Patient safety
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Reducing prescribing errors
Date published: 22 March 2012Medication errors are one of the most common causes of patient harm and prescribing accounts for a large proportion of medication errors. This evidence scan examines strategies to reduce prescribing errors.
Levels of harm in primary care
Date published: 16 November 2011A great deal of research is available about patient harm in hospital, but less is known about errors in primary care. This evidence scan investigates the evidence that is available.
Does improving safety culture affect patient outcomes?
Date published: 16 November 2011There is an increasing focus on ways to measure and improve safety culture in healthcare. This evidence scan examines whether improving safety culture has an impact on patient and staff outcomes.
Improving safety in primary care
Date published: 16 November 2011This evidence scan explores steps that have been taken to minimise errors and improve patient safety in primary care.
Global trigger tools
Date published: 08 July 2011Trigger tools help identify adverse effects and areas for improvement by auditing a small sample of patient notes regularly. This evidence scan signposts published evidence about the benefits and challenges with this approach.
Measuring safety culture
Date published: 08 July 2011This evidence scan provides a brief overview of some of the tools available to measure safety culture and climate in healthcare.
Levels of harm
Date published: 07 July 2011This evidence scan summarises readily available research about levels of patient harm in acute and primary care and the potential causes of such harm.
Making care safer
Date published: 04 July 2011This report collects together the testimony given by family and carers of people living in a care home, specifically around issues of medication safety.
Safer Patients Initiative phase 2
Date published: 25 January 2011Read our evaluation of the 2nd phase of the Safer Patients Initiative, a complex, large-scale intervention and the first major improvement programme addressing patient safety in the UK.
Safer Patients Initiative phase 1
Date published: 25 January 2011Read our evaluation of the Safer Patients Initiative, a complex, large-scale intervention and the first major improvement programme addressing patient safety in the UK.
Learning report: Safer Patients Initiative
Date published: 25 January 2011This learning report provides an overview of the Safer Patients Initiative (phases 1 and 2) and its evaluation, and highlights the impact of the programme, key lessons and further issues for exploration.
Snapshot: Safer clinical systems
Date published: 24 November 2010This snapshot looks at how the Health Foundation’s Safer Clinical Systems programme is testing and demonstrating improvements to healthcare systems to make care safer.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Date published: 02 November 2010In 2002, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Bostonfaced financial crisis, problems with quality and safety, poor staff morale and fractious relationships. Eight years later the organisation has salvaged its reputation and is now thriving. Th...
Snapshot: Patient safety
Date published: 06 September 2010This Snapshot looks at the fundamental priorities for clinicians, managers, boards and policy makers to improve patient safety.
Snapshot: safer maternity services
Date published: 06 September 2010In June 2009 The Health Foundation began supporting a two-year programme of work to improve the safety of maternity services. This Snapshot sets out some of the key learning points which have so far developed from that programme.
Evidence: How safe are clinical systems?
Date published: 06 September 2010While the knowledge that poor systems can cause harm is not new, this report provides groundbreaking evidence of the extent to which important clinical systems and processes fail, and the potential these failings have to harm patients.
Snapshot: safer mental health services
Date published: 06 September 2010This publication is a summary of the experiences and learning from this programme so far. It includes background information, the teams' programme of work and their learning so far.
Snapshot: transforming health services dynamics
Date published: 06 September 2010The NHS needs transformational change before it can offer truly personalised care; and it needs truly personalised care before it can transform the quality of its services. This 'snapshot' focuses on our work on transforming the dynamic between peopl...
Bridging the quality gap: heart failure
Date published: 06 September 2010This report provides a comprehensive review of existing heart failure care by assessing quality in six domains: effectiveness, access and timeliness, capacity, safety, patient centredness and equity. It also captures the international evidence on wha...
Safety and risk management in hospitals
Date published: 06 September 2010This systematic review synthesises the evidence on the effectiveness of detection, mitigation and actions to reduce risks in hospitals and identifies and describes components of interventions responsible for effectiveness.
Patient safety update
Date published: 06 September 2010This update explains the Health Foundation's continuing work around patient safety, what we've learnt so far and our key priorities for the future.
Making our hospitals safer
Date published: 06 September 2010Inspiring stories from participants on the Safer Patients Initiative show how it helped their hospitals to prioritise patient safety.
Safe from harm
Date published: 06 September 2010This briefing shows how The Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Initiative is reducing medical incidents in 24 hospitals and making healthcare safer for patients.
Better team working for a safer hospital
Date published: 06 September 2010One in ten patients admitted to hospitals in developed countries suffer harm as a result of medical errors. This briefing looks at how The Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Initiative has improved patient safety using the concept of shared lea...
Patient-focused interventions
Date published: 06 September 2010Patient-focused interventions are those that recognise the role of patients as active participants in the process of securing appropriate, effective, safe and responsive healthcare. This report aims to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of ...
It's not just MRSA: Making healthcare safer for patients
Date published: 06 September 2010With around one in ten hospital patients experienceing an incident which puts their safety at risk, this briefing highlights the fundamental issue of patient safety in healthcare and outlines our work with the first four hospitals involved in the Saf...
