NHS England: Patient safety learning response toolkit (16 August 2022)

Summary

The NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) promotes a range of system-based approaches for learning from patient safety incidents. These national tools and guides have been developed to incorporate the well-established SEIPS framework (Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) to help support organisations implementing PSIRF.

Content

Tools and guides

• Patient safety incident investigation report template
• Introduction to SEIPS
• Four tools to help in the initial stages of a learning response
• Four guides to inform a response to a patient safety incident or cluster of incidents
• Four guides to support the exploration of everyday work
• Two tools to enable organisations to respond to broad patient safety issues
• Two tools to support information gathering and synthesis of information
• Developing safety actions