Protect yourself, protect the NHS
While everyone in healthcare across the UK is working tirelessly during this crisis there are others that want to take advantage of the pandemic via cyberspace, the online environment in which all of us now live and work.Criminals will be targeting both you and the...
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...
HSIB Report Wrong site surgery – Wrong patient
HSIB reviewed the NHS national reporting systems to understand how often the wrong patient receives the wrong procedure. They launched this national investigation because the evidence found suggests that incorrect identification of patients is a contributory factor to...