Sign up to Safety

Creating a patient safety movement

We crave meaning and purpose in life and one way to find it is to connect to a cause larger than

ourselves

Some of the greatest successes in the world have come from social

movements

Our shared cause

A unified English Patient Safety Programme

5 pledges

1 personal

safety improvement

plan

1 safety lead

and 1 campaign volunteer

Align with AHSN and

Patient Safety Collaborative Programme

SIGN UP

What does participation mean for an organisation?

110 participants so far…

5

pledges

1

personal safety

improvement plan

Join the team and become a volunteer

Promote the

campaign

SIGN UP

What does sign up mean for an individual?

For example: • Organisations could commit to ensuring all staff will learn

the knowledge and skills to prevent avoidable harm

• Individuals could make a personal pledge and create a personal improvement plan

Campaign Organisers

Local campaigners

NHS CareMakers

Safety Fellows

Safety Hubbies

Participant Safety Leads

System Safety Leads

AHSNs and Patient Safety Collaboratives

= Regional hub organiser

Organising for impact via Sign up to Safety

Roles

Safety Lead One or more individuals in your organisation who

will lead on the sign up to safety improvement work

Local Campaigners One or more individuals in your

organisation who will lead on the sign up to safety campaign work

Volunteers As many people who want to be volunteers to support the campaign across

England

Motivation

Embracing social media and joining forces

@signuptosafety

1,393 followers

#signuptosafety #su2s

Patient Partnership in Patient Safety

• Safety briefings

• Checklists for patients

• Simple and helpful leaflets

• Videos

• Top tips

Strategy and

Advisory group

•To coordinate and align across the patient safety programme – 1st meeting 15 October 2014, Chair Sir David Dalton

Strategy and Advisory group

• To coordinate and align across the patient safety programme – 1st meeting 15 October 2014, Chair Sir David Dalton

• To support coordination of patient safety initiatives and help align activity related to patient safety to ensure a consistent approach across the NHS in England

• To facilitate partnership working in relation to patient safety between key stakeholders

• To ensure the individual stakeholders and initiatives add value to the whole

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Launch call for experts to support improvement Nov 14

Increased participation from 12 to 60 (Wave 2) by end Dec 14

Campaign strategy including measurement and evaluation completed and launched by end Dec 14

Launch call for volunteers Jan 15

Increased participation from 60 to 120 (Wave 3) by June 2015

Second Year; Anniversary announcement 24 June 15

Over the last decade concerted efforts have been made to improve the safety of patient care but to date the NHS in

England has not made as much improvement as was hoped

It is critical therefore that over the next 3 – 6 years and beyond we do our very

best to put this right

The good news is that there are safety experts who are gaining a much better understanding of

how to make care safer

There is an emerging implementation and improvement science which will

help us all make a difference

We can all individually make a difference one by one but collectively we can make a bigger

difference by all working together to help the NHS be the safest healthcare system in the

world