Patient Safety Incidence 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 more information...

How to specify healthcare process improvements collaboratively using rapid, remote consensus-building A five-step framework

This Institute have written a new paper featuring a five-step framework to help develop process improvements – the changes needed to make a healthcare process better. Grounded in a participatory ethos, principles of crowd-sourcing, and consensus-building methods, the...

SEIPS 101 and 7 simple SEIPS tools

In the past 15 years, SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety)1–3 and related conceptual models4 5 were developed to study and improve healthcare.  These theoretical models depict how work systems affect health-related outcomes, such as patient...

Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management Open Access Textbook

Preface”Despite the extensive attention and public commitments towards patient safety over the last two decades, levels of avoidable harm in healthcare around the world remain unacceptably high. By creating a book with broad scope and clear descriptions of the...

BMJ Article on Human Factors and Design by Jane Feinmann

NHS Supply Chain has welcomed the CHFG guide to introduce Human Factors into procurement.  Jane Feinmann writes for the BMJ. There are increasing signs that the pandemic is forcing change—with the NHS  taking human factors and ergonomics seriously.The Clinical Human...

CIEHF Bedside guide routine tracheostomy care

This bedside guide is intended for the use of all healthcare staff who are looking after adult patients with tracheostomies. The tasks described should NOT be attempted by those who have not received training or been deemed as competent in tracheostomy care and...