Safety Quality and Standards
Circulars
Departmental circulars on Safety, Quality and Standards issues are contained on this page
- Technical patient safety solutions for ventilator associated pneumonia in adults
- National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness: Lessons for Mental Health Care in Scotland
- National Patient Safety Agency : Safety Alert 20: Promoting safer use of injectable medicines
- National Patient Safety Agency : Safety Alert 19: Promoting safer measurement and administration of liquid medicines via oral and other enteral routes
- National Patient Safety Agency : Safety Alert 18: Actions that make anticoagulant therapy safer
- National Patient Safety Agency Rapid Response Report 5: Reducing Dosing Errors with Opioid Medicines
- National Patient Safety Agency: Rapid Response Report 3: Risks of Chest Drain Insertion
- National Patient Safety Agency: Rapid Response Report 3: Risks with Intravenous Heparin Flush Solutions
- Self Harming Behaviour and Interface with Maternity Services - Learning Lessons
- National Patient Safety Agency: Risks of Incorrect Dosing of Oral Anticancer Medicines
- National Patient Safety Agency: Rapid Response Report 3: Emergency Support in Surgical Units: Dealing with Haemorrhage
- National Patient Safety Agency: Safety in Doses; Medication Safety Incidents in the NHS
- Recognising and Managing A Severe Allergy (i.e. Anaphylaxis) in Children and Young People: Providing Information, Advice and Follow-up Services to Patient, Family and Friends.
- National Patient Safety Agency: Safer Practice Notice 24: Standardising Wristbands Improves Patient Safety
- Policy for the Safe Use of Oral Methotrexate in Secondary Care
- National Patient Safety Agency: Safer Care for the Acutely Ill Patient: Learning from Serious Incidents (PSO5) and Recognising and Responding Appropriately to Early Signs of Deterioration in Hospitalised Patients
- Generic Medical Record-Keeping Standards
- Fire Hazard with Paraffin Based Skin Products on Dressing and Clothing
- Regional Audit of Consent Practices in the Examination, Treatment or Care of Patients
- HSC Regional Template and Guidance for Incident Review Reports
- National Patient Safety Agency: Safer Practice Notice 16: Early identification of failure to act on radiological imaging reports
- Guidance on Complaints in Residential and Nursing Homes
- National Patient Safety Agency: Safer Practice Notice: "Right Patient, Right Blood"
- Guidance on Strengthening Personal and Public Involvement in Health and Social Care
- National Patient Safety Agency: Safe Medication Alerts
- National Patient Safety Agency: Safer Practice Notice 17: Using Bedrails Safely and Effectively
- National Patient Safety Agency: Slips, Trips and Falls in Hospital (PSO 3)
- NPSA Patient Safety Alert 22: Reducing the Risk of Hyponatraemia when Administering Intravenous Infusions to Children
- Reporting and follow-up on Serious Adverse Incidents; and Reporting on Breaches of Patients waiting in Excess of 12 Hours in Emergency Care Department
- SAI Reporting Template from 1st April 2007 (PDF 20 KB)
- SAI Reporting Template from 1st April 2007 (MS Word 41 KB)
- SAI Learning Proforma from 1st April 2007 (PDF 23 KB)
- SAI Learning Proforma from 1st April 2007 (MS Word 35 KB)
- Reporting Breach of A & E Standard Template (PDF 20 KB)
- Reporting Breach of A & E Standard Template (MS Word 43 KB)
- HSS (SQSD) 19/07 (PDF 99.7 KB)
- Conducting Patient Safety Reviews/Lookback Exercise
- Warning to Travellers who change their Travel Plans
- Safety First: A Framework for Sustainable Improvement in the HPSS
- National