Sign up to Safety: Monitor commits to improving safety and reducing avoidable harm in the NHS
24 Jun 2014 02:57 PM
Monitor is supporting the Sign up to Safety campaign
which aims to reduce avoidable harm by 50% and save 6,000 lives over the next 3
years.
The Sign up to
Safety campaign, launched today by the Secretary of State for
Health, is designed to strengthen patient safety in the NHS and make it the
safest healthcare system in the world.
The
campaign aims to deliver harm free care for every patient, every time,
everywhere. It champions openness and honesty and supports everyone to improve
the safety of patients.
We’re encouraging NHS foundation trusts to Sign up
to Safety and make their services more safe and to dramatically reduce rates of
avoidable harm in their hospitals.
What signing up to safety means
NHS
foundation trusts are being asked to develop a plan that describes what they
will do to reduce harm and save lives, by working to reduce the causes of harm
and take a preventative approach. By committing to Sign up to Safety you
will:
- publicly declare how your NHS foundation trust will
improve safety in your hospitals
- turn your proposed actions into a safety improvement
plan
- engage your staff and patients in the campaign and link
to existing safety initiatives
- encourage reporting of patient safety
incidents
- regularly report progress against your plan to improve
safety in your hospitals, explaining action taken in response to safety
alerts
How
to Sign up to Safety
Visit the Sign up to Safety
website where you’ll find more information about the
campaign and what you need to do to sign up your organisation. The website also
contains:
- downloadable resources to help you kick off your local
communications work
- information about what the first 7 Sign up to Safety NHS
foundation trusts are doing locally
- links to useful patient safety improvement tools and
resources
You
can follow the campaign’s progress on Twitter via @SignuptoSafety and join the conversation
using #SignuptoSafety
Monitor’s commitment
Monitor’s mission is to make the healthcare sector
work better for patients. Patients expect that when they go into hospital they
will be helped, not harmed.
We’re committed to improving safety and reducing
avoidable harm. That’s why we support Sign up to
Safety, which kick-starts a renewed focus on patient safety and
has the potential to help save thousands of lives.
Monitor will be working with NHS foundation trusts to
make their services more safe and support them to dramatically reduce rates of
avoidable harm.
How
Monitor will support the campaign
Monitor will offer leadership and advice to NHS
foundation trusts who participate in Sign up to Safety and who will develop and
own locally their improvement plans.
Monitor will also point NHS foundation trusts to
its national partners where specific expertise is
required.
The
chief executives of Monitor, NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, the NHS
Trust Development Authority, NHS Improving Quality and the NHS Litigation
Authority have jointly written to healthcare leaders to explain why leadership
is crucial to strengthening patient safety.
Who’s signed up?
The
following 7 NHS foundation trusts have joined Sign up to Safety for the initial
phase and are developing their patient safety improvement
plans:
- Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- The
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation
Trust
- Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation
Trust
- 2gether NHS Foundation Trust