Patient Safety

The HIN’s Patient Safety team supports the delivery of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and its vision ‘for the NHS to continuously improve patient safety’. 

From mitigating serious complications such as avoiding brain injuries in childbirth or identifying deterioration much earlier, to medicines safety and enhancing the culture of safety, we are working locally and nationally to improve patient safety. We spread and adopt patient-centered, evidence-based innovations, and connect people with shared problems in collaborative environments to tackle their challenges together.

We are one of 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) across the country, hosted by health innovation networks, funded and nationally coordinated by NHS England.

Our current programme supports the following core areas of work:

Martha’s Rule & Managing Deterioration
Maternity & Neonatal
Medicines Safety
System Safety

Explore our projects to improve patient safety below.

Patient Safety projects

Reducing harm for people with chronic pain by reducing the prescribing of opioids Contents — Overview — Our local programme — Working together — Working in partnership with people living with chronic pain — Using opioid prescribing data for system audit-feedback — Blogs
- Patient Experience Patient Safety
South London Optimisation and Stabilisation of the Preterm Infant Contents — Overview — Our local programme — Working together — Working in partnership with people living with chronic pain — Using opioid prescribing data for system audit-feedback — Blogs
- Patient Experience Patient Safety
System Safety Contents — Overview — Our local programme — Working together — Working in partnership with people living with chronic pain — Using opioid prescribing data for system audit-feedback — Blogs
- Patient Experience Patient Safety
Tackling Myasthenia Gravis Myasthenia gravis (MG) is one of several thousand known diseases affecting fewer than one in 2,000 people. It is a rare disease and has not received the attention it deserves. We were funded by UCB to
- Patient Experience Patient Safety
Medicines Safety in Care Homes Medicine Safety in Care Homes The aim of the programme is to reduce medicine administration errors in care homes by 50% by March 2024, through medicines optimisation and quality improvement. The HIN e
- Patient Experience Patient Safety Women's health
Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Programme At the Health Innovation Network (HIN) South London, we found that many people who use our services need information in their first language, which is often not English. We have successfully and local
- Patient Experience Patient Safety Women's health
Perinatal health inequalities: bringing people together to make pregnancy and birth safer Women and birthing people from a Black, Asian or mixed ethnic background are up to five times more likely to experience poor outcomes during their maternity journey, including a higher risk of materna
- Involvement Patient Experience Patient Safety Women's health
Managing Deterioration in non-acute settings The Health Innovation Network (HIN) are working with partners across south London to support care homes to increase the use of deterioration management tools to improve the identification, management,
- Community and Care Homes Patient Safety Workforce
Preventing prescribing errors in south London with PINCER PINCER is the Pharmacist-led Information technology iNtervention for the reduction of Clinically important ERrors in medicines management. Project overviewPINCER searches GP clinical systems using com
- Patient Safety
Covid Oximetry @home and virtual ward The HIN has been commissioned to support a drive to equip members and partners to offer the Covid Oximetry @home model.
- Covid-19 Patient Safety
Catheter Care South London Collaborative Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are healthcare associated infections occurring in patients using urinary catheters.
- Patient Safety
PReCePT – Prevention of Cerebral Palsy in Preterm Labour Back to Maternity and Neonatal Magnesium sulphate has been demonstrated as an effective neuroprotectant for babies delivered prematurely. Antenatal administration reduces the risk of cerebral palsy by
- Patient Safety
Sepsis Sepsis Sepsis is a deadly reaction to infection, occurring when an infection causes the immune system to go into overdrive and cause damage to the body. In England, there is estimated to be 150,000 ca
- Patient Safety

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