NHS England: How the national Patient Safety team engages patients for patient safety (18 September 2023)

Summary

The theme of this year’s World Patient Safety Day is ‘engaging patients for patient safety’. In this blog, Hester Wain, Head of Patient Safety Policy, along with Penny Phillips and Douglas Findlay, two of the patient safety partners working to support the national Patient Safety team, introduce NHS England’s work with patient safety partners. To support other organisations going through this process, the blog also shares some of the approaches NHS England has taken in introducing patient safety partners.