WE CARE: Winner of the 'Shared learning' category 2019

Summary

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Patient Safety Team's values became a golden thread to improve patient safety by 'Sharing How We Care' – a monthly patient safety newsletter and annual conference.

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The Trust values of WE CARE have been in place for several years. In 2018, they held their first 'sharing how we care conference' to include Trust staff in how they share learning from patient experience, incidents, inquests and claims across the Trust. 

This was followed by a monthly patient safety newsletter (started September 2018), pulled together by an editorial committee and sent to every single member of staff in the Trust (as well as Clinical Commissioning Group [CCG] and Care Quality Commission [CQC], governors and Nationwide Emergency Department Sample [NEDS]) .

Soon, teams were sending written articles about improvements they had made to their services and the newsletter has been instrumental in helping to triangulate data from patient experience, incidents and claims to develop the brand for new patient safety initiatives they have branded as ‘sharing how we care for you’ .

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