Taking place on 15th May 2012 – the first 75 delegates will attend for free so book your place now.  Agenda now available.

The agenda for the day is now available

This event is being delivered in partnership with Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group and Peaks Partnership.

Why should I attend?

The event is an opportunity to:

• Learn more about the TAPS approach to Patient Safety and understand how it can be applied in your organisation.
• Sharing your own ideas to improve patient safety in General Practice, Hospitals, Mental Health Services and Nursing Homes – and learn from teams who have applied TAPS in these areas.
• Participate in a Masterclass run by Sarah Fraser on the topic of Networking for Patient Safety.   Sarah is well known in healthcare for her work on how good practice spreads, how improvements can be made at practitioner level and how organisations and teams can best work together.
• Be at the launch of our Patient Safety Network for Yorkshire and Humber.

Who should attend?

This event is for anyone interested in patient safety:

• Doctors, nurses, professions allied to medicine
• Pharmacists
• Trainees
• Risk managers
• Social care professionls
• Organisational Clinical Governance Leads and Patient Safety Leads

We welcome colleagues with all levels of knowledge and experience:

• People who have previously participated in a TAPS programme – together with managers and colleagues who want to know more.
• Those who have not previously participated in TAPS but want to hear more about the benefits and outcomes it has and can deliver – and how you can use this approach within your own team and organisation.
• Organisational leads who are interested in exploring how this approach can be applied more widely across the whole organisation.

 What else do I need to know?

This will be a full day event starting at 9.30am and ending at 4pm.  A full agenda will be published shortly.

The event is being held at Tankersley Manor, near Sheffield click here  for detailed directions.

Download the PDF flyer to share with colleagues.

Book now

The first 75 people to sign up will attend for free.  Thereafter a fee of £30 + VAT day delegate rate will be charged.

Delegates will be invoiced prior to the event.

If any of the free delegates cancel at less than 7 days’ notice then the £30 +VAT delegate rate will need to be paid in full.

Download the booking form for completion or complete the form below to book your place.

Further Information about TAPS

Training and Action for Patient Safety (TAPS) is a training programme to improve safety in the NHS, developed in Yorkshire and Humber by experts in the fields of patient safety and improvement science.

The TAPS programme takes place over a period of 20 weeks, and includes an on-line patient safety module and three workshops. Teams are supported to identify their own patient safety problem, to develop a solution, and to measure the impact of any intervention on practice and patient outcomes.

An initial pilot was delivered in the Bradford health community across eleven multi-professional teams, with between 3 and 9 members, during 2010.

Since 2010 over 50 multi-professional teams across Yorkshire and Humber have participated in six TAPS programmes taking place in Bradford, Doncaster, North-East Lincolnshire, and Sheffield, Leeds and York/Scarborough.  TAPS is currently being delivered in Hull.

TAPS is a truly multi-disciplinary programme which delivers benefits in a number of different ways.  As well as the obvious impact on patient safety of the interventions delivered by the different teams TAPS can also improve the relationships, communications, behaviours and, to some degree, the culture within organisations which can impact positively on other initiatives and issues.  Individual participants can apply an increased patient safety awareness and improvement skills to different patient safety problems in different contexts throughout their career.

A summary of the TAPS programme, its’ benefits and outcomes and feedback from NHS and other health professionals is now available as a briefing.

 “The TAPS programme gave us the opportunity to improve patient safety and professionally develop staff through education and training”  Ward Sister & Pharmacist

 “You can feel the change not just in the TAPS team, but across all staff on the wards.  I’m amazed at the success Specialist Registrar