, 2026) – BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) is voluntarily recalling specific lots of BD® Intraosseous Vascular Access System Needle Sets to the user level. These products are being recalled following reports that some users experienced difficulty removing the obturato

Particulates have the potential to be introduced into blood circulation and become lodged within blood vessels.

Medline is correcting affected convenience kits by removing recalled Lidocaine Hydrochloride and Bupivacaine Hydrochloride in Dextrose Injection components from affected convenience kits. 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 31, 2026 – Shirley, NY, American Regent, Inc. Animal Health is conducting a nationwide recall of two lots (25011 and 3369) of Adequan® Canine Injection (for dogs), 100 mg/mL 5mL multi-dose vials and two lots (24416 and 25265P) of Adequan® i.m. Injection (for horses), 500

Failure of an electrical component in certain Astral ventilators may cause an interruption or failure in therapy which may result in serious injury or death.

Argon Medical is correcting affected convenience kits by removing included Spectra Medical Devices Lidocaine Ampules. 

July 24, 2026 – Shirley, NY, American Regent, Inc. is conducting a nationwide voluntary recall of a single lot of Papaverine Hydrochloride Injection, USP, 60 mg/2 mL single dose vial to the consumer level. The product is being recalled due to the presence of particulate matter identified as glass an

July 24, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling Lot LD175708, Exp 14-Feb 2027 of Cefazolin in Dextrose Injection due to a report of particulate matter found in the solution identified as cardboard.Risk Statement: The use of the defective product has a

July 24, 2026 – DEERFIELD, Ill., Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX) is voluntarily recalling Lot LD175708, Exp 14-Feb 2027 of Cefazolin in Dextrose Injection due to a report of particulate matter found in the solution identified as cardboard.
Risk Statement: The use of the defective product has a

ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection Systems may have arterial sheath tip separation or partial tip separation during use

July 24, 2026 - Taoyuan City, Taiwan - Sunny Pharmtech, Inc is voluntarily recalling three lots of Cyclophosphamide for Injection, USP, 1g/vial and 2g/vial, to the User Level due to the presence of particulate matter identified as steel. To date, no adverse events or injuries associated with this pa

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – July 18th, 2026 – Panoli, Gujarat, Unique Pharmaceutical Laboratories (A Div. of J. B. Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd.) is voluntarily recalling four lots of Cetirizine Hydrochloride Tablets USP 5 mg to the consumer level due to cross contamination with Ranitidine.

Baxter administration sets may have air bubbles in the drip chamber and tubing, which may result in air being delivered through the IV line to the patient.

Statistical process control (SPC) is a critically important approach for measurement and analysis in quality improvement. As initially developed by Shewhart,1 applied by Deming2 and later modernised and made more accessible by many others,3–9 SPC provides a statistically powerful yet visually elegant and inclusive approach to assessing performance variation to inform intelligent action. It has a substantial range of applications, from simple practical uses by frontline improvement teams to much more sophisticated applications,10 11 and can complement inferential analytical methods in mixed-methods approaches that can be used to inform improvement in health services research.12 A highly useful aspect of SPC is its ability to detect special cause signals—non-random variations that occur in a process compared with a reference measure of central tendency (a mean or...

The critical importance of doctors in providing high-quality healthcare is undisputed, but what happens when something goes wrong? When mistakes or substandard patient experiences occur, it is right that care should be scrutinised. However, even though the issue may be at the healthcare organisation or wider systems level, many doctors report the negative impact of complaints on individual clinicians, leading to defensive practice and detrimental effects on their mental health and well-being.1 This reflects a broader tendency within healthcare to focus on responding to harm once it has occurred rather than investing in upstream measures that prevent harm in the first place. As famously attributed to Desmond Tutu, ‘there comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in’.

Within this context, Brennan et al’s paper and accompanying guide in...