Scaling up Patient Safety Huddles
Patient Safety Huddles:
A Complex Intervention for Frontline Ward Teams
Aims:
1. Implement Patient Safety Huddles in 129 hospital wards across
four acute hospitals, in three NHS Trusts
2. Deliver demonstrable improvements in ward-level patient
safety culture
3. Deliver a significant reduction in patient harm
4. Generate and disseminate learning about the implementation
of safety huddles that is valuable regionally and nationally
across the NHS
Patient Safety Huddles:
Key Characteristics
• Focused meeting about one or more agreed patient harm/s
• Informed by QI tools and visual feedback (harm measurement,
PDSAs)
• Senior clinical leadership
• Agreed actions - set of team/individual actions (aimed at
reducing risk of patient harm)
• Daily (Monday - Friday as minimum)
• Brief (5-15 minutes)
• Multidisciplinary frontline team
• Predictable time and venue (appropriate to team and context)
The Safety Huddle …ignites a spirit of learning
Making measurement visible
Addressing Teamwork+Safety Culture
Celebrating success
“We are achieving results now, that none of us thought were possible 12 months ago”
Consultant Medicine for Older People, LTHT
Logic Model: Falls example
Evidence of impact:
Scaling up Patient Safety Huddles
• How do we scale up successful improvements across
the whole organisation?
– Implementation plan
• What are the barriers and enablers to
implementation?
• What is the impact on safety culture and harm?
‘’to become, more than ever before, a system devoted to continual learning and
improvement of patient care, top to bottom and end to end.’’ Don Berwick 2013
At a glance…
Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS
Trust (lead partner)
St James University Hospital, Leeds
York Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Barnsley Hospital NHS Trust
Scarborough Hospital
Barnsley Hospital
Project Lead: Helen Noble
Project Lead: Wayne Robson
Head of Patient Safety
Patient Safety & Quality Lead
[email protected]
Leeds General Infirmary (LGI)
Project Lead: Ali Cracknell
Consultant Geriatrician
[email protected]
[email protected]
Enquiries
Project enquiries to Angela Green, Project Manager, [email protected]
Evaluation enquiries to Dr Eileen McDonach, [email protected]