The Royal College of Pathologists: Patient safety and quality strategy 2019

Summary

This strategy sets out how the Royal College of Pathologists will support patient safety. Through this strategy, the College aims to engage and empower pathologists and their teams, at all stages in their careers, to continuously improve the safety of the services and care they provide. The College will support the development of safer cultures and systems with patient-centred collaborative working across the interfaces of care.

Content

The College’s vision of patient safety:

• Compassionate professional leadership that supports a strong safety culture across all areas of service delivery including the importance of teamwork, staff psychological safety and wellbeing, and openness and support for learning.
• Increased capability and capacity for continuous improvement of safety and quality of care across the pathology workforce.
• Networked learning so that success and failures identified in one part of the system can be readily accessed, understood and built into others. Representation and involvement of pathology in local and national initiatives to improve patient safety.
• The voices of patients, their families and carers are heard at every level of the service.