The Patient Safety Project at Hospice UK aims to improve patient safety in hospices and accelerate the sharing of related learning and improvement work.
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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The Patient Safety data collection is now open for hospices to take part.
Please submit by the last day of the month after each quarter ends e.g. for quarter one which is April, May, June, please submit by last day of July. Reporting is then early August.
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Patient Safety Project - data submission form
Complete our submission form to send your inpatient safety data to our Patient Safety Project at Hospice UK.
