Applied Safety Intelligence - a Dialogue

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.

In the coming weeks we will begin piloting the new PSIMS capability with RLDatix customer organisations.

Policy chaos is a state of disorganisation and disarray, where policies are housed in a system with no folder structure and staff members have a challenging time finding policies and procedures

Clinicians and caregivers are facing unprecedented levels of extreme emotional stress. What we can learn from past traumatic events & how they can be applied to help safeguard mental wellbeing.