Patient Safety – supporting NHS organisations to improve patient safety and quality of care
Improving patient safety requires expertise, structured support and the space to learn. UCLPartners provides all three.
Patient safety is one of the most important and complex challenges facing the NHS.
Frontline clinicians and patient safety leads are often closest to the problems that need solving, but face significant barriers to implementing change: limited time, stretched capacity and the difficulty of securing organisational buy-in. UCLPartners works with NHS trusts and health and care providers to adopt patient safety innovations and embed quality improvements that genuinely last.
Who this is for
NHS funded health and social care providers and commissioners within north, central and east London, including NHS trusts, primary care providers and local authority social care.
The service is particularly relevant to frontline clinicians, patient safety leads, midwives, pharmacists and nursing staff responsible for delivering care improvements, as well as the organisational leads who support them.
How it Works
UCLPartners is commissioned by NHS England to deliver patient safety support to health and care providers within the area. Rather than waiting for organisations to come to us, we proactively engage with trusts and providers to offer support for nationally prioritised patient safety improvement areas. These are:
Managing Deteriorating Patients
Implementation of Martha’s rule
Maternity and Neonatal
Patient Safety Improvement programme
Medicines Safety
Reducing harm from psychotropics used for behaviour that challenges in people with Learning Disability
Systems Safety
implementation of PSIRF
Our approach draws on proven quality improvement methodology and includes:
Shared learning across organisations
Networking and shared learning opportunities across organisations, so teams can learn from what is working elsewhere.
Support for quality improvement
Direct support to trusts in quality improvement and patient safety methodology.
Building workforce capability
Capacity and capability building within the clinical workforce, helping teams develop the skills and confidence to lead improvements themselves.
Key benefits
Improved patient safety outcomes
delivered through evidence-based innovations and quality improvement approaches.
Shared learning across organisations
reducing duplication and accelerating the spread of what works.
Practical support that builds lasting capability
within clinical teams, rather than creating dependency on external resource.
Toolkits and resources
Case studies
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Is this right for you?
Support is delivered through programme activities rather than direct funding, so clinical professionals need to have time available to engage with the work.
Organisational buy-in is also important; the most successful outcomes come where leadership actively supports frontline teams to participate. This service is commissioned by NHS England. If you would like to learn more or get involved, please contact the team.
Valentina Karas
Director of Implementation
valentina.karas@uclpartners.com
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