Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) are hosted by AHSNs with funding from NHS England and NHS Improvement. They deliver a series of National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes which are key elements of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. Our work helps reduce error, harm and death which can result from failures in the system and enhances safe, quality care – the national ambition is for the NHS to become comparable with the safest health care services in the world by 2025.
Our East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative (EMPSC) plays an essential role in identifying and spreading safer care initiatives, working alongside Integrated Care Systems (ICSs), provider collaboratives and wider health and care partners across the region.
During 2021-22 our work focussed on the following areas:
- Reducing the rate of stillbirths, neonatal death and brain injuries occurring during or soon after birth.
- Reducing harm associated with physical deterioration in adults and children.
- Reducing avoidable severe medication- related harm.
- Improving the safety and outcomes of inpatient mental healthcare.
- Supporting the spread and adoption of targeted discharge care bundles.
During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, our team played a key role in the response by supporting system partners – for example supporting care homes and the rollout of Covid Virtual Wards. The team continues to be integral to the recovery of services across safety priorities.
