The NHS Patient Safety Strategy
WEBThe 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.
Safety culture: learning from best practice - NHS England
WEBNov 15, 2022 · Use staff measures, such as staff retention and feedback. Use patient-assessed measures such as compassionate care and pain control as key revealing metrics. Look at ‘soft intelligence’ or the ‘feel’ of a clinical space eg The Fifteen Steps Challenge (2017), as well as surveys such as GMC, …
Patient safety - NHS England
WEBPatient safety is the avoidance of unintended or unexpected harm to people during the provision of health care. We support providers to minimise patient safety incidents and drive improvements in safety and quality. Patients should be treated in a safe environment and protected from avoidable harm.
Workplace health and safety standards | NHS Employers
WEBAug 29, 2023 · These NHS workplace health and safety standards, updated for 2023, provide the basis of effective health and safety management to support your staff.
WEBsafety aspects of the NHS Litigations Authority (NHSLA) standards, Care Quality Commission (CQC) requirements and the Improving Working Lives initiative. How can the standards be used?
A safe, secure working environment - mhcswtoolkit.hee.nhs.uk
WEBJan 2, 2021 · The standard delivers a risk-based framework that supports a safe and secure working environment for NHS staff, safeguarding them against abuse, aggression and violence. These guidelines from NICE cover the short-term management of violence and aggression in adults (aged 18 and over), young people (aged 13 …
WEBeffective health and safety management; set out the issues, which need to be addressed; provide links to the relevant guidance; and can be used for developing improvement programmes, self-audit, or self-assessment.
A framework for measuring and monitoring safety
WEBThis guide introduces the framework and explains how it can help those working in the NHS answer the question ‘How safe is our care?’ and bring about constructive change. This guide aims to support NHS organisations to apply a framework for measuring and monitoring safety.
WEBSeven steps to patient safety describes the steps that NHS organisations need to take to improve safety. These steps are founded on a thorough review of literature from across the world (on patient safety,clinical governance, change management and risk management) and on experience of what works in patient safety. The
WEBTo better shape safety education in the NHS, the following measures will be introduced: robust, achievable and aspirational plan patient safety training in the NHS. ncies in the national syllabusensure access to patient safety training for every member of the NHS, from ‘ward to board. a.