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Our National Patient Safety Team are supporting the NHS to achieve the strategy’s aims through a series of programmes and areas of work. All of this work relates to the strategy’s foundations of ‘patient safety culture’ and ‘patient safety systems’, and the three strategic aims ‘insight’, ‘involvement’ and ‘improvement ...
- NHS Patient Safety Strategy
The National Patient Safety Team are supporting the NHS to...
- Patient Safety Systems
Patient safety systems are a fundamental foundation of the...
- National Patient Safety Alerts
Our patient safety team was the first national body...
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) sets...
- Improvement
The programmes are delivered by the National Patient Safety...
- Serious Incident Framework
Update on development of the Patient Safety Incident...
- Insight
Patient safety Our patient safety ‘insight’ work aims to...
- Patient Safety Specialists
Patient Safety Specialists are individuals in healthcare...
- NHS Patient Safety Strategy
Sep 18, 2023 · 1. Commitment to involving patient safety partners in patient safety. NHS England formalised its relationship with the patient representatives working with the patient safety team, by making them national patient safety partners. 2. Creating a framework to develop and support patient safety partners’ involvement.
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- The NHS Patient Safety Strategy
- Key Documents and Updates
- Progress So Far
- Key Components of The Strategy
- Developing The Strategy
- Contact Us
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy sets out how the NHS will support staff and providers to share safety insight and empower people – patients and staff – with the skills, confidence and mechanisms to improve safety. Getting this right could save almost 1,000 extra lives and £100 million in care costs each year. The strategy is evolving over time to e...
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy – the original strategy document published in July 2019 (an easy read versionis also available)Emerging evidence shows that the NHS Patient Safety Strategy is making progress towards the impact we anticipated in 2019: saving an additional 1,000 lives and £100 million per year. Latest figures from June 2023 indicate we are halfway to achieving that aim. Our NHS Patient Safety Strategy: Progress so far webpagedetails some highlights of where t...
Aidan Fowler, National Director of Patient Safety, introduces the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. Hugh McCaughey – A key principle of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy is continuous improvement. Hugh McCaughey, National Director of Improvement, discusses the relationship between Quality Improvement and patient safety. Dr Suzette Woodward, director of th...
Between December 2018 and February 2019 we held a consultation on our original set of ideas for a national patient safety strategy for the NHS. We received 527 contributions from organisations and individuals (staff, patients and carers), and attended stakeholder meetings and engagement events. We also held workshops with staff, patients and senior...
If you would like further information about the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, or have any questions, please email patientsafety.enquiries@nhs.net.
The programme gives advice on how to safely introduce new procedures into practice. Led by a senior responsible officer for patient safety, our Patient Safety Oversight Group (PSOG) provides oversight of and, where required, coordination to patient safety related matters within NICE. It includes representation from our key guidance producing ...
Dec 4, 2023 · NHS England has produced detailed resources for patient safety leaders and policy makers about the purpose of PSIRF and what organisations are expected to do to deliver this part of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. However, discussions with frontline clinicians, patient safety managers, educators and Patient Safety Partners have highlighted the need for a simple guide that helps communicate ...
Patient safety is very important to us. Occasionally when people receive care and treatment from us things go wrong, or an unexpected event occurs. These are known as patient safety incidents. A patient safety incident is any unintended or unexpected incident which could have, or did, lead to harm for one or more patient’s receiving healthcare.
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If you’re a healthcare professional (HCP) and the complaint is not being made on behalf of the patient or their family, or you are reporting an incident, you will need to log this via your incident reporting system. For any assistance relating to HCP incident reporting, please contact the Patient Safety Team via email Patient. Safety.
