Patient safety
Overview
We support the delivery of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and its vision for the NHS to continuously improve patient safety.
Our work spans a range of priorities, from reducing serious complications such as avoidable brain injury in childbirth and improving the early identification of deterioration, to medicines safety and strengthening safety culture across the system.
We support the spread and adoption of patqient-centered, evidence-based innovations, and bring together people facing shared challenges to work collaboratively on solutions.
We are one of 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) across England, hosted by health innovation networks and funded and coordinated nationally by NHS England.
Areas of expertise
- Project and programme management
- Clinical expertise across midwifery and obstetrics
- Delivering patient-centered quality improvement across health and care systems
- Applying quality improvement methodologies and implementation science
- Designing and facilitating collaborative learning and improvement programmes
- Supporting co-design between patients and healthcare professionals
Our current programmes support the following core areas of work:
Addressing systemic discrimination for RM Partners
The challenge
Inequalities in cancer diagnosis persist. Overall, 20% of people have three or more conversations with GP staff before being diagnosed with cancer. For people from Asian, Black and mixed ethnic backgrounds, this rises to 33%. These disparities reflect wider systemic issues, including discrimination and socio-economic inequality.
Solution
We were commissioned by RM Partners to deliver a series of workshops on addressing systemic discrimination in cancer care and wider health inequalities.
The sessions were co-designed and co-facilitated with brap, a national equity and human rights organisation, and tailored for primary and secondary care teams. They aimed to:
- Build understanding of cancer inequalities
- Strengthen participants’ ability to recognise and challenge inequalities
- Support reflection on individual and organisational roles in reducing discriminatory practices
Understanding my bias and being aware of how it affects my patients, and how I can use this to treat them with compassion and equity.
Workshop attendee
70%
Over 70% of participants reported being “extremely satisfied” with the workshops
95%
More than 95% were “fairly” or “extremely” satisfied across all measures
87%
Understanding of local patterns of inequality increased from 45% to over 87% post-workshop, and remained high (84.1%) two months later
Get in touch
If you are looking to improve patient safety, address inequalities, or implement evidence-based safety improvements, we can support you to design and deliver effective change.
Projects
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