September has been a very busy time for us - we have kickstarted autumn with our first Long Term Ventilation workshop, Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative event, plus Human Factors and Measurement for Improvement masterclasses. You can read more about some of these events in this Newsletter
Caroline Angel, Director – Patient Safety, Eastern Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC)
1) The latest National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) impact report on maternity and neonatal care highlights some interesting findings on the impact of NICE guidance.
2) The NHS Improvement bi-annual official statistics reports include a raft of data sets, trends and analysis on patient safety incident reporting. The number of incidents reported to the NRLS for England continues to increase. Incident categories help us understand that certain types of incident are more common than others. Nationally, the top reported from April 2017-19 were ‘patient accident’, ‘implementation of care and ongoing monitoring/review’, ‘access, admission, transfer, discharge’ and ‘medication.’ which show a great connection to the PSC workstreams.
Read more about these, as well as some exciting new workstreams in this issue
Full speed ahead this autumn!
A new strategy for patient safety
Patient Safety Congress
