ihi annual report 2014 patient safety

What is the IHI Patient Safety Congress?

The IHI Patient Safety Congress, brings together people who are passionate about ensuring safe care equitably for all across the globe. This annual meeting is the must-attend event for those who continue to shape smarter, safer care for patients wherever it’s provided – from the hospital to outpatient settings to the home.

Why work at IHI?

Building skills: IHI offers a range of programs to teach key safety and improvement skills at every level — from students to executives. We work to embed safety into every system and setting within a patient’s care journey with the belief that patients and those who care for them can and should be free from harm.

What are we innovating in patient safety?

We are also innovating in areas of patient safety that have seen the least attention such as diagnostic error, primary care, and behavioral and mental health. IHI’s focus on patient safety includes:

What is the focus of patient safety?

Overview. Patient Safety – Making care continually safer by reducing harm and preventable mortality IHI focuses on innovations that create a system of safety across entire organizations. We help organizations move from silos of safety to systems of safety by enhancing reliability and resilience.

Who wrote the book Patient Safety?

Written by Lucian Leape, a pioneer of t​he patient safety movement, this book describes how patient safety became recognized as an important problem, the underlying science, and the efforts to implement changes.

What is culture of safety?

In a culture of safety, people are not merely encouraged to work toward change; they take action when it is needed.

Is patient safety possible without a workforce?

Health care leaders increasingly recognize that patient safety is not possible without a workforce that is physically and psychologically safe, joyful, and thriving. This article describes three actionable recommendations to improve workforce safety. View All.

What Attendees are Saying

"You get the opportunity to hear from those who have been successful in improving patient c​​are,​ specifically patient safety."

Call for Proposals

Highlight the work that you and your organization are doing to improve the safety of patients and those who provide care.

When was the report of Quality and Safety Clinical Governance Development Initiative published?

The Report of Quality and Safety Clinical Governance Development Initiative: Sharing Our Learning was published in May 2014. The report recommendations for health service providers, commissions and policy makers, were shared with each national director and are incorporated in the HSE National Service Plan for 2015.

What is the National Patient Safety Culture Survey?

The National Patient Safety Culture Survey was the first undertaken by the HSE to establish current views of staff on patient safety within their organisations. Following the pilot in 2012, further refinements were made, following which the survey was rolled out as a national project in 2013. In order to facilitate hospitals as much as possible, it was necessary to divide this national project up into five phases, which commenced in June 2013 and continued through to March 2014.

What was the progress made in 2014?

The progress made in 2014 is a reflection on the contribution from staff all across the service delivery system to the Quality and Patient Safety agenda. This contribution included chairing/membership of committees, workgroups, advisory groups; reviewing documents and processes and providing good feedback; partaking in pilots and evaluations; implementing new policies and work practices; providing training and support to colleagues; and sharing learning and good practice.

What is V4.0 in healthcare?

Work is continuing on consultation and revision of Standards and Recommended Practices for Healthcare Records Management (V4.0).

What is the HSE pressure ulcers to zero initiative?

The National Quality and Patient Safety Division, HSE in partnership with the National Quality Improvement Programme and the Regional Quality and Safety Team within the former North East Region undertook the first large scale quality improvement Collaborative in Ireland – Pressure Ulcers to Zero. The aim of the Collaborative was to reduce the incident of avoidable pressure ulcers across Dublin North East by 50% between February to September 2014. Twenty teams from across acute, residential and community services within DNE in this quality improvement initiative.

What is a culture of safety?

In a culture of safety, staff members are aware of safety issues and are free to report conditions that could lead to near misses or actual adverse events. This open exchange of information requires the management to have a non-punitive response philosophy that rewards reporting of safety issues and events and does not punish staff members involved ...

Why is nonpunitive reporting important?

Thus, the essential function of a reporting system is to use the results of data analysis and investigations to improve healthcare directly and help healthcare professionals to do safer work.

Is healthcare a complicated process?

However, healthcare is a complicated process, and it is not surprising that patient safety can be threatened. Fundamental flaws in the way health system are organized resulted in a majority of errors and the result of individual recklessness. To correct those deficiencies, a culture where reporting system and mistakes should be established.

What is the IHI?

Partnering with Austria-based Salzburg Global Seminar and working with healthcare leaders from across the world, IHI launched at the conference eight global principles for the measurement of patient safety. The principles are intended to act as a call to action.

Who is the director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety?

It’s always interesting how often we make contacts from the UK at international events! It was great to meet up with Dr John Boulton (Director of NHS Quality Improvement and Patient Safety/Director of Improvement Cymru at Public Health Wales) and we had an opportunity to discuss Wales’ ambition to deliver safer and more effective care. We discussed collaborating with him, his team and leaders in Wales, and how the knowledge and insight from A Blueprint For Action and the hub can contribute to this.