Video
A short film produced by Health Education England to support healthcare professionals in training and staff at all levels to report and respond to concerns about patient safety.
Academic papers
An observational study from the USA which examined the impact of high-performance work practices on interventions to reduce central line associated bloodstream infections.
Inquiries and reports
Produced by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, this report includes a literature review on effective teamwork and communication in healthcare, a needs assessment of Canadian healthcare organisations, a review of teamwork and communication training programmes, and a consultation with national and international experts in teamwork and communication.
Video
An interview with Dr Kim Holt, Consultant Paediatrician who ‘blew the whistle’ on the Baby P case in Haringey. She also founded Patients First, which is a support group for whistle-blowers.
She discusses her experience and those of other health professionals who have been “whistle-blowers”.
She discusses the need to change the system so that clinical staff feel empowered to speak up.
Video
Dr Sinead Millwood, a junior doctor in England, talks through her innovative quality improvement project.
Junior doctors commonly make mistakes which may compromise patient safety. Despite the recent push by the NHS to encourage a “no blame” culture, mistakes are still viewed as shameful, embarrassing and demoralising events.
Dr Millwood taught sessions on "learning from mistakes" and discusses how she implemented her project to change attitudes about discussing such mistakes
Inquiries and reports
This report looks at past experience with NHS workforce planning and the challenges facing workforce planning in the future, in the light of changing health care needs and the need to deliver the future care models outlines in the NHS five year forward view.
The report focuses on three areas key to providing integrated care: mental health, primary care and community nursing.
Video
In this webinar, Abhishek Bhartia (Director of Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research), Saru Bhartia (Quality Improvement professional) and Rinku Sen Gupta Dhar (Consultant obstetrician) talk about their quality improvement journey in Delhi, India.
Other tools and resources
A presentation by David Dalton, Chief Executive of Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust about changing patient safety culture in an organisation.
Other tools and resources
This section of the King's Fund toolkit for improving safety in maternity services focuses on the role of teamworking. It includes short case studies of team training and development, and covers a set of tools that can be used to improve teamworking in maternity services.
Safety policy
This detailed and extensive guideline document Has been developed by the Irish National Clinical Effectiveness Committee. It provides an in-depth review of the evidence relating to clinical handover particularly in maternity services from both an Irish and international perspective.
