Suzette Woodward, an international expert on patient safety advising PHE on its review of the screening incident guidance, sets out her thoughts on how learning from safety incidents could be strengthened.
PHE's plans for reviewing and improving the approach to incidents in the NHS screening programmes and preparing for the new NHS patient safety incident response framework.
Learning from incidents is important to help prevent future errors and reduce the risk of harm.
Find out more about our new e-learning module on managing safety incidents in NHS screening programmes.
Some important points of learning to be aware of from antenatal screening safety incidents.
...share ideas. This is only possible with good communication, which subsequently drives up and maintains quality improvements. It’s important to share and acknowledge the good work that is already taking...
Antenatal and newborn screening coordinator shares learning from a screening safety incident in the fetal anomaly screening programme.
...Improvement and NHS England so that our guidance continues to align with NHS guidance on serious incidents. If you work in an NHS screening programme and think there is a...
Hello, my name is Dr John Rodriguez and I am the Screening and Immunisation Lead for Kent and Medway. I’d like to tell you about the recently published national guidance on the management of patients not included on the screening register …