Primary care patient safety strategy: the general practice ‘due regard’ maturity matrix

Summary

The NHS Primary Care Patient Safety Strategy sets the ambition and vision for patient safety in primary care and encourages discussion and exploration across all primary care platforms. In February 2025, NHS England informed general practices that having regard to the primary care patient safety strategy and signing up for an administrator account with the Learn From Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service would become a contractual requirement in 2025/26.

This maturity matrix is a tool that is intended to help general practices understand where they are on their patient safety journey and what actions they can take to improve. It is also designed to aid Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) in understanding what might be considered as evidence of practices having taken due regard.

Please note the full document at the link below can only be accessed when logged into the NHS Futures Collaboration Platform.