Safety Tools and Solutions

Support guides to help navigate involvement in Patient Safety Incident Investigations

Using  an independent research programme and a co-design process involving a community of stakeholders including patients and their families, patient safety managers, people who investigate, healthcare staff, legal representatives, and policy makers, we developed guides for:

  • Patients and Families involved in a Serious Incident Investigation
  • Engagement Leads carrying out these investigations for NHS Trusts

For further information about the Learn Together Programme and to download the guides please click here.

Resources to support NHS redeployment

With funding from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) we have developed  two resources:

  1. National recommendations for the management of NHS nurse redeployment and crisis workforce recovery: A guide for acute NHS Trusts
  2. A best practice guide to support those tasked with implementing nurse redeployment

You can find more information and download the resources  here

Patient Safety Wellness Questionnaire - to support implementation of Martha's Rule

Since 2017, the YQSR team have been undertaking research investigating patient and family involvement in detecting and escalating deterioration in hospital, culminating in the publications listed below.

Based on this work, the team have developed and evaluated a simple patient wellness questionnaire that allows patients or their relatives to provide information about their condition as a routine part of their care. Here we provide guidance on how to implement this as part of Martha’s rule.

You can download the questionnaire here.

A visual story of incivility in hospitals

Within hospitals, incivility can silently erode individual well-being, how the team and hospital works, as well as how patients are taken care of. Evidence shows racially minoritised hospital workers are treated unfairly through bullying and discrimination, however the evidence of incivility is not well understood.

We developed a comic story to shed light on these behaviours and their effects that people might not always notice, and to make everyone think about how their own actions can make things better for everyone at work.

You can download the story here.

A toolkit to support older people manage their medicines at home

We developed a set of resources called “I Manage My Meds” to support people aged 65+ taking five or more medicines to help manage their medicines at home.

You can find out more here.

Six Steps to De-implementation: A Toolkit for Leaders

We produced an accessible, practical guide for clinical leaders to facilitate the identification and de-implementation of low value care which is available to download here.

Care home resources to support patients having a structured medication review

We developed a set of resources to support care home residents and staff to use when reviewing medicines.

You can find out more here.

Step by step guide for culturally adaptation of Healthcare Interventions

We have produced a step-by-step guide which provides practical direction on how to plan, implement, document, and refine cultural adaptations across a healthcare intervention.

You can find out more here.

Co-designed Principles for Respiratory Care Training: Improving Safety in the Home

These co-designed, research evidence-based principles were informed by research evidence and the experiences of patients, unpaid carers, paid carers and respiratory professionals. They provide a practical framework for improving respiratory care training and supporting safer, equitable and person-centred care in the home. 

You can download the principles here.

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