Joint SPCR-GM PSRC PhD Studentships
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...
My first keynote – as a Lived Experience Public Contributor | #PCIE
I’m a Public Contributor with Lived Experience and have been participating, involved and engaged with the award-winning Mutual Support for Mental Health in Research (MS4MH-R) group as part of the Centre for Mental Health and Safety in the University of Manchester,...
GM PSRC Team Meeting – July 2024
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...
NIHR GM PSRC researchers recognised for making a difference to society through research
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...
Research: NIHR GM PSRC is recruiting NHS professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds
Are you an NHS frontline healthcare professional from an ethnic minority background concerned about patient safety? We want to hear from you! As part of our Enhancing Cultures of Safety research theme, we are recruiting NHS frontline healthcare professionals from an...
#SafetyNet WEBINAR: Medicines safety and preventable harm: a health economics perspective | with Prof Rachel Elliott
You are invited to join us at the next SafetyNet seminar with Prof Rachel Elliott, taking place online on Wednesday 15 May at 12.30pm. To reserve your space, please click here. Topic: Medicines safety and preventable harm: a health economics perspective Speaker:...
Shared digital NHS prescribing record could avoid nearly 1 million annual drug errors
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...
Working arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges
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...
Antipsychotics for dementia linked to more harms than previously acknowledged
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...
Locums and permanent GPs equally safe, study reassures patients
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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