Clinical Human Factors Group
The Clinical Human Factors Group aims to enhance patient safety by combining human factors with an approach to change informed by improvement science.
Closing the Gap in Patient Safety
Closing the Gap in Patient Safety was a £4m programme that supported nine project teams to implement and evaluate tested, evidence-based patient safety interventions at scale in health and social c...
Safety measurement and monitoring programme
The aim of the Safety Measurement and Monitoring programme is to test and develop Professor Charles Vincent and colleagues' measurement and monitoring framework, translating their research into an ...
Improving the Primary Care Response to Domestic Violence
This work aimed to ensure that women experiencing the health impacts of current or past domestic violence have direct access to a specialist domestic violence advocate-educator through their health...
Safer Clinical Systems
Developed 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.
Developing patient safety in primary care
Programme worked to build expertise, experience and knowledge about patient safety in general practices and boards in NHS Tayside and NHS Quality Improvement Scotland Ran between April 2010 an...
Safer Patients Initiative
The Safer Patients Initiative was the first major improvement programme to start addressing the issue of patient safety in the UK. It was complex and large-scale in its approach to improvement, rec...
Working with strategic health authorities
Programme created partnerships with four strategic health authorities to improve patient safety between 2009-2012. Four SHAs were: NHS South Central, NHS South West, NHS North West, NHS North ...
Developing a safe procedure checklist for the cardiac catheterisation laboratory
Led by Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, this project focused on cardiac catheterisation laboratory (CCL) proceduresand aimed to improve safety, efficiency and teamwork. The team d...
