NHS England: World Patient Safety Day 2023 bitesize videos - Engaging patients for patient safety in the NHS (11 September 2023)

Summary

For World Patient Safety Day 2023, the NHS National Patient Safety Team have produced a series of bitesize videos around the theme of 'engaging patients for patient safety'. In this video, Joan Russell, head of patient safety (policy and partnerships), and Hester Wain, head of patient safety policy, in NHS England, talk about the background and history of formally involving patients to support the NHS to improve patient safety, and how this became part of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, followed by the Framework for Involving Patients in Patient Safety. They go on to provide an update on the work to introduce Patient Safety Partners across the NHS and future plans.