Patient Safety Incidents Response Framework (PSIRF)

The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) sets out the NHS’s approach to developing and maintaining effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety.For NHS guidance on the...

Making Human Factors and Ergonomics work in health and social care Chapter 2

A practical introduction to healthcare ergonomics based on the CIEHF professional competencies intended for those responsiblefor implementing human factors and ergonomics programmes and interventions to improve patient safety, system performance and wellbeing of...

Making Human Factors and Ergonomics work in health and social care Chapter 1

A practical introduction to healthcare ergonomics based on the CIEHF professional competencies intended for those responsible for implementing human factors and ergonomics programmes and interventions to improve patient safety, system performance and wellbeing of...

Just Culture and Incident Investigation 22nd November 2022 Virtual Seminar 1400 - 1730 GMT

Our virtual seminar looked at Just Culture and Incident Investigation and featured two of the authors, Jan Davies and Carmella Steinke, of the new book ‘Fatal Solution’ , a book which describes “how a healthcare system used tragedy to transform...

Mind the Implementation Gap

This report was published on the 7 April 2022 as part of the Safety for All campaign.  This Campaign is focused on driving awareness of the interrelationship between healthcare worker safety and patient safety, highlighting how poor healthcare worker safety standards...