NHS England: Patient safety health inequalities review (PSHIR) tool (14 July 2022)

Summary

NHS England have developed a review tool to support NHS organisations in reducing inequalities in patient safety.

Content

NHS England asks all organisations to undertake this review and:

1 Respond back to NHSE in relation to:

• Communication barriers.
• Reduced patient engagement (activation) in their care.
• Workforce’s conscious & unconscious biases.
• Biases that are embedded across the system.
• Transitions of care.
• Inaccessibility of care (including digital exclusion, and geographical isolation).
• Limited insights/data.

2 Adapt their existing Equalities Impact Assessment to reflect this new tool.

3  What specific next actions are you taking as a team that can publish as part of the patient safety health inequalities roadmap? E.g,

• Adapting existing Equalities Impact Assessment (EQIA)/Project/programme plan.
• Creating new SMART objectives/programmes of work/targets.
• Revisiting the data/evidence base relating to inequalities or updating your monitoring process.
• Revising/expanding the scope of ongoing stakeholder involvement.

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