Our work
This HIEC Patient Safety programme focuses on providing a multi-disciplinary workforce with the knowledge, tools, skills and motivation to invent, adopt and spread safer ways of working. We have a number of projects being implemented now and planned for the future including:
TAPS Training and Action for Patient Safety is a new training programme helping multi-professional clinical teams to develop innovative solutions to address common patient safety problems, such as:
- Handover
- Medicines safety
- Suicide prevention
- VTE assessment and management
- Patient transfer
- Falls
Situational Awareness Vital Insights (SAVI)
This interactive situational awareness tool is being designed as a web-based system (or stand-alone DVD) for use in the induction of new staff to help enhance their situational awareness as they begin practice in healthcare. more …
Introduction to patient safety online training module
Introduction to Patient Safety is an innovative and interactive new online training module for health and social care staff developed by the Yorkshire Quality & Safety Research Group, Bradford Institute for Health Research and the Yorkshire and Humber HIEC.
As the title suggests it is an Introduction to Patient Safety helpful for existing NHS and Social Care staff to meet their CPD and to form part of inductions for new staff. more …
Using behaviour change techniques to implement patient safety advice
We are working with 4 organisations using a model of professional behaviour change which helps to focus ‘strategies’ to address different implementation challenges experienced in practice when implementing NPSA alerts. more …
