North West Coast Patient Safety Collaborative

Presented by:

Aly HulmeAssociate Director

Plan

• NWC AHSN – A brief overview • North West Coast PSC – purpose and agreed

functions• Examples of progress to date • Developments for 2015/16

Aims and objectives of AHSNs• To spread innovation at pace and scale across

NHS• To promote and integrate the strengths of higher

education, the NHS, industry, third sector• To improve health of individuals and

communities• To focus on the needs of patients and local

populations• To speed up adoption of innovation into

healthcare• To build a culture of partnership and

collaboration• To create wealth

Representative Board (40 members)• Provider trusts• Commissioners – CCGs and NHS England• Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs)• Public Health England• Health Education England and LWEG• Universities• Clinical Research Network• ABPI and ABHI• Healthwatch and Self-Management UK• Research hubs• North West Coast Collaboration for Applied Health Research

(CLAHRC)

Patient Safety Collaborative• Part of a national programme - established

and supported by the 15 AHSNs• System-wide, locally owned and led,

improvement programmes • Aligns with and other national programmes

e.g Sign Up to Safety and uses international learning

• A partnership – built on the existing strengths of a number of partners

Overarching Principles• Local engagement - structured quality improvement

initiatives leading to transformational change• Continual improvement in system-wide capability in

quality and safety • Local systematic spread of improved outcomes

across health and social care• Networking between the AHSNs, partner

organisations and stakeholders to ensure the optimal spread of good practice

National Safety Priorities

Other Key Features• Two overarching themes

– leadership for culture change– measurement for improvement

• Focus mainly on prevention of harm but also on lessons learned from incidents to prevent re-occurrence

• Use of innovative, evidence-based intervention• Working in partnership with NHS England and

NHS IQ • There is no blueprint – we create a regional

approach

Our Core Principles• ‘Safety in everything’ culture – staff at every level and

in every role have something to contribute to safety• All sectors represented e.g. mental health, learning

disability, community/primary care; care homes and social care organisations

• Build on and improve what already exists, provided it is fit for purpose, and has demonstrated that it can add value

• Promote digitally enhanced/enabled systems to aid data collection and analysis

• Multi – professional approach

Our Agreed Clinical Safety Priorities

• Medicines Optimisation• Sepsis• Transition from paediatric to adult

care• Hydration- including Acute Kidney

Injury

Our Six Priorities for Action

1. Board level development in safety

2. Safety training and development for staff working at patient care level

3. Developing safety champions or leads in each organisation

4. Setting up learning networks around safety improvement themes

5. Technology reviews to identify solutions

to safety issues

Progress • Safety culture and Leadership: Developed patient safety network and safety

champions in each organisation Developing a PPI strategy in conjunction with all AHSN

programmes– patients and public as leaders • Capability building: Delivered on programmes to develop capability in

Human Factors, Culture & Measurement • Measurement for improvement : Developed a NWC patient safety measurement strategy

and dashboard (draft) Save the date 9 June 2015 “Measuring patient safety

workshop” (Liner Hotel)

Progress

• Review of evidence & technology: Completed a Pressure Ulcer technical review• Sign up to Safety Campaign : 23 organisations have signed up to safety across

the NWC A NWC Su2S collaborative is being formed • Clinical Safety Priorities : Established clinical advisory groups for each of our

four areas ( to raise capability, develop an E Learning package and to advise the PSC)

Progress

• Medicines Optimisation : Developed a robust framework for the

identification, evaluation and adoption of innovation to deliver significant improvements

• Hydration : Improving fluid management through our

Hydrate for Health programme working in partnership with a SME and Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS FT

Participated in the Nutrition and Hydration Week 2015

Progress • Sepsis programme: leading on behalf of the 14

AHSN PSCs• Working collaborative with NHS England &

AHSNs to agree terms of reference and deliverables including working with local existing sepsis collaboratives

A member of the national educational resource panel chaired by CEO UK Sepsis Trust

NWC PSC Sepsis clinical advisory group are developing an E learning package for the care home sector(early detection and management reducing harms and number of hospital admissions)

Developments• The Q Initiative (formerly 5000 safety fellows ) Each AHSN PSC are recruiting an initial cohort of 10

participants– the founding cohort - focus on helping to design and test the initiative

•  PSC strategic priorities for 2015/16 Continue to develop programmes of work around our clinical

safety priorities Continue to develop safety leadership capability Continue to develop safety and learning networks Clinical safety in care homes Sign up to safety campaign Staff health and wellbeing Working with the 14 AHSN PSCs develop and agree the Sepsis

programme of work

If you would like to work with us and make a difference

to the lives of millions of local people, please contact:

Aly HulmeAssociate Director Patient Safety Collaborative

E: Aly.hulme@nwcahsn.nhs.ukT:01772 520273

M:07931177052

info@nwcahsn.nhs.uk @nwcahsn

www.nwcahsn.nhs.uk