“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… The PSIRF replaces the Serious Incident Framework (SIF) (2015) and makes no distinction between ‘patient safety incidents’ and ‘Serious Incidents’. As such it removes the ‘Serious Incidents’ classification and the threshold for it. Instead, the PSIRF promotes a proportionate approach to responding to patient safety incidents by ensuring resources allocated to learning are balanced with those needed to deliver improvement. The PSIRF is not a different way of describing what came before – it fundamentally shifts how the NHS responds to patient safety incidents for learning and improvement.”
NHS England July 2024
“The PSIRF can be used by any healthcare service but is mandatory for services provided under the NHS Standard Contract, including acute, ambulance, mental health, and community healthcare providers. This includes maternity and all specialised services… Organisations that provide NHS-funded care under the NHS Standard Contract but are not NHS trusts or foundation trusts (e.g. independent provider organisations) are required to adopt this framework for all aspects of NHS-funded care and may apply this approach to their other services.. Primary care services contracted under the NHS Standard contract are required to comply with PSIRF.”
NHS England July 2024
This national conference looks at the practicalities of responding to patient safety incidents for learning and improvement under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). The conference will also update delegates on best practice in patient safety incident investigation and response systems and include an practical case study based overview of key tools and techniques that can be used to investigate incidents including under PSIRF including After Action Reviews, SEIPS and Thematic Reviews. There will be a focus on understanding your patient safety incident profile and managing and ensuring accountability for ongoing safety actions in response to recommendations for investigations. You will also receive a legal perspective on PSIRF and how PSIRF relates to the learning from deaths criteria, Medical Examiner and Coroner system. The conference will support you to compassionately involve those affected by patient safety incidents and challenge your pre existing lens to inspire cultural change with PSIRF and deliver improvement.
“PSIRF fundamentally shifts how the NHS responds to patient safety incidents for learning and improvement”
Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch
“The framework represents a significant shift in the way the NHS responds to patient safety incidents and is a major step towards establishing a safety management system across the NHS.”
NHS England
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