Summary
In advance of the second annual World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2020, the theme of which is Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety’, this blog from Patient Safety Learning looks at how staff safety relates to patient safety.
Content
In this blog, Patient Safety Learning make the case that staff safety is intrinsically linked to patient safety. It sets out how the six foundations for safer care from the report, A Blueprint for Action, can be used to consider how making improvements to staff safety complements patient safety.[1]
It looks in more detail at four key aspects of staff safety and how these areas are intertwined with improving patient safety:
- Physical safety – considering how the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of this in ensuring patient and staff safety is not jeopardised.
- Safe staffing levels – outlining the importance of this to protect the welfare of staff and avoid creating conditions in which patient safety incidents are more likely to occur.
- Psychological safety – setting out the importance of having organisational cultures that enable staff to feel secure in speaking up about incidents of unsafe care, ensuring that opportunities for learning and innovation are not shut down by a blame culture.
- Support to staff after patient safety incidents – highlighting the key role that providing emotional support to health and social care staff who are involved in patient safety incidents can play in fostering an environment of openness and learning.
It concludes by setting out the activities Patient Safety Learning will undertake over the course of September to raise awareness of, and promote action for, staff safety.
References:
1. Patient Safety Learning, The Patient-Safe Future: A Blueprint for Action, 2019.
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