Training & Action for Patient Safety (TAPS) Sharing Event

OnTuesday 15th May 2012, 70 Health and Social Care colleagues came together at Tankersley Manor, Near Sheffield to share learning and for the launch of the new Safety In Numbers network.

We would like to thank everyone who participated and helped to make the day a success.  The outcomes, presentations and other details from the event are now available for those who did attend and those who were unable to make it on the day.

Hosted by John Bibby of Peaks Partnership and Rebecca Lawton Co-Director of the YH HIEC Patient Safety theme the day included:

Introduction by Dr John Bibby, Improvement Specialist – Peaks Partnership, Deputy Medical Director – NHS Bradford and Airedale, and General Practitioner

John Bibby opened the event by thanking everyone for attending and setting the scene for the day.  John went on to set out some of the context for why patient safety was important to everyone including some of the current reports and statistics.  Outlining the Training and Action for Patient Safety (TAPS) programme (hyperlink) delivered in partnership between YH HIEC, Peaks Partnership and Health organisations across the region John emphasised the importance of the collaborative approach and the importance TAPS puts on measures.

 John’s full presentation is available to download 

 Sarah Fraser networking master class and workshop

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. She is in demand as a speaker and workshop presenter, and has written numerous papers, articles and guides around the topics of the spread of better practice, complex systems, culture and behaviour in organisations, breakthrough collaboratives and various improvement methodologies such as TQM, and Lean.

Sarah is a published author with a range of titles available.  As an independent consultant Sarah spends much of her time working with large-scale improvement initiatives in theUSAandUKas well as inSweden,Denmark,Norway, theNetherlandsandCanada. Her portfolio of work covers both project work as well as giving presentations and running interactive development sessions. She has been a Visiting Professor atMiddlesexUniversity(London).

Find out more about Sarah’s session including the language, technology, mathematics and types of networks as well as your feedback on what you need from the Safety in Numbers network.

Safety In Numbers Network Launch

Dr Mark Purvis, GP and Director of Primary Care Postgraduate Education, Yorkshire & Humber and Mr Ray Cuschieri, Deputy Medical Director, Doncaster & Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust formally launched the Safety In Numbers network.

Mark began by setting the context for the launch “At a time when a lot of change is happening in the NHS including a shift for education from the SHA to the new era of LETBs I am pleased to be here today with a group of people who don’t believe that healthcare is a market where providers work in isolation but who want to work together to collaborate and share.”

Turning to safety in numbers Mark focused on what this meant stating that the “numbers” aspect is not about the 914,000 annual safety events in the NHS or the number of deaths but rather a number of people standing together and sharing what works for you; energising participating and making the most of an opportunity to share learning, experience, knowledge and tools.

Ray focussed on the learning aspects “I like the quote – A wise man is the one who knows there is still a lot to learn – and this applies to patient safety”

Ray went on to highlight some of the benefits to joining the Safety In Numbers network.

    • Connect with colleagues across the region working on similar patient safety issues
    • Access to free resources currently including SAVI videos and Introduction to Patient Safety on-line module
    • Participate in our Patient Safety On-line Forum
    • Receive up to date news and updates on all things patient safety through Twitter(@safetyinumbers) and regular e-bulletins

Ray completed the launch be encouraging attendees to really use the opportunity to share and spread learning and to create the rippling currents that can reach further really make an impact for patient safety in the region.

Innovation Prize winners

Thank you to everyone who submitted an innovation for the first round of our innovation competition.  Dawn Lawson, Managing Director of YH HIEC, Dr Mark Purvis, GP and Director of Primary Care Postgraduate Education, Yorkshire & Humber and  Mr Ray Cuschieri, Deputy Medical Director, Doncaster & Bassetlaw NHS Foundation Trust  were delighted to announce that the joint winners were  Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust through improving the Prioritisation of Acutely Ill Patients on the Acute Medical Floor and York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and their innovation  Patient Comfort Rounds  – Rapid spread approach.  Porter brook Medical Centre were runners up with their work on The Assessment of the Sick Child.

All three innovations will be shared through the HIEC web-site shortly and we are looking to organise on-line forums to discuss these in more detail with your colleagues who delivered the improvements.

In the meantime we already have a number of excellent Patient Safety Case studies which are available to access now.

View photographs of the recipients receiving their prizes.

Sharing learning workshops

 A key part of the day was sharing learning and a number of colleagues from across the region presented their patient safety initiatives in three different workshops – leaving plenty of time for discussion and questions.  The presentations, Q&A sessions and links to more detailde case studies across acute, primary and community care are available.

Interviews with participants

On the day we interviewed colleagues about their patient safety initiatives and innovations and their experience of working with the HIEC.  These interviews will be available for download shortly.

 HIEC resources now and in the future

Following the workshops where participants had heard from colleagues working with the HIEC to improve patient safety in their own organisations John Bibby of Peaks Partnership and Rebecca Lawton Co-Director of the YH HIEC Patient Safety theme summarised the current work of the HIEC including tools, resources and support available forYorkshireand Humber Health and Social Care organisations including:

Highlighting the end of HIEC funding in the future John went on to explain a potential model of sustainability for spreading and continuing the TAPS approach within organisations which is currently being discussed with Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

The full presentation is available for download 

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