The Patient Safety Strategy was designed around an ethos of learning and acting when things go wrong. The ambition is to make the NHS the safest system in the world to receive healthcare and it is thought that the implementation of the strategy could save nearly 1000 extra lives per year from 2023/24, whilst saving £100 million in care costs.
One year on and the first annual progress report has been published. Despite the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, improvements have been made against the ambitions laid out in the strategy. Although the virus has impacted the strategy's pace of implementation, the patient safety incident management system (PSIMS) is scheduled to be rolled-out in early 2021, progress has been made towards involving patients and carers in their own safety; as well as integrating digital technology and embedding patient safety in education across NHS settings.
Delegates will take away the following benefits of attending this face-to-face conference:
Helen is an experienced leader in organisational effectiveness and transformational change. She has held healthcare leadership roles globally with the World Health Organisation(WHO) where she led the global 'Patients for Patient Safety' programme and in the UK, where she serves as Chief Executive of the National Patient Safety Agency. Helen has also held leadership positions at the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), Parliamentary Health Services Ombudsman and the Charity Commission. Her passion for improved patient safety is informed by personal family insight into the impact of unsafe care and the ineffectiveness of organisational responses to learn from error.
Catherine Dale has nearly twenty years’ experience in the NHS in London, including more than fifteen years in service improvement and transformation roles. Catherine is the co-lead for the national patient safety collaborative programme enhancing reliable care for deteriorating patients. She is an expert in the quality improvement methodology Experience-Based Co-Design (EBCD) and developed the Point of Care Foundation's EBCD toolkit. In 2017 she taught on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s inaugural ‘Co-design College’ in Boston, USA. Catherine has a Masters in Business Psychology and served as a Labour Councillor in the London Borough of Southwark from 2014 to 2018.
Sharing the recurrent investigative themes and recommendations from NHS Resolution to reduce claims. Gain an understanding of why patients and families claim and what patients and staff want following harm. Hear and access free support materials to improve claims risk management that can be applied locally to support improve both patient and staff safety.
Catherine Dale, Programme Director - Patient Safety and Experience, Health Innovation Network (confirmed)
Justine Sharpe, Regional Safety and Learning Lead (London), NHS Resolution (confirmed)
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Jen Gilroy-Cheetham (confirmed)
Jen Gilroy-Cheetham’s life changed forever six months after having her second child. Jen was diagnosed with a rare neuroendocrine tumour and advised she would need to undergo open surgery to have half of her stomach removed. Complications led to a intensely challenging set of circumstances that Jen, now recovered, shares as her experiences as a patient from a hospital bed - watching all of the healthcare staff around her - actors on a stage - doing what they could to make her feel safe. In reliving her journey, Jen highlights what’s needed within a healthcare setting to deliver patient safety.
Amelia Newbold, Risk Management Lead, Browne Jacobson (invited)
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) will support the NHS to operate systems, underpinned by behaviours, decisions and actions, that assist learning and improvement, and allow organisations to examine incidents openly without fear of inappropriate sanction, support those affected and improve services.
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Jen Gilroy-Cheetham, Sharing her patient experience (confirmed)
Amelia Newbold, Risk Management Lead, Browne Jacobson (invited)
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Where possible, we will request food is sourced locally to reduce food miles, use seasonal vegetables, red tractor certified meat and eggs from free range hens.
Patient safety should be a thread of learning that connects all staff working in the NHS, across all disciplines, from apprentice and undergraduate right through to retirement. The NHS cannot expect to achieve improvements in patient safety if it is not embedded within education curriculums and training.
The Patient Safety Academy has been formed from collaboration between two research groups in the University of Oxford, with expertise in patient safety, human factors/ergonomics and improvement science; the Quality, Reliability, Safety and Teamwork Unit (QRSTU) and Oxford Simulation Teaching and Research (OxSTaR) Project involves provision of human factors patient safety training to all team members involved in a project. The PSA team provide support which enables the staff to choose the areas of concern they want to focus on, work together to generate potential solutions and then trial these solutions. The result is staff–led projects with improvements which fit their service and with successes and learning they can share with other teams.
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Helen Hughes, Chief Executive, Patient Safety Learning (confirmed)
Helen Higham, Co-Director of the Oxford Patient Safety Academy and Consultant Anaesthetist, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust (confirmed)
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Although healthcare systems differ from country to country, improving patient safety encounters similar challenges. The NHS can benefit from exploring successful practices from elsewhere in the world and learn from what has not worked so well.
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Academics/Researchers
Anaesthetists
Chairs/Members of CCGs
Chief Clinical Operations Officers
Chief Executives
Chief Medical Officers
Clinical Directors
Clinical Standards & Patient Experience
Directors of Infection Prevention and Control
Directors of Public Health
Directors/Heads of Service Improvement
Directors/Heads of Strategic Development
Directors/Managers of Commissioning
Estate and Facilities Managers
General Practitioners
HCAI Managers
Heads of Charities
Heads of Innovation
Heads of Maternity Services
Heads of Nursing
Heads of Patient Care
Heads of Patient Safety
Heads of Pharmacy
Heads of Quality & Care
Heads of Risk & Compliance
Health & Safety Managers
HR Directors/Managers
Infection Control Leads
Inspection Managers
Medical Directors
Microbiologists
Patient Experience Leads
Patient Safety Managers
Programme Directors
Specialist Nurses
Surgeons
Trust Board Members
Ward Managers
