While a number of books address the concept of therapeutic communication, i.e. communication between health professionals and their patients, few extend this focus to include communication between health professionals, fewer still address the critical relationship between communication and patient safety.

Critical Conversations in Patient Safety bridges that gap.

• Critical Conversations for Patient Safety is written in an inter-professional way with experts representing different health professions writing collaboratively to convey different perspectives and delivers a new level of understanding.
• The views and experiences of both health professionals and patients is integrated throughout the text to achieve a clinically relevant and person-centred approach.
• Real world clinical exemplars and patient stories will engage students and increase the meaningfulness and authenticity of the text.
• The chapters focus on key areas and issues by providing practical solutions to real world problems and prepare health professional students for the reality of practice by empowering them to work collaboratively to improve patient outcomes.