Patient Safety
The scope of PSIRF and our vision
There are many ways to respond to an incident. This document covers responses conducted solely for the purpose of systems- based learning and improvement.
There is no remit within this Plan or PSIRF to apportion blame or determine liability, preventability or cause of death in a response conducted for the purpose of learning and improvement. This plan augments and reinforces existing guidance and best practice in relation to ‘Just Culture’ and professional accountability.
Our vision: “Helping local people live longer, healthier lives” supported by our ‘ICARE’ values: (Innovation, Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence), along with our strategic aims:
- Deliver outstanding safe, compassionate care in partnership with patients
- Empower, support and develop an engaged staff community
- Integrate care with partners and promote health and wellbeing
- Transform and deliver innovative, financially sustainable services
will sit at the heart of our implementation and delivery of this PSIRP.
PSIRF Policy
The PSIRF Policy sets out the Trusts approach to learning and improving from patient safety incidents under the new PSIRF national guidance (NHSE 2022), which replaces the Serious Incident Framework. This guidance requires providers to implement new systems and processes to ensure there is a greater focus on learning and improving, compassionate engagement with staff and patients effected by incidents. better use of data to identify priority improvement areas and using human factors and systems thinking methodologies to investigate and make improvements.
This policy sets out the key requirements of the PSIRF and the Trusts commitment to its implementation. It is a statutory requirement under the implementation guidance. A PSIRF Plan will sit alongside this policy providing more detail of the operational implementation of the PSIRF.