It is now almost universally accepted that approximately 10% of hospital admissions suffer harm due to human error. It is also accepted that between 3-10% of these suffer harm leading to or contributing to their death. In a small area such as Northern Ireland, where Niall is from, this amounts to around 40 avoidable deaths per week and around 400 patients inadvertently harmed. Extrapolate this across the European Union and you have approximately half a million avoidable deaths per year! As Captain Downey puts it, “This is equivalent to two Airbus A380 Super-Jumbos crashing every day around the EU - a mind-blowing statistic!”