Key Activities
Some of the key Patient Safety Multi-disciplinary Group - and NES - contributions to Patient Safety.
NES is committed to developing a coordinated educational strategy that will support Patient Safety initiatives across all components of the Health Service.
These documents give information about the various NES activities and partnership work which are contributing to improving Patient Safety.
"NHS Education for Scotland (NES), contributing to the
international effort to improve patient safety"(April 2010) [PDF]
- NES continues to support the national and
international drive towards improvements in patient safety. Many
components of the current NES strategic work plan contribute to
improved patient outcomes in general, and Scottish Patient Safety
Programme (SPSP) target outcomes specifically - this leaflet
details these contributions.
"NHS Education for
Scotland (NES), contributing to the international effort to improve
patient safety" (2010) [PDF]
- This is a one-page poster which summarises some key aspects
of NES's partnership aproach to Patient Safety, along with some
example outcomes and results.
A Review of NES Funding for Multi-Disciplinary
Educational Research, 2005 - 2008 (November 2008)
[PDF]
This review contains a significant section on the work of
the NES Patient Safety Educational Research Programme (pp.
8-23), and its 12 research studies, all of which come under
these topics:
- Identification of the educational needs arising from patient
safety incidents relating to the use of medicines
- Investigation into the causes of error in prescribing and
dispensing medication
- Barriers and facilitators to implement evidence- based
practice on decontamination in general dental practice
- Feedback on performance in applying quality improvement
methods (significant event analysis and criterion based
audit)
- Exploration of the barriers and facilitators to clinical
audit effectiveness in NHS Scotland organisations
- Exploration of the impact of the new foundation programme
on postgraduate medical training
- Instrument development for measuring, benchmarking and
improving safety climate perceptions in primary care teams
- Collective learning from error and adverse events in
primary care.
