Patient Safety Partner

3 weeks ago


Crewe, United Kingdom Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Patient Safety Partners are patients, carers, family members or other lay people who are recruited to work in partnership with staff to influence and improve the governance and leadership of safety within an NHS organisation.

This is an exciting new role, supported by NHS England to provide support and advice to the Trust, playing a key role in the development of a patient safety culture, safety systems and improvement activity.

PSPs are patients, carers, family members or other lay people who are recruited to work in partnership with staff to influence and improve the governance and leadership of safety within an NHS organisation. As such, they perform a very different function from that of the traditional NHS volunteer and their roles may include:

- membership of safety and quality committees whose responsibilities include the review and analysis of safety data
- involvement in patient safety improvement projects
- working with organisation boards to consider how to improve safety
- involvement in staff patient safety training
- participation in investigation oversight groups

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff / volunteers and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

A patient safety partner (PSP) is actively involved in the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation. This may include various activities in safety governance such as;
- Becoming members of the safety and quality committee, whose responsibilities include the review and analysis of safety data.
- Considering how safety issues should be addressed.
- Providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and change follows.
- Supporting the development and implementation of relevant strategies and policies.
- Being Involved in patient safety improvement projects.
- Working with the Board to consider how to improve safety.
- Being involved in staff patient safety training.
- Participating in investigation oversight groups.
- Supporting effective safety governance at all levels in the organisation.

PSPs should ensure that any committee/group of which they are a member considers and prioritises the service user, patient, carer and family perspective and champions a diversity of views.



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