NHS Networks: Patient safety incident response framework (19 September 2024)

Summary

The blog is about the patient safety incident report framework (PSIRF) which sets out the NHS’s approach to developing and maintaining effective systems and processes for responding to patient safety incidents for the purpose of learning and improving patient safety. Joanna Fox explains that the aim of the PSIRF is to focus on what went right, what happened in all the occasions where care was delivered, what process was in place, what was the work environment doing to support such good practice, what individuals were involved. It encourages an approach of learning from good, just as much as learning from harm.