Patient Safety Collaboratives

England’s 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives play an essential role in identifying and spreading safer care initiatives from within the NHS and industry, ensuring these are shared and implemented throughout the system. They are based in the 15 Academic Health Science...

Circle of Care a model for Compassionate Human Factors in Healthcare

Circle of Care is a model for Compassionate Human Factors in Healthcare, created by the Simulation and Interactive Learning Centre (SaIL) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) in collaboration with Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine programme. It helps...

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Patient Safety Annual Report

Please see Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Patient Safety Annual Report 2015-2016. Report...

Continuous Improvement of Patient Safety – The Health Foundation

The pursuit of safety is not for the timid. This Health Foundation report eloquently surveys the landscape of obstacles. But there are at least two inescapable facts that make improving safety especially difficult and frustrating. Read & Download...

Implementing Culture Change Within the NHS

The practical steps required to implement culture change in the NHS is the subject of a new report launched today, Thursday 6th November 2014, by the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Division of Occupational Psychology (DOP). The report, ‘NHS Culture Change:...

Introduction to Patient Safety

Professor Charles Vincent provides an summary of his recently published second edition on Patient Safety. This 61-page free pdf file, which may be used for non-commercial purposes, is essential reading for anyone starting to understand the scale and complexity of...