AHSN Network 5 July 2106
- Patient Safety Collaboratives are led by local Academic Health Science Networks to improve patient safety, spread examples of success and influence system leaderships. The report lists achievements including:
- developing care bundles that reduced mortality after emergency laparotomies by 42 per cent
- establishing safety ‘huddles’ that has reduced inpatients falls by 60 per cent
- achieving a 50 per cent increase in patients returning to mental health wards on time
- producing guidance that improves the communication of information on acute kidney injury between healthcare teams when a patient is discharged
- reducing inpatient medication errors
- PSCs have created clusters around specific themes and health issues to facilitate learning and adoption of innovation. The current priority areas include deterioration and sepsis, safer discharge, acute kidney injury, medicines optimisation and mental health.
