Survey: sign up to Safety

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Sign up to Safety is a national patient safety campaign announced by the Secretary of State for Health. The aim is for the NHS to reduce avoidable harm to patients by 50% in the next three years, which would save an estimated 6,000 lives.

In order to achieve this, EEAST must sign up to the five safety pledges set out in the campaign:

1. Put safety first. Commit to reduce avoidable harm in the NHS by half and make public the goals and plans developed locally.

2. Continually learn. Make our organisation more resilient to risk, by acting on the feedback from patients and by constantly measuring and monitoring how safe our services are.

3. Honesty. Be transparent with people about our progress to tackle patient safety issues and support staff to be candid with patients and their families if something goes wrong.

4. Collaborate. Take a leading role in supporting local collaborative learning, so that improvements are made across all of the local services that patients use.

5. Support. Help people understand why things go wrong and how to put them right. Give staff the time and support to improve and celebrate the progress.

For each pledge, we need to set out the actions we will take to improve patient safety.

As a starting point, we need to understand how safe we are as an organisation and to do this, we need information from you. We’re asking you to complete this quick survey to help us to understand where our areas of good practice are, and highlight the areas we need to work on.

Once we have this information, we will be coming back to you for specific suggestions for areas that have been highlighted for improvement. This will then be the basis of our patient safety strategy and the way in which we will meet the campaign’s target of reducing avoidable harm.

Published 29th October 2014 

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