Inspectors of National Health Service (NHS) Quality Improvement Scotland, which monitors Scottish health services, found that many health boards are not meeting the standards set in place for blood transfusions, reports The Herald.

Although many NHS boards had adequate amounts of staff members specifically trained on performing blood transfusions, many hospitals did not have a system in place to ensure that only trained individuals were participating in the transfusion process, according to the Herald.

Inspectors advised that hospitals ensure only trained individuals perform transfusions, as well as implementing tighter measures to identify the patient and blood correctly before the transfusion. Twelve UK patients received the wrong type of blood last year, according to the Herald.

Three public hospitals will receive extra resources from China's hospital authority to help them receive external accreditation, reports the South China Morning Post.

The accreditation body has yet to be determined. Currently, public hospitals are only subject to self-assessment. A special team will be provided to help the hospitals acquire accreditation, reports the Post.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of Manitoba in Canada has discovered that physicians must often deal with aggressive patients skeptical of their physicians, reports the Globe and Mail.

Patients who are aggressive or refuse a physician's diagnosis may hinder their own patient safety, according to the study.

Maureen Connors Potter, HCPro’s Vice President for International Services, and former Executive Director for International Accreditation at the Joint Commission International (JCI), will be speaking at the following upcoming international conferences: