AQuA Launches Interactive Guide to Support Patient Safety

The Advancing Quality Alliance (AQuA) is pleased to announce the joint launch of a new interactive guide to support improvements in patient care and safety, alongside our partners the UK Improvement Alliance (UKIA), Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Haelo and the Improvement Academy.

The guide, Better Questions, Safer Care, builds on our work for the Measuring and Monitoring of Safety Framework with The Health Foundation, and contains a range of useful resources to help health and care professionals to take a more holistic approach when looking at the safety of care.

Speaking on the announcement, Kayleigh Price, Safety & Mortality Improvement Lead, said:
“This is a fantastic resource to support colleagues across a range of clinical settings and organisations, to offer a new approach when looking at patient safety and how the framework can help support this.

“Over the past 18 months, we’ve worked closely with our partners to create this, and feel it offers a real abundance of learning and practical advice to support everyday improvements to patient safety.

“We’ve really enjoyed testing the guide across our networks, and we hope that colleagues will find it a valuable tool in their work and can come along to our upcoming events to find out more about it.”

Designed in collaboration with Ward Downham Improvement Design (WDID), the principles and learning within the guide have been tested extensively across localities across the UK, including in Greater Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Yorkshire and Scotland.

It also offers detailed case studies and practical templates spanning roles from Board to ward, and across Ambulance, Acute, Mental Health, and Primary Care settings.

Download the guide

Full information about the Measuring & Monitoring of Safety Framework is available via the website www.HowSafeIsOurCare.com.

As well as launching the guide, we’re also supporting a number opportunities to learn more about the Measuring & Monitoring of Safety Framework, including:

• A series of events in Edinburgh (14 September 2017), Birmingham (12 October 2017) and London (30 November 2017).
• Monthly video calls looking at a range of patient safety themes and topics

To find out more about these opportunities, please visit the Get Involved page of the website. You can also stay up to date on social media via the Twitter hashtag #THFSMP.

If you would like more information on any of these opportunities, please contact Kayleigh Price on 07717 866 379, or Kayleigh.Price@srft.nhs.uk.