“Patient safety involves everyone in all aspects of healthcare: patients, service users, families, carers, staff and students. The NHS Patient Safety Strategy emphasises the important role of patients, service users, their families and carers, and other lay people in providing safer care”

Primary care patient safety strategy, NHS England, October 2024

This conference focuses on patient involvement and partnership for patient safety including implementing the New National Framework for involving patients in patient safety, and the role of the Patient Safety Partner (PSP) in your organisation or service. The conference will also cover engagement of patients and families in their own safety, and patient involvement under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework:

“The Framework for involving patients in patient safety provides guidance, role descriptions and tools to enable providers to co-produce patient safety improvements with their patients, service users, carers and families. Diverse patient involvement ensures that the voice of all communities is heard, especially those experiencing health inequalities.”

Primary care patient safety strategy, NHS England, October 2024

“Involving patients in patient safety policy development and practice and in their care and treatment seems quite simple and straightforward on the face of it. However, in practice it has proved exceedingly difficult, judging from past attempts in the NHS, and patient safety crisis investigation reports. There are regular clarion calls made to involve patients more and they have continued for many years with mixed results.”

Patient Safety Commissioner, January 2024

This conference will enable you to:

  • Network with colleagues who are working to involve patients in improving patient safety
  • Reflect on patient perspective
  • Understand the practicalities of recruiting Patient Safety Partners
  • Recognise steps with the potential to make a big difference in patient safety
  • Improve the way you recruit, work with and support Patient Safety Partners
  • Develop your skills in embedding compassion and empathy into patient partnership
  • Learn from a case study involving patients in safety investigations
  • Reflect on ways to involve patients in the diagnosis process to improve patient safety
  • Examine the role of patients under the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
  • Understand how you can improve patient partnership, family engagement and involvement after serious incidents
  • Identify key strategies for support patients, their families and carers to be directly involved in their own or their loved one’s safety
  • Learn from case studies demonstrating patient partnership for patients safety in action
  • Examine methods of involving patients to improve patient safety in high risk areas
  • Self assess and reflect on your own practice
  • Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes

CHFG supports have a discount code of hcuk20chfg

To book please go to the organiser’s website