Ramside Hall, 14th May 2015

The Academic Health Science Network for North East and North CumbriaPatient Safety Collaborative

An introduction to the PSC

Health Education North East

Faculty of Patient Safety: Collaboration across Human Factors and Simulation in the North East

Mr Tony RobertsPatient Safety Collaborative Interim Programme Lead, AHSN NE&NC

Deputy Director (Clinical Effectiveness), South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustJoint Deputy Director Joint Deputy Director, North East Quality Observatory System (NEQOS),

Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Health Care Research, Durham University

Regionally-based system-wide integrators- Improving the health and wealth of the country -

AHSN NENC• Improve health & wealth• Partnership

– Research– Practice– Industry

• Members– Trusts, CCGs, Universities

• Stakeholders– Local Authorities, Industry, NIHR Clinical Research Networks,

Clinical Networks, Other NHS bodies and organisations (like HENE), Public Health, LETB, NEQOS, NHS England

National context

Sign up to Safety Campaign6,000 lives

Patient Safety Collaboratives

‘Q Initiative’(5,000 Safety Fellows)

Regulation/Outcomes framework

Francis/Berwick

• A network of 15 patient safety Collaboratives across England

• Tackle the leading causes of harm to patients using QI, innovation & evidence based solutions, supported centrally

• Offer staff, users, carers and patients the opportunity to work together locally to tackle specific safety concerns

• Build patient safety and improvement capability – quality and safety science education across professional groups

• Raise awareness – create energy, build a safety movement• Ambition - will be the largest and most comprehensive

collaborative improvement initiative in the world• Will (must) work cross sector and cross service

What is the patient safety collaborative programme and what will the Collaboratives look like?

http://www.health.org.uk/areas-of-work/programmes/q-initiative/

The collaborative so far: involvement

Wider

engagement

Core member contacts

Steering Group

Core Team:

• 142 subscribers• 2 major engagement events

• Trusts: 9/13• CCGs: 7/12• Universities: 5/5

• ~16 members• AHSN, Trusts, CCGs &

Primary Care, HENE, NECS, Universities, Patient Leaders, NHS England

• Interim Programme Lead (0.2 WTE)

• Interim Programme Manager (0.2 – 0.4 WTE)

• Projects and Communications Manager (0.6 WTE)

The collaborative so far: projectsProjects adopted from AHSN

Medicines optimisation

ThinkSAFE

Lithium safety

Hip fracture

PSC Project call 2014/15

Serious infections (CAP/Sepsis)

Pressure ulcers

Deteriorating child

Acute Kidney Injury

Falls

Preventing hip fractures

Alignment with national priorities

Contacts

Tony RobertsInterim Programme LeadTony.Roberts@stees.nhs.uk

Cate QuinnInterim Programme ManagerCQuinnSolutions@gmail.com