Centre for Perioperative Care draft consultation: National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) (May 2022)

Summary

The NatSSIPs 1 (2015) were a great step forward in providing a system and standards to provide safe care to patients undergoing invasive procedures. Following the implementation of the WHO checklist in 2009, NatSSIPs 1, with associated Local Standards, provided the next steps in progression of checks and standards to enhance procedural safety culture, and the vision of harm free procedures.

The new National Safety standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs2/NS2) represents the evolution of this document to include a UK wide remit, to be owned by the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) and to represent the collaboration across the four nations. The key aim to standardise, harmonise and educate (SHE) across organisations and procedural teams remains central to the NatSSIPs purpose.