Patient safety
Improvement project
22 results found
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Date published: 30 January 2012This project focuses on developing a reliable system that enables safe electronic prescribing.
Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
Date published: 30 January 2012This project focuses on creating a safe and reliable system for providing medication for patients with Parkinson’s disease.
NHS Dumfries & Galloway
Date published: 30 January 2012This project focuses on prescribing practices and reducing prescribing errors in all acute medical admissions to the hospital.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Date published: 30 January 2012This project focuses on achieving better prescribing processes for patients admitted for medical reasons.
Southmead Hospital, North Bristol NHS Trust
Date published: 30 January 2012This project focuses on handover and communication processes for patients with end stage renal failure.
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Date published: 30 January 2012This project focuses on transfer of care processes for patients who are elderly and frail, admitted to hospital via the unscheduled care pathway.
Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Date published: 30 January 2012This project focuses on the handover process (across primary, secondary and tertiary care) for children with complex illnesses.
Working with SHAs - NHS North East
Date published: 02 February 2011This programme has been designed to help SHAs develop their patient safety infrastructure, test different programmes and increase understanding of measures that can be used to spread safety improvement across the SHA region.
Working with SHAs - NHS North West
Date published: 02 February 2011This programme has been designed to help SHAs develop their patient safety infrastructure, test different programmes and increase understanding of measures that can be used to spread safety improvement across the SHA region.
Working with SHAs - NHS South West
Date published: 02 February 2011This programme has been designed to help SHAs develop their patient safety infrastructure, test different programmes and increase understanding of measures that can be used to spread safety improvement across the SHA region.
Working with SHAs - NHS South Central
Date published: 02 February 2011This programme has been designed to help SHAs develop their patient safety infrastructure, test different programmes and increase understanding of measures that can be used to spread safety improvement across the SHA region.
Provide the right information, at the right time for the right patient, every time
Date published: 26 January 2011A team at NHS Lothian have been working on a project to create safe and reliable systems for managing the flow of information about patients in their care.
Design and implement a reliable handover system
Date published: 26 January 2011The Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust team wanted to improve the handover systems within neurology and A&E departments to ensure that correct and timely information was being shared about patients.
Safer handovers across the health economy
Date published: 26 January 2011A joint team from NHS Bolton and Royal Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust are working on a project to improve the handover of information about patients as they move through different stages of care and treatment.
Creating safe and resilient prescribing systems
Date published: 26 January 2011A team at Hereford Hospitals NHS Trust have been working on a project to reduce medication errors by making prescribing systems safer and more reliable for emergency medical patients.
The FallSafe project learning
Date published: 01 October 2010This project seeks to reduce levels of inpatient falls, by helping hospital wards to establish evidence-based assessments and interventions, and monitoring their impact.
Devon Partnership NHS Trust
Date published: 30 September 2010A project at Devon Partnership NHS Trust to introduce a series of initiatives aimed at making the safety of service users a priority and reducing errors and safety incidents. Part of our Developing safety work in mental health programme.
NHS Tayside
Date published: 30 September 2010A project by NHS Tayside to introduce a series of changes to increase the profile of patient safety and raise awareness among staff. The project also aimed to improve safety levels, in particular to reduce adverse events related to falls and the numb...
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Date published: 30 September 2010A project at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to develop a more positive and open approach to safety; improve communication with patients on discharge from the ward; and improve medicine management, specifically to stop unexplained miss...
Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust
Date published: 30 September 2010A project at Hampshire Partnership NHS Trust to improve staff perception of patient safety, help service users to feel safe on the ward and improve medication safety.
North Bristol NHS Trust: Improving early warning scores in acute surgical wards
Date published: 29 September 2010This Shine project involves the introduction of training in the use of early warning scores and escalation of care for the deteriorating patient.
Boards and safety development
Date published: 19 September 2010To identify the most effective ways to improve the safety and quality of the services an organisation provides to patients, boards need good information and they need to be able to interact with that information, with each other and with the organisa...
