Purpose – Inquiries into healthcare organisations have highlighted organisational or system failure, attributed to poor responses to early warning signs. One response, and challenge, is for professionals and academics to build capacity for quality and safety research to provide evidence for...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the development of patient safety as a field within which patients are peripheral stakeholders. Design/methodology/approach – The authors examined the patient safety movement from the perspective of a field in which agents struggle for control over...