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1690168

	registered interest
	date	19/02/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comments by the Royal College of Nursing that the fall in each of the past three years in applications to university nursing courses is a direct threat to patient safety, and what actions they are taking to improve patient safety in England.
	tabling member printed	Lord Allen of Kensington
	uin	HL2513
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>The number of applicants continues to outstrip the places on offer. Nursing training places are competitive, and lead to an attractive and important career in the National Health Service.</p><p>Record numbers of nurses are now working in the NHS, and the first ever NHS Long Term Workforce Plan, backed by over £2.4 billion of funding, will add 24,000 more nurse and midwifery training places by 2031.</p><p>Over the last decade, the Government and system partners have delivered major initiatives to advance patient safety in the NHS. This includes implementing the first NHS Patient Safety Strategy, establishing the independent Health Services Safety Investigations Body to address the most serious patient safety incidents, and appointing the first Patient Safety Commissioner to champion the patient voice in relation to the safety of medicines and medical devices.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 29/02/2024 16:15:39 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	4304 label Biography information for Lord Allen of Kensington

1715080

	registered interest
	date	30/04/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask His Majesty's Government whether the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework has been fully implemented throughout the NHS to support learning and compassionate responses to families following any incidents.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL4221
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/05/2024 answer text <p>Compliance with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) is now a contractual requirement for all services commissioned under the NHS Standard Contract. Implementing the PSIRF is an ongoing process and organisations’ approach to patient safety incident response can and should evolve over time. Work is also underway to explore implementation of the PSIRF in wider services within the National Health Service, such as primary care.</p> answering member printed Lord Markham question first answered 08/05/2024 14:50:39 answering member 4948 label Biography information for Lord Markham
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

421242

	registered interest
	date	14/10/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what research is being undertaken to establish the impact of the safeguarding policy for patients on the behaviour of nurses in attending to the needs of patients.
	tabling member printed	Lord Mawson
	uin	HL2613
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/10/2015 answer text <p>No central research has been commissioned to assess the impact of safeguarding policies for patients on the behaviour of nurses in attending to the needs of patients. Research may have been commissioned at a local level; however, this data is not collected centrally.</p><br /><p>The Care Act 2014, which placed adult safeguarding on a statutory footing for the first time, made clear the responsibilities of agencies in relation to adult safeguarding with a greater focus on the prevention of abuse and neglect.</p><br /><p>The Department is clear in statutory guidance supporting the Care Act that workers across a wide range of organisations, and not just those in frontline health and social care roles, need to be vigilant on behalf of those unable to protect themselves.</p><br /><p>Commissioners and providers will have clear policies and procedures that set out the roles of nurses and all other staff in relation to safeguarding and the training and support that is required in order for them to fulfil those roles.</p><br /><p>The Department and NHS England’s Compassion in Practice nursing strategy was published in December 2012 and is based around six core values: Care, Compassion, Competence, Communication, Courage, and Commitment. The vision aims to embed these values, known as the 6C’s, in all nursing, midwifery and care-giving settings throughout the NHS and social care to improve care for patients. A copy of the strategy is attached and can be found at:</p><br /><p><a href="http://www.england.nhs.uk/nursingvision/" target="_blank">http://www.england.nhs.uk/nursingvision/</a></p> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 28/10/2015 12:21:43 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton attachment 1 file name compassion-in-practice.pdf title Compassion in Practice
	tabling member	3830 label Biography information for Lord Mawson

773000

	registered interest
	date	18/10/2017
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government when they expect to bring forward the Patient Safety Bill announced in the Queen's Speech in June.
	tabling member printed	Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
	uin	HL2201
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/10/2017 answer text <p>Patient safety has been a key priority for this Government and we have made huge strides to ensure patients have access to high quality healthcare.</p><p> </p><p>Following the Queen’s Speech in June, the Government committed to publishing a bill to establish a new independent body to investigate serious patient safety incidents in the National Health Service, with a focus on learning.</p><p> </p><p>The Health Service Safety Investigations Bill was laid in draft in Parliament on 14 September 2017 and will undergo a period of pre-legislative scrutiny. Following pre-legislative scrutiny, introduction of the Bill will depend on parliamentary time being available.</p> answering member printed Lord O'Shaughnessy question first answered 31/10/2017 15:05:55 answering member 4545 label Biography information for Lord O'Shaughnessy
	tabling member	2024 label Biography information for Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

1719862

	registered interest
	date	21/05/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that hospitals follow NICE guidelines on (a) suicide and (b) self-harm risk assessment (i) tools and (ii) scales.
	tabling member constituency	Blaydon
	tabling member printed	Liz Twist
	uin	27544
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/05/2024 answer text <p>Improving risk management and safety planning for suicide and self-harm prevention is a priority in the Government’s suicide prevention strategy. The strategy highlights the importance of compliance with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) guidelines on risk assessment. NHS England is taking forward work in this area.</p><p>We would expect health professionals to have regard to guidelines from the NICE, which state that risk assessment tools should not be used to predict future suicide or repetition of self-harm.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 24/05/2024 08:26:14 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4618 label Biography information for Liz Twist

