On International Women's Day 2026, we are celebrating the women who are driving innovation and shaping the future of patient safety research across our team. Their expertise, leadership, and lived experience are helping to transform how we understand risk, deliver...
We are delighted to spotlight one of our funded PhD students, Jessica McCann, who is working on a project identifying the effects of admission to critical care on medication-related risks in older patients (≥65 years of age).
Transitions in care are high-risk moments for patient safety; whether from hospital to home, mental health settings to community, or across specialties. In this episode, our research experts Dr Natasha Tyler, Dr Richard Keers, and Professor Tom Blakeman dive into why...
Plain Language Summary by Antony Chuter and Rachel ElliottPaper: Economic Evaluations of Medication Safety Interventions in Primary and Long-Term Care: A Systematic Review, published in PharmacoEconomics on 29 November 2025.What was the question?Medicines are very...
This year’s World Patient Safety Day, observed on 17 September (Wednesday), brings attention to the critical need to strengthen safety for children and newborns in healthcare. With the theme Safe care for every newborn and every child, the World Health Organization...
Prof Tony Avery OBE, research co-lead for the NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC Improving Medication Safety theme, has received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Assembly - the organisation's governing body. This is an outstanding recognition of...
This blog was written by Dr Richard BourneRichard is a Consultant Pharmacist – Critical Care at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and is an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer (Pharmacy) at The University of Manchester, where he is affiliated to the NIHR...
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.
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...
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