This course is aimed at those who wish to understand and implement SEIPS (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) with a focus on improving patient safety. The training will include extended masterclasses and practical NHS case studies to enable you to develop your skills in using SEIPS tools and framework in practice. The facilitators for this course will continue the journey beyond the course itself to support and enable you to develop your skills in SEIPS when you return to your organisation.

“The systems engineering initiative for patient safety (SEIPS) is a framework to help us understand outcomes within complex socio-technical systems, like healthcare…PSIRF encourages the use of SEIPS when investigating patient safety incidents. …Understanding SEIPS, and the tools that accompany it, is a great way for investigators to adopt an approach that can help us to start to ‘think in systems’ at different stages of an investigation.”

Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) January 2024

“Models and methods of work system design need to be developed and implemented to advance research in and design for patient safety. In this paper we describe how the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) model of work system and patient safety, which provides a framework for understanding the structures, processes and outcomes in health care and their relationships, can be used toward these ends.”

Professor P Carayon, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin

“SEIPS can be used as a general problem-solving tool (eg to guide how we learn and improve following a patient safety incident, to conduct a horizon scan, and to inform system design)… Patient safety incidents result from multiple interactions between work system factors. SEIPS prompts us to look for interactions rather than simple linear cause and effect relationships. When a learning response thoroughly examines the different work system components and their interactions safety actions can focus on wider system issues, not individuals.”

NHS England 2023

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