Service redesign - Eight steps to better patient safety

One in 10 patients experience some sort of safety incident when they go into hospital. Gill Hastings shares tips from four acute hospital sites that are testing ways to make patients safer.

Making hospitals safer for patients may be a large and inherently complex task, but it isn’t impossible. Through its £4m, four-year safer patients initiative, the Health Foundation is working closely with four acute services and experts from the US Institute of Healthcare Improvement to find out what works on the ground to improve patient safety.
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The Health Foundation's Safer Patients Initiative: quality improvement in action, April 2006

It's not just MRSA: making healthcare safer for patients, September 2005

Making healthcare safer for patients, September 2004

The Health Foundation’s Safer Patient’s Initiative

National Patient Safety Agency’s seven steps to patient safety guide

Institute of Healthcare Improvement white paper on seven leverage points for organisation-level improvement in healthcare

Slides from The Health Foundation’s presentations to the National Patient Safety Agency’s 2006 Patient Safety Conference:

The role of senior leaders in sustaining an organisational focus on patient safety through The Health Foundation's Safer Patients Initiative

Leadership through teams: how teams can lead improvement in patient safety