By Paul Garvey*Many nurses who leave the profession do so within the first three years of practice. The reasons for this are numerous and complex, but what is known is that all staff in the NHS are facing high workloads. A study I am planning to commence in the new...
On 26 September 2024, NHS England published its Primary care patient safety strategy, which describes the national and local commitments to improve patient safety in primary care. The document builds on cutting-edge research, including a 2020 study conducted by our...
We’re delighted to announce that NHS Greater Manchester, Health Innovation Manchester, and NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration has won the Improving Medicines Safety Award for ‘Scaling a Local Safety Medication Dashboard (SMASH) Programme to Benefit the 2.8 Million Population of Greater Manchester’ at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards – an esteemed awards programme, designed to encourage and drive improvements in culture and quality across the NHS.
NIHR SPCR (School for Primary Care Research) and NIHR GM PSRC (Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration) are advertising four PhD Studentships: Reducing the provision of low-value interventions that expose patients to unnecessary risk of harm, both...
On July 15, 2024, our team gathered for a productive and insightful team meeting. It was a day packed with important updates, collaborative discussions, and strategic planning aimed at enhancing our research impact and fostering a more inclusive work environment. We...
A team from the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration has received a ‘Highly Commended Award for Outstanding Benefit to Society through Research’ for their work 'Improving care for people who have self-harmed: Translating evidence into practice...
Avoiding 16,000 patient harms and saving 20+ lives and £millions for services in England Implementing a single shared digital prescribing record across the NHS in England could avoid nearly 1 million drug errors every year, stopping up to 16,000 fewer patients from...
NHS leaders need to rethink how these professionals are engaged, supported, and usedWorking arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges for the NHS in England, although there are opportunities to be grasped too, finds...
Antipsychotic use in people with dementia is associated with higher risks of a wide range of serious health outcomes compared with non-use, according to a new study from a collaboration across the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee.Higher...
There is no evidence that locum doctors are less clinically competent or practice less safely than permanent doctors, a study in England led by University of Manchester researchers has shown. Some differences in practice and performance of locum and permanent GPs were...
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