West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust: Improving patient safety

Summary

West Suffolk is first of a small number of trusts in England that are part of a pilot programme recently launched by NHS Improvement and NHS England called the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). A national initiative, it is designed to further improve the quality and safety of the care we provide through learning from patient safety incidents.

PSIRF outlines how providers should respond to patient safety incidents, and how and when an investigation should be carried out. It includes the requirement for the publication of a local Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP), which sets out how trusts will continually improve the quality and safety of the care they provide, as well as the experience which patients, families and carers have when using our services.

Find out more about what West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust are doing.