Safety alliance launched in Scotland
Improving patient safety in hospitals in Scotland is the aim of a new safety programme launched in Scotland last month.
The Scottish Patient Safety Alliance will focus on issues such as prescribing
errors and preventable infections. It will do this by identifying good
practice and then ensuring that standards of good practice are applied
consistently in all hospitals in Scotland.
Examples of processes the alliance will target include systems to ensure
patients receive the right medicine at the right time and in the right
dose, and monitoring systems to identify patients whose health is deteriorating
quickly.
The alliance’s five objectives are:
• To improve organisational and leadership culture on safety
• To reduce health care-associated infection
• To reduce adverse surgical incidents
• To reduce adverse drug events
• To improve critical care
outcomes
The alliance, led by NHS Tayside, builds on the Safer
Patients Initiative which has been piloted at several hospitals across the UK. |
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