143393

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to promote the Sign up to Safety campaign; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Robert Neill
	uin	213871
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Sign up to Safety campaign was launched on 24 June 2014. Each organisation that has joined the campaign has committed to improving patient safety through the implementation of a Safety Improvement Plan. The Safety Improvement Plan builds on the pledges the organisation set out when joining. The pledges are expanded in more detail in the plan, which sets out what the organisation wants to achieve and by when. Each organisation is expected to demonstrate how they will measure the local impact of their aims over the next three years via a measurement section within their plans. They will then implement their aims over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Sign up to Safety campaign is being promoted by means of:</p><p> </p><p>- a national campaign website;</p><p> </p><p>- regional and national presentations at events across the country delivered by the Campaign Director, the Secretary of State and others;</p><p> </p><p>- Twitter with over 1,500 followers;</p><p> </p><p>- a blog by the Campaign Director;</p><p> </p><p>- an online seminar programme (webinars);</p><p> </p><p>- through partner organisations including NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Monitor, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Litigation Authority, Health Education England, and NHS Improving Quality;</p><p> </p><p>- mini poster campaigns, such as the Safe Care Costs Less, and individual events, such as the launch of the Patient Briefing Video; and</p><p> </p><p>- through participant websites and local events.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at the end of October 2014, a total number of 136 organisations have agreed to participate in the Sign up to Safety campaign. Each participant organisation is expected to set out how they will contribute to the campaign’s three year objective via their Safety Improvement Plan – they are expected to quantify the expected impact of their actions on a reduction of avoidable harm and saving lives. The measurement and evaluation of the impact at a regional and national level will be led by NHS England working with NHS Improving Quality as part of the integrated measurement strategy for both the campaign and the Patient Safety Collaborative programme. This will include the National Reporting and Learning System, harms via the Safety Thermometer and mortality rates, case studies of individual organisations and patient record reviews.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 213870 213872 question first answered 19/11/2014 15:47:48 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

143394

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Sign up to Safety campaign is on course to achieve its three-year objective to (a) reduce avoidable harm by 50 per cent and (b) save 6,000 lives.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Robert Neill
	uin	213872
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Sign up to Safety campaign was launched on 24 June 2014. Each organisation that has joined the campaign has committed to improving patient safety through the implementation of a Safety Improvement Plan. The Safety Improvement Plan builds on the pledges the organisation set out when joining. The pledges are expanded in more detail in the plan, which sets out what the organisation wants to achieve and by when. Each organisation is expected to demonstrate how they will measure the local impact of their aims over the next three years via a measurement section within their plans. They will then implement their aims over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Sign up to Safety campaign is being promoted by means of:</p><p> </p><p>- a national campaign website;</p><p> </p><p>- regional and national presentations at events across the country delivered by the Campaign Director, the Secretary of State and others;</p><p> </p><p>- Twitter with over 1,500 followers;</p><p> </p><p>- a blog by the Campaign Director;</p><p> </p><p>- an online seminar programme (webinars);</p><p> </p><p>- through partner organisations including NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Monitor, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Litigation Authority, Health Education England, and NHS Improving Quality;</p><p> </p><p>- mini poster campaigns, such as the Safe Care Costs Less, and individual events, such as the launch of the Patient Briefing Video; and</p><p> </p><p>- through participant websites and local events.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at the end of October 2014, a total number of 136 organisations have agreed to participate in the Sign up to Safety campaign. Each participant organisation is expected to set out how they will contribute to the campaign’s three year objective via their Safety Improvement Plan – they are expected to quantify the expected impact of their actions on a reduction of avoidable harm and saving lives. The measurement and evaluation of the impact at a regional and national level will be led by NHS England working with NHS Improving Quality as part of the integrated measurement strategy for both the campaign and the Patient Safety Collaborative programme. This will include the National Reporting and Learning System, harms via the Safety Thermometer and mortality rates, case studies of individual organisations and patient record reviews.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 213870 213871 question first answered 19/11/2014 15:47:48 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

