Summary
‘Never events’ are patient safety incidents that are defined as being wholly preventable. They are considered wholly preventable because guidance or safety recommendations are in place at a national level and should have been implemented by all providers in the healthcare system. This should act as a strong systemic barrier to prevent the serious incident from happening.
The latest national report from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) says that 'Never Events' should not be defined as such if they don’t have strong enough barriers in place to stop them happening.It recommends that seven Never Events on a list of 15 should be removed until better barriers are in place.
They are using the Safety Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) model to carry out the analysis. SEIPS provides a framework for understanding structures, processes and outcomes in healthcare, and their relationships.
Content
HSIB has made three safety recommendations as a result of this report - two to NHS England and NHS Improvement, and one to the Centre for Perioperative Care.
NHS England and NHS Improvement
- It is recommended that NHS England and NHS Improvement revises the Never Events list to remove events, such as those presented in this national learning report, that do not have strong and systemic safety barriers.
- It is recommended that NHS England and NHS Improvement develops and commissions programmes of work to find strong and systemic safety barriers for specific incidents where barriers are felt to be possible but are not currently available.
Centre for Perioperative Care
- It is recommended that the Centre for Perioperative Care reviews and revises the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) policy to increase standardisation of safety critical steps that are common across all procedures.
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