Patient Safety Project

Despite the efforts of healthcare staff, patients suffer harm every day in healthcare systems. It is our duty to learn from these patient safety incidents to improve patient care. 

The Patient Safety Project aims to improve patient safety and facilitate learning and engagement opportunities.

This is done through:   

• Hosting and supporting a community of practice for professionals via an MS Teams channel
• Collecting and analysing patient safety data
• Learning events and webinars

We collect data from participating hospices, with the aim to inform quality improvement activities. The data we collect comprises of three core patient safety metrics: 

• Falls
• Pressure Ulcers 
• Medication Incidents

Please read our metric definitions if you aren't sure what is meant by any of the above terms.

Over 100 hospice inpatient units currently submit data to us. But we would like to even more hospices to take part.

Participating hospices receive their own data quarterly. This can be viewed in a time series chart, alongside the aggregated data for comparison.

Aggregated data is also presented at quarterly webinars.

The Patient Safety data collection is now open for hospices to take part. 

To send us your submission, you can complete our simple online form.

Please submit by the last day of the month after each quarter ends. For example, for quarter one (April, May, June), please submit your data by the last day of July.

Reports are generated and shared in the following months.

If you would like any more information about our patient safety work, please contact our clinical team