Patient safety
Programme
13 results found
Shine 2012
Date published: 18 April 2012Our annual Shine programme focuses on aspects of healthcare quality that reflect the key issues the UK health service faces. This year the challenge is to find new approaches to delivering healthcare that aim to achieve one of the following: supporti...
Making care safer: Care Home use of Medicines Study (CHUMS)
Date published: 15 March 2011In October 2009, the Care Home use of Medicines Study (CHUMS), funded by the Department of Health, found unacceptable levels of error in the medications received by care home residents. In response to the report, the Royal College of Physicians, the ...
Improvement Science Fellowships
Date published: 17 November 2010This programme is a new and innovative kind of fellowship, which will provide four fellows with a unique mix of research funding, leadership development, and access to an international network of improvement science experts.
Safer Patients Network
Date published: 04 October 2010Our Safer Patients Network is a vibrant, self-sustaining, innovative group of organisations. They test, develop and explore ways of building improvement skills and making healthcare safer for patients.
Safer Patients Initiative
Date published: 04 October 2010Our Safer Patients Initiative (SPI) ran from 2004–2008. It was set up to find practical ways of improving hospital safety and to demonstrate what can be achieved through an organisation-wide approach to patient safety.
Improving the safety of maternity services
Date published: 04 October 2010The aim of this programme of work is to improve the safety and reliability of obstetrics and midwifery through a teamwork solution, by developing exceptional clinical leadership skills, team practices and unit-level improvement capability in four UK ...
Safer Clinical Systems
Date published: 02 October 2010Our Safer Clinical Systems programme takes a fresh and proactive approach to safety improvement. Rather than learning from harm and failure once it has occurred, the programme helps healthcare teams proactively identify potential safety breaches, ena...
Developing Safety Work in Mental Health
Date published: 30 September 2010Our 'Improving patient safety in mental health' programme supported four organisations to improve mental health services and reduce harm for service users.
Flow, Cost, Quality
Date published: 23 September 2010This programme focuses on the relationship between patient flow, costs and outcomes in two NHS hospital trusts. It is examining patient flow through the emergency care pathway and developing ways in which capacity can be better matched with demand, t...
Clinical Human Factors Group
Date published: 20 September 2010The Clinical Human Factors Group was set up by Martin Bromiley with support from the Health Foundation in 2007. The group is a broad coalition of healthcare professionals, managers and users of services who have partnered with experts in human f...
Innovation to improve outpatient clinic efficiency
Date published: 20 September 2010We are funding a programme to investigate how clinics can be better matched to demand, how waste can be reduced, efficiencies achieved and patient safety improved.
Developing Boards and Improving Governance for Safety and Quality
Date published: 18 September 2010Our programme of work on developing boards involves a series of projects aimed at exploring the role of boards in improving healthcare; identifying actions boards can take to increase the profile of patient safety; and working with boards to improve ...
Developing Patient Safety in Primary Care
Date published: 16 September 2010This programme is working in parallel with the Scottish Quality & Safety Improvement in Primary Care Closing the Gap project and will build expertise, experience and knowledge about patient safety within general practices and boards in NHS Tay...
