NHS England Workforce, Training and Education North East and North Cumbria The Faculty of Patient Safety – Proud Finalists of the 2024 HSJ PATIENT SAFETY AWARDS
Back in June 2024 the NHS England Workforce, Training and Education North East and North Cumbria Faculty Of Patient Safety was shortlisted for the Patient Safety Education and Training Award at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards which recognises safety, culture and positive experience in patient care, celebrating its worthy finalists on a national scale. Following the thorough judging process, the team was included in the 206 organisations, projects and individuals that made the final shortlist amid 415 entries logged for the 2024 awards programme. The team attended the awards ceremony on the 16th September and proudly represented our region at this prestigious event.
The HSJ Patient Safety Awards acknowledges the hard-working teams and individuals across the UK who are continually striving to deliver improved patient care.
The Faculty of Patient Safety (FPS) is a multi-professional initiative within NHS England Education, Training and Workforce in North East and North Cumbria. The faculty was established in 2016 with a patient safety, simulation and human factors workstream. In January 2022, the faculty was re-launched with partnership working with stakeholders across the North East and North Cumbria healthcare system with a focus on delivery of the patient safety education for the workforce in line with the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. The Faculty workstreams include patient safety, simulation, human factors, delirium, technology enhanced learning, learning from deaths and the innovative MELISSA service (Mobile Educational Learning Improving Simulation Safety Activities). The aim of the Faculty is to respond to regional intelligence from its stakeholders, population data sources, regional mortality groups, patient safety incidents, medical examiner reports and utilise this information to close a loop to develop regionwide learning in a way which has not yet been done elsewhere. The workstreams of the Faculty target health inequalities and population need that are specific to the North East of England in response to real time data intelligence. This allows our initiatives to be responsive to the local population health. More information can be found on our website.
Dr Katherine Williamson, Associate Dean & Chair of Faculty of Patient Safety, NHS England Education, Workforce and Training North East and North Cumbria:
"I am extremely proud of all the members of the Faculty of Patient Safety for being the finalists at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Award. Although we did not take the trophy back home, we are grateful for the opportunity to share the excellent work of the Faculty at the national level. The focus of the Faculty will remain on supporting some fantastic regional initiatives with many more on the horizon.”
The Awards were a highlight of the HSJ’s annual 2-day Patient Safety Congress, where delegates working at the forefront of safety, quality and clinical excellence come together to join in on open and honest discussions about the current reality of safety. The full list of winners of the 2024 HSJ Patient Safety Awards can be found at Winners 2024 | HSJ Patient Safety Awards (patientsafetycongress.co.uk)
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