James Titcombe

Blaming individuals for care failures is sometimes the right response The Great Ormond Street scandal exposes a growing imbalance in NHS patient safety policy. In moving away from blame, the system has also lost sight of individual competence, leadership responsibility, and the non-negotiables needed to prevent serious harm

We have rightly moved away from a culture of individual blame in patient safety. But in doing so, have we created a dangerous blind spot around individual responsibility and accountability?

I’m aware this may be a controversial piece!

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Response to report that focuses on global collaboration to improve patient safety — HSSIB <p data-block-key="rsbov">The Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and Patient Safety Watch have published their annual <a class="" href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/Stories...

Yesterday the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and @patientsafetywatch.bsky.social published their Global State of Patient Safety Report 2025

Read our response from our Interim Chief Executive, @rosiebe.bsky.social

#PatientSafety #NHS #GlobalHealth

Lovely to see you yesterday Lizzi - thanks so much for all your interest and work to push for safer healthcare nationally and locally too.

Stop promoting natural birth ideology, midwife courses told Despite a litany of scandals, universities are still pushing ‘normal birth’ over medical interventions. Now our investigation has prompted the regulator to act

🚨 INVESTIGATION: Britain's maternity crisis has deeper roots, extending into the universities trusted to train the next generation of midwives. A majority are still promoting a normal birth ideology while women are more complex than ever:

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The cycle of constant, repeated (affected?) shock and horror

“We need to rethink the ‘scandal’ narrative in the NHS”

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Britain's next maternity scandal A four-month investigation with Channel 4 News reveals harrowing failings at one of Britain's most prestigious hospitals

“A midwife who worked at OUH until 2023…told me that even after the trust had changed its policy on MRCS in March 2021, a culture of promoting “natural” births remained…”

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Finally back home after 35 hours of travel - and the weather here is just like it was in Vietnam 🤣 🌧️ 🇻🇳

Day 1 – Manchester to Ho Chi Minh City I set off from Cumbria at midday, catching a train to Manchester Airport and arriving just after 2pm. The first leg was a quick hop to Amsterdam with easyJet – only an hour and a half. After …

Keeping a little travel blog for the next 16 days - as a travel from the South to the North of Vietnam to remember Joshua and raise funds for Baby Lifeline. 🛵🇻🇳

#RememberingJoshua

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Just setting off for Ho Chi Minh City to start my solo 16 day motorbike ride from the south to the north of Vietmam to raise funds for @babylifeline & remember Joshua on his 17th birthday.

Thanks to everyone who has supported me 🙏🏻 🛵🇻🇳

#VietnamRideForBabyLifeline

Patient Safety Watch: Some progress but blame culture still persists HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt

Our latest #PatientSafety newsletter from @jeremyhuntmp.bsky.social is now available via @HSJnews here:-

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Donate to Vietnam Solo Ride for Baby Lifeline, organized by James Titcombe From 16th October to 2nd November, I’m riding a motorbike solo from Ho Chi Minh Cit… James Titcombe needs your support for Vietnam Solo Ride for Baby Lifeline

Just over a week to go before I embark on a 2000km ride from the south to the north of Vietnam in memory of Joshua & to raise funds for @babylifeline. Hugely grateful for the support so far 🙏🏻🇻🇳🛵

#VietnamRideForBabyLifeline #RememberingJoshua

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Up early for a day of delivering PSIRF engagement training in Lancaster with Morecambe Bay teams…

A evening ride out to #Coniston - haven’t seen it this full for a while!

Top marks form the girls for today’s effort :-) #sundayroast

Operation Anzu has seen hundreds of families sent letters by the NHS asking them to contact Staffordshire police, after a trawl of thousands of records for patients seen by this doctor:

This is so fascinating Helen, can’t wait to see the full programme when it comes out :-)

Agree, this is really significant and hugely welcome step forward.

One of the best things in the Hillsborough Law Bill is not the duty of candour on public officials, as welcome as that is, but news that bereaved families will have publicly funded legal representation at inquests. Finally an equality of arms that's been lacking for so long

A lovely time at the Lantern Festival in Ulverston with my daughter this evening - and the rain didn’t spoil the fireworks at all 😊

A wet and grey day in Cumbria - daughter is back from Uni for the weekend so cooking a roast and lighting a fire :-)

YouTube video by The Connection Podcast by RLDatix World Patient Safety Day: James Titcombe OBE on Safer Maternity Care from the Start

Enjoyed speaking with Liz and Darren from RLDatix at the HSJ Patient Safety Congress this week about maternity safety and the newly announced Amos investigation ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Maternity care: 14 NHS trusts to be investigated over 'failures' Families impacted have criticised the review, calling it

Good to see East Kent (and Yeovil!) among others on this list of Trusts to be reviewed by Baroness Amos & her team. I'll be discussing maternity care with @dockendenltd.bsky.social, @shaunlintern.bsky.social & @jamestitcombe.bsky.social at the @hsj.co.uk Congress tmw. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A fun day with my daughter yesterday :-)

Dad embarks on 2000km fundraiser in memory of son who died after nine days James Titcombe lost his son Joshua in 2008 due to failures in maternity care and will be using the anniversary to support Baby Lifeline.

Around Joshua’s birthday is always a difficult time of year for me - so this year I’m doing something a bit different to raise money for @babylifeline.bsky.social

Hugely grateful for the support & kindness already shown 🙏

#RememberingJoshua

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Donate to Vietnam Solo Ride for Baby Lifeline, organized by James Titcombe From 16th October to 2nd November, I’m riding a motorbike solo from Ho Chi Minh Cit… James Titcombe needs your support for Vietnam Solo Ride for Baby Lifeline

This October, I’m riding solo by motorbike from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi - nearly 2,000km - in memory of Joshua & to raise funds for the brilliant charity @babylifeline who do amazing work to support safer maternity care.

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Patient Safety Watch: Details of maternity investigation revealed and ‘corridor care’ scrutinised HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe

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Starmer’s NHS reforms thrown into chaos by ‘£1bn layoff bill’ Patients could be put at risk as the one-off cost of redundancies, estimated at between £600 million and £1 billion, puts staff and services in limbo

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...

#kefalonia day 6

#Asos #Kefalonia