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England is to set up a new agency to improve safety for NHS patients, with a mandatory system for reporting failures, mistakes, and "near misses." The National Patient Safety Agency will act as an independent body within the NHS, with the aim of collecting and analysing information on adverse events from local NHS organisations, NHS staff, patients, and carers. The agency will then feed back any lessons learned into practice, organisations, and delivery. Where risks are identified, the new body will develop solutions designed to prevent harm, set out national goals for risk reduction, and establish mechanisms to track progress towards achieving

Nearly 700 000 people signed up in the first 24 hours of the launch of an app to help track the spread of coronavirus across the UK in real time and collect information on the range of self-reported symptoms and the characteristics of those most at risk.

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