Patient safety campaign adopted by 70% of English trusts in first year

doi:10.1136/bmj.b2375

Published 11 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2375
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2375

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Patient safety campaign adopted by 70% of English trusts in first year

Zosia Kmietowicz

¹ London

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Seven out of 10 trusts in England have signed up to the voluntaryPatient Safety First campaign, a year after its launch.

The campaign, which supports trusts in implementing changesin practices that are proved to reduce the level of avoidableharm and improve patient safety, has had the biggest uptakeamong acute trusts. Altogether 154 out of 168 (92%) acute trustsin England have officially signed up to the campaign.

However, fewer other trusts have joined. Although nearly twothirds (86/148) of primary care trusts in England have signedup to the campaign, only about half (39/76) of mental healthtrusts and ambulance trusts (5/11) have.

Patient Safety First promotes five main interventions: gettingtrust boards to show that patient safety is their highest priority;reducing in-hospital cardiac arrest and mortality through earlierrecognition and treatment of deteriorating patients; improvingcritical care through the application of care bundles; preventing. . . [Full text of this article]

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