Patient safety toolkit
This toolkit is intended to aid the assessment of different aspects of patient safety with a view to making improvements.
Background to the Toolkit
Purpose
The identification and reduction of avoidable harm is a major priority for the NHS. There has been widespread attention to this issue in secondary care. Now primary care is increasingly coming under the spotlight. With funding from the NIHR School for Primary Care Research a team of researchers has developed a Patient Safety Toolkit for general practice. This developmental work involved experts from Nottingham, Manchester, Keele, Southampton, Birmingham, Oxford, Exeter and Bristol, with user and public involvement throughout the project.
With funding from the NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, and developed in partnership with the Clinical Innovation and Research Centre, the toolkit is now available on the RCGP website. General practices can use the various tools to identify a wide range of patient safety issues and make improvements to help prevent patients from being harmed.
