Road trip around Wessex to celebrate World Patient Safety Day 2019

Dressed in blue tutus, wigs and feather boas, a few of the Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) team toured Wessex, awarding prizes to teams that have been nominated by their organisational patient safety leads in celebration of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) World Patient Safety Day on Tuesday, 17 September.

The PSC team headed out from Southampton on their road trip, sharing photos of their visits throughout the day on social media.

The worthy winners were:

• Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Christine Smith, Dr Yazmin Faiza, Nicky Boardman & Dr Mary Pedley - Maternal & Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative
  
  
• Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, The Infection Prevention & Control Team - Reducing patient harm as a result of excellent Infection Prevention methodologies
  
  
• NHS England and Improvement, Jane Davies & Liz Hall - Jointly developing a module for primary care intelligence
  
  
• Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Patient Safety Team - A new Patient Safety team focusing on fall prevention, ‘Legs Matter’ campaign, plus manual handling and tissue viability
  
  
• Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Christine Dodd - Changed practice across the Trust with relation to the use of many high risk medications
  
  
• Solent NHS Trust, Emma Ives, Helen Rigden & Hong zhen Wang - In recognition of their work using a unique CRASH tool & insulin admin caseload review
  
  
• University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Centre Block Theatre team - Developing an action card for swab county discrepancy

Tracy Broom, Associate Director for Patient Safety Collaborative, said: “We’re so pleased to be able to mark the day by undertaking a road trip around the Wessex region to raise awareness of and celebrate local patient safety work.”

"The PSC team wanted to recognise the unsung heroes who quietly and conscientiously go above and beyond to improve patients’ well-being by awarding prizes to teams that have been nominated by their patient safety leads.”

 Southampton Guildhall and clock tower was also being lit in orange to mark the day.

To find out more about the World Patient Safety Day, go here.