Training and Action for Patient Safety

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

TAPS is practical, involves online learning and team action.  It engages frontline staff and can be used to deliver results for local safety priorities – including CQUINs and QIPP.

  • TAPS aims to improve safety through action learning.
  • Multi-professional teams are supported to identify a local priority for patient safety, develop solutions, implement them, and measure improvement.
  • Teams from different organisations in the same health community learn together
  • The programme runs over 20 weeks.
  • Includes an orientation meeting, online learning module, one full day workshop and two half-day workshops, as well as on-going support.

TAPS in Yorkshire and the Humber

TAPS was designed by local patient safety experts and improvement specialists in 2009.  The TAPS programme was piloted in Bradford in 2010, and following a positive evaluation the programme was rolled out in North Lincolnshire, Doncaster and Sheffield during 2010/11.  TAPS programmes are currently running for teams in Leeds, York and Scarborough, and Hull.

How can you get involved?

Find out if we are delivering TAPS, or a TAPS spread workshop, in your area by contacting us [email protected]

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