We asked the healthcare community the single biggest thing to positively impact patient safety, with over half citing a psychologically safe workplace culture. But, what else did we learn?

RLDatix convened a panel of experts to highlight learnings that could help integrated care systems overcome the workforce challenges they face while maintaining a focus on patient safety.

A comprehensive systematic review of physician burnout in particular has been published in the British Medical Journal this month, bringing together 170 separate studies of the topic.

Dr Darren Kilroy gives his reflections on the BMJ International Forum in Gothenburg, where he presented a session focused on ‘Rethinking Governance, Risk and Compliance.

Discover how Coventry & Rugby are going to be using PolicyStat to build best practice policies and procedures.

Discover how an RLDatix training course can optimise your system, align to organisational goals and implement improvements.

How can patient safety and risk management systems help support the new Integrated Care System in England?

Healthcare organisations across the UK are using PolicyStat to transform their policies and procedures, to improve performance and compliance and ensure safer care.

West Hertfordshire moved to DCIQ to make sure the Trust is aligned with the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, to streamline processes and drive its safety goals.

Healthcare organisations can utilise QR codes with RLDatix cloud software. Staff can directly access incident reporting forms & internal policies through mobile devices by simply scanning a device.

The CQC recently launched its strategy for 2021 and beyond where the importance of safety has been significantly upgraded. The new strategy builds on experience and learnings from the past five years.

The DCIQ Safeguarding module keeps all information about safeguarding concerns and referrals separate from other data, helping to protect sensitive information and patient safety.

NHS Wales have been shortlisted for two awards at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards this year, for the Once for Wales Concerns Management System.

Staff burnout and attrition are major challenges in the healthcare industry and tackling them from the outset is critical to attracting and retaining key workers.

In this latest blog, we look at how positive reporting of good practice and success can help support health systems and organisations in their journey to become highly reliable.

Using data more effectively and applying the experiences of high reliability organisations can improve efficiency and reduce costs, and also have a dramatic impact on patient safety.

In this series RLDatix and Patient Safety Learning will set out practical applications of high-reliability principles in healthcare, considering how they fit within the context of risk management.