it ain’t what you do (but the way that you do it): will safety ii transform the way we do patient safety; comment on “false dawns and new horizons in patient safety research and practice”

Mannion and braithwaite outline a new paradigm for studying and improving patient safety – safety ii. in this response, i argue that safety i should not be dismissed simply because the safety management strategies that are developed and enacted in the name of safety i are not always true to the original philosophy of ‘systems thinking.’