05 July 2017
Emergency Department safety checklist wins national patient safety award
The ED safety checklist helps to ensure
patient-safety based actions are completed. The aim is to prevent
failure to recognise deterioration.
The checklist was piloted at our Trust in 2014 with
demonstrable success in improvements in patient safety.
With the support of the West of England AHSN, this
tool has been adopted by all seven EDs in the region, spanning six
trusts and the ambulance service, in order to address the shared
challenge of ensuring patient safety during periods of
crowding.
We are so proud that the checklist won the HSJ
Patient Safety Award for 'Best Patient Safety Initiative in
A&E'.
This project was inspected during our recent CQC visit. In their
findings they wrote: "The SHINE patient safety assessment tool had
driven significant improvements and clearly demonstrated improved
outcomes [...] Since its introduction there had been no incidents
of a deteriorating patient not being identified and then
managed.
Read more about the award win
here or find out more about the ED safety checklist
below.
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