143397

	registered interest
	date	07/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress organisations which have participated in the Sign up to Safety campaign have made on fulfilling the pledges in that campaign; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Bromley and Chislehurst
	tabling member printed	Robert Neill
	uin	213870
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Sign up to Safety campaign was launched on 24 June 2014. Each organisation that has joined the campaign has committed to improving patient safety through the implementation of a Safety Improvement Plan. The Safety Improvement Plan builds on the pledges the organisation set out when joining. The pledges are expanded in more detail in the plan, which sets out what the organisation wants to achieve and by when. Each organisation is expected to demonstrate how they will measure the local impact of their aims over the next three years via a measurement section within their plans. They will then implement their aims over the next three years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Sign up to Safety campaign is being promoted by means of:</p><p> </p><p>- a national campaign website;</p><p> </p><p>- regional and national presentations at events across the country delivered by the Campaign Director, the Secretary of State and others;</p><p> </p><p>- Twitter with over 1,500 followers;</p><p> </p><p>- a blog by the Campaign Director;</p><p> </p><p>- an online seminar programme (webinars);</p><p> </p><p>- through partner organisations including NHS England, Care Quality Commission, Monitor, NHS Trust Development Authority, NHS Litigation Authority, Health Education England, and NHS Improving Quality;</p><p> </p><p>- mini poster campaigns, such as the Safe Care Costs Less, and individual events, such as the launch of the Patient Briefing Video; and</p><p> </p><p>- through participant websites and local events.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As at the end of October 2014, a total number of 136 organisations have agreed to participate in the Sign up to Safety campaign. Each participant organisation is expected to set out how they will contribute to the campaign’s three year objective via their Safety Improvement Plan – they are expected to quantify the expected impact of their actions on a reduction of avoidable harm and saving lives. The measurement and evaluation of the impact at a regional and national level will be led by NHS England working with NHS Improving Quality as part of the integrated measurement strategy for both the campaign and the Patient Safety Collaborative programme. This will include the National Reporting and Learning System, harms via the Safety Thermometer and mortality rates, case studies of individual organisations and patient record reviews.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 213871 213872 question first answered 19/11/2014 15:47:48 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1601 label Biography information for Sir Robert Neill

164370

	registered interest
	date	24/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to increase the use of patient experience surveys in the NHS to inform patient safety initiatives; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Copeland
	tabling member printed	Mr Jamie Reed
	uin	215718
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/11/2014 answer text <p>Patient experience surveys are a valuable source of evidence and the results are used in a range of ways, including the assessment of National Health Service performance as well as in regulatory activities such as registration, monitoring ongoing compliance and reviews. The Care Quality Commission has developed a new Intelligent Monitoring tool to give inspectors a clear picture of the areas of care that need to be followed up within an NHS acute trust or a specialist NHS trust. The system is built on a set of indicators that look at a range of information including patient experience, staff experience and performance.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In addition to the patient experience surveys hospital boards and other providers and commissioners of services can also consider the results of the Friends and Family Test (FFT) to consider the implications for quality and safety. While not a traditional survey, the FFT provides near real-time feedback to identify both good and poor quality patient experience. A NHS England review of the FFT found that it is performing well as a service improvement tool, with 85% of trusts reporting that it is being used to improve patient experience, and 78% saying that FFT has increased the emphasis placed on patient experience in their trusts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 27/11/2014 17:09:16 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
	tabling member	1503 label Biography information for Mr Jamie Reed

228161

	registered interest
	date	18/03/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	Patients: Safety
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department's recent report, Culture change in the NHS, Cm 9009, whether he plans to place responsibility for patient safety alerts within (a) NHS England or (b) an arms-length organisation.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	228119
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2015 answer text <p>Healthcare providers are expected to implement all the actions contained in a patient safety alert that are relevant to them and ensure that all relevant parts of their organisation and staff are aware of the information and/or the required changes. Providers should be scrutinising the implementation of their alerts and satisfying themselves that the alerts are complete by the designated deadline.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>NHS England publishes monthly data about any trusts who have failed to declare compliance with stage one, two, or three of the National Patient Safety Alerting System’s (NaPSAS) alerts by their set due date. Provider compliance should also be an integral part of the commissioners’ responsibilities for improving quality.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>As part of its inspections, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) looks at how providers respond to patient safety alerts as evidence of how effectively they manage and address safety concerns, and how they use this as learning to improve their safety systems and processes. CQC is continuing to develop and embed its approach to the use of data and intelligence across all the sectors it regulates as an integral part of its new approach to inspections, and has given greater prominence to safety alerts in its revised surveillance model. CQC’s Intelligent Monitoring system for the Acute Sector includes a composite indicator around completion of safety alerts and CQC is currently considering whether this can be implemented for the other sectors it regulates. This contributes to providers’ overall risk scores, which inform both the scheduling and prioritisation of inspections and the identification of focus areas for inspections.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Monitor is responsible for ensuring NHS foundation trusts are well-led so that they can provide quality care on a sustainable basis and would expect to be alerted by their providers of anything that might have a bearing on compliance with their licence including where there are significant issues regarding compliance with patient safety alerts. The NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA), as part of its oversight and escalation process, uses quality surveillance monitoring which it reviews on a monthly basis and which it uses to hold trusts to account for the timely compliance with alerts. This is undertaken via the TDA’s regular integrated delivery meetings with the trusts.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Government has agreed to consider with relevant organisations the options for transferring NHS England’s responsibilities for safety to a single national body and this will include responsibility for patent safety alerts. No decision has yet been taken about the specific functions to be transferred and until such time, NHS England will continue to be responsible for these functions.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter grouped question UIN 228067 228068 question first answered 23/03/2015 17:55:34 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne