Patient Safety

In law, all healthcare boards have a duty of quality and safety. GGI can help boards be assured they are meeting these responsibilities, and putting service quality and patient safety first. Our Quality and Safety subject matter experts can help boards by:

• Undertaking a safety and quality review of the board, to help the board be assured that it is properly integrating these issues into all decision taking and assurance work

• Reviewing governance systems and structures, to help the board have ongoing comfort that its working practices are putting quality and safety first. The CNST requires all boards to evaluate their patient safety system on an annual basis

• Providing specialist board development sessions on quality and patient safety, and to ensure that all board members are up to date on issues around meeting the national requirements and instituting better practice.

Commissions have included:

• Working in partnership with Datix to publish; What every healthcare board needs to understand about patient safety, Cost savings in healthcare organisations: A guide for Boards and Commissioners. Here is a video presentation of the report.
• Working in partnership with UK Quality Collaboration to publish Quality and Cost Reductions How do we exploit the opportunities for improving quality whilst saving costs?
• Delivering a board development session for Central West London Community Services on patient safety, and board responsibilities and patient safety reporting.
• Devliering development session for University College London Hospitals NHS Trust board committees to ensure that committee work properly supported application of level three of CNST
• Delivering a development session for the board on patient safety and ensuring The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust board work provided better assurance for CNST
• In partnership with Tunstall and the English Community Care Association, publishing a national review of quality and safety of care in the home for people with long term conditions - as care approaches develop to meet the needs of people with long term conditions, and as more care is provided in patients' own homes, the way in which healthcare organisations consider quality and safety will need to change.