Patient safety toolkit
This toolkit is intended to aid the assessment of different aspects of patient safety with a view to making improvements.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the following people for their contribution to this project:
Project Steering Group
- University of Nottingham (Professor Tony Avery, Kate Marsden, Dr Rachel Spencer, Dr Brian Bell, Dr Sarah Rodgers)
- University of Manchester (Professor Stephen Campbell, Professor Aneez Esmail, Dr Katherine Perryman, Dr David Reeves)
- University of Birmingham (Professor Paramjit Gill, Professor Shiela Greenfield, Dr Ian Litchfield, Dr Lucy Doos)
- University of Exeter (Professor Jose Valderas)
- University of Keele (Professor Umesh Kadam, Dr Mark Porcheret
- University of Southampton (Jane Barnett, Professor Michael Moore, Professor Paul Little)
- University of Oxford (Dr Ignacio Riccabello, Dr Jeffrey Aronson, Dr Daniel Lasserson)
- University of Durham (Dr Sarah Slight)
- University of Edinburgh (Professor Aziz Sheikh)
- University of Bristol (Professor Sarah Purdy)
- GP (Dr Manny Samra)
- PPI representative (Antony Chuter)
International Experts Group
- Professor Mike Pringle, President of the RCGP
- Professor Bruce Guthrie, University of Dundee, Scotland
- Dr Neil Houston, Clinical Lead for the Scottish Safety Improvement in Primary Care Collaborative
- Professor Tom Fahey, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Paul Bowie, Programme Director (Safety & Improvement) at NHS Education for Scotland
- Sathya Naidoo, Associate Postgraduate Dean, Health Education East Midlands
- Gordon Schiff, Associate Director at Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA
- Jurate Svarcaite, Head of Pharmaceutical Care Department at UAB Nemuno vaistine, Lithuania
- Andreas Soennichsen, Chair of General Medicine and Family Medicine at the University of Witten / Herdecke, Germany
- Michel Wensing Professor of Implementation Science, Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University, Nederlands
This toolkit was developed as part of the Patient Safety Spotlight Project, which was a one year collaboration between the NIHR Greater Manchester Primary Care Patient Safety Translational Research Centre and the RCGP from 2015-16. This report reviews the project’s impact and legacy. [PDF]