Health and care strategies across the UK, including the Five Year Forward View, are now focused on putting patients at the centre. Drawing on the results of two research projects IMPRESS and PRo...
4:00pm, 01 Dec 2016Developed as a five year phased programme, Safe Clinical Systems helps health care teams proactively identify potential safety breaches, enabling them to build better, safer health care systems.
The approach to risk management used by the NHS leaves many hazards to patient safety undetected, according to a new report launched today (6 February 2015) by independent health care charity the H...
We’ve selected a range of case studies which illustrate some of the different approaches teams ar...
When East Kent Hospitals embarked on a project to reduce hospital readmissions for older people, they thought it would be all about improving the quality of handover information. But after spending...
There is a growing interest in proactive approaches to safety management – putting systems in place to ensure safety, rather than responding when things go wrong. We asked Simon Dodds, a consultant...
Our recent report, Using safety cases in industry and healthcare, argues for a more proactive approach to safety management. It looks at the use of ‘safety cases’ in six safety-critical industries ...
Professor Katherine Fenton talks about managing safety proactively and how the Health Foundation's measuring and monitoring of safety framework can be used to achieve this.
Involving patients in their own safety - webinar from The Health Foundation on Vimeo. Health and care strategies across the UK, including the Five Year Forward View, are now focused on putting...
Professor Erik Hollnagel explores the importance of proactive approaches to safety management. He...
