Despite the efforts of healthcare staff, patients suffer harm every day in healthcare systems. It is our duty to learn from these patient safety incidents to improve patient care.
The Patient Safety Project aims to improve patient safety and facilitate learning and engagement opportunities.
This is done through:
Hosting and supporting a community of practice for professionals via an MS Teams channel
We collect data from participating hospices, with the aim to inform quality improvement activities. The data we collect comprises of three core patient safety metrics:
Falls
Pressure Ulcers
Medication Incidents
Please read our metric definitions if you aren't sure what is meant by any of the above terms.
Over 100 hospice inpatient units currently submit data to us. But we would like to even more hospices to take part.
Participating hospices receive their own data quarterly. This can be viewed in a time series chart, alongside the aggregated data for comparison.
Aggregated data is also presented at quarterly webinars.
Submit your data
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All data for the Patient Safety survey should be submitted via our Member Data Portal.
If you submitted Patient Safety data to us before January 2026, you should have received an email with a link to set up your Member Data Portal account. Please use this to access the portal and submit your data.
If you submit Patient Safety data and have not received an email with a link to set up your Member Data Portal account, please contact us.
Submission dates and reports
Please submit by the last day of the month after each quarter ends. For example, for quarter one (April, May, June), please submit your data by the last day of July.
Reports are generated and shared in the following months.
