Quality and Patient Safety Strategy

We have recently developed our Quality and Safety strategy setting out how the Trust will achieve our seven safety ambitions and by embracing continuous quality improvement methodology to embed a culture of quality and safety improvement across the whole organisation. We are committed to the following ambitions: 

• Prevent and protect patients from avoidable harm – improving direct patient care so that no patient will suffer avoidable harm.  
• Patient engagement and co-production to promote quality improvement – ensuring that all patients who use our services have the opportunity to feedback, shape patient pathways and improve patient experience
• Infection prevention and control – reaching the irreducible minimum of preventable healthcare associated infections 
• Reduction in Hospital Standardised Mortality Rate (HSMR) and Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) – aiming to place the Trust back within the top 20% of non-specialist acute NHS Trusts 
• Provide delay free care – deliver care on time and within cost, meeting or exceeding all national standards in relation to safe, high quality care 
• Delivering outstanding Maternity services – providing a positive and safe experience delivered by an outstanding maternity team
• Provide a safe system and culture of care, thereby reducing avoidable harm – developing a culture of transparency, learning from safety incidents and using these to drive quality improvement 

The Trust will introduce the recommendations in the Patient Safety Incident 

Response Framework (PSIRF); this affects every aspect of patient care and is a common theme throughout all the Ambitions.