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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
Enduring standards and general principles from previously...
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) sets...
- Improvement
The National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes...
- Serious Incident Framework
Update on development of the Patient Safety Incident...
- Insight
Our patient safety ‘insight’ work aims to improve...
- Patient Safety Specialists
Patient Safety Specialists are individuals in healthcare...
- NHS Patient Safety Strategy
- Common Sources of Patient Harm
- Factors Leading to Patient Harm
- System Approach to Patient Safety
- Who Response
Medication errors. Medication-related harm affects 1 out of every 30 patients in health care, with more than a quarter of this harm regarded as severe or life threatening. Half of the avoidable harm in health care is related to medications (3). Surgical errors. Over 300 million surgical procedures are performed each year worldwide (6). Despite awar...
Patient harm in health care due to safety breaks is pervasive, problematic and can occur in all settings and at all levels of health care provision. There are multiple and interrelated factors that can lead to patient harm, and more than one factor is usually involved in any single patient safety incident: 1. system and organizational factors: the ...
Most of the mistakes that lead to harm do not occur as a result of the practices of one or a group of health and care workers but are rather due to system or process failures that lead these health and care workers to make mistakes. Understanding the underlying causes of errors in medical care thus requires shifting from the traditional blaming app...
Global action on patient safety
Recognizing patient safety as a global health priority, and as an essential component of strengthening health systems for moving towards universal health coverage, the Seventy-second World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA72.6on “Global action on patient safety” in May 2019. The resolution requested the Director-General to emphasize patient safety as a key strategic priority in WHO’s work across the universal health coverage agenda, endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day...
Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030
The Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030provides a framework for action for key stakeholders to join efforts and implement patient safety initiatives in a comprehensive manner. The goal is “to achieve the maximum possible reduction in avoidable harm due to unsafe health care globally”, envisioning “a world in which no one is harmed in health care, and every patient receives safe and respectful care, every time, everywhere”.
World Patient Safety Day
Since 2019, World Patient Safety Dayhas been celebrated across the world annually on 17 September, calling for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety. The global campaign, with its dedicated annual theme, is aimed at enhancing public awareness and global understanding of patient safety and mobilizing action by stakeholders to eliminate avoidable harm in health care and thereby improve patient safety.
Sep 26, 2024 · A project group was established to include primary care in the ICS approach to delivering the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, initially working with general practice. The local strategy evolves as general practice makes progress and priorities emerge. Recent updates can be requested from patientsafety@nhsdorset.nhs.uk.
Patient safety is the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care, including the reduction of risk of unnecessary harm associated with health care to an acceptable minimum. An acceptable minimum refers to the collective notions of given current knowledge, resources available and the context in which care is ...
Jul 23, 2024 · All healthcare organisations providing and overseeing NHS-funded care must work collaboratively, with a common understanding of the aims of this framework, to provide an effective governance structure around the NHS response to patient safety incidents. The PSIRF expects ICBs to facilitate collaboration at both place and local system level.
Keeping patients safe: a practical guide. Patient safety is the prevention of avoidable errors and the harm they cause to patients; it is the foundation of good patient care. Achieving safety in patient care is part of achieving quality patient care. When we think about patient safety, we normally think about the physical safety of the patient ...
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WHO’s work on patient safety began with the launch of the World Alliance for Patient Safety, in 2004, and has evolved over time. The WHO Patient Safety and Risk Management unit has been created to coordinate, disseminate and accelerate improvements in patient safety and managing risks in health care to prevent patient harm worldwide.
