Summary
Patient safety continues to be a significant issue in healthcare and a focus of both quality improvement and academic research. The NHS published its first Patient Safety Strategy in July 2019. As part of this, it was agreed that the first NHS-wide Patient Safety Syllabus would support a transformation in patient safety education and training in the NHS.
The Patient Safety Strategy includes ambitions to develop training in the fundamentals of patient safety that would be relevant to all NHS staff, clinical and non-clinical, as well as more detailed training and education that could be incorporated into clinical and non-clinical undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education and continuing professional development. T
The syllabus is designed for all NHS staff and is structured to provide both a technical understanding of safety in complex systems and a suite of tools and approaches that will:
- Build safety for patients.
- Reduce the risks created by systems and practices.
- Develop a genuine culture of patient safety.
The patient safety syllabus comprises five sequential domains of safety and forms the basis of the detailed curriculum guidance designed for specific levels of the NHS.
Content
This document provides details of the curricular content required to deliver the patient safety syllabus. It is designed for training course providers so that they are able to design new training, or adapt their existing training, in a way that allows accreditation against the requirements of the syllabus. It will also enable learners (healthcare staff) who require the curriculum to understand the expected outcomes of the training.
The guide provides:
- An overview of the five levels of the curriculum training.
- Curriculum guidance - Links to e-learning for levels 1 and 2, Levels 3-5, Key literature.
- The NHS Patient Safety Syllabus (tab 4) v2.1 (2022).
- List of abbreviations and acknowledgements.
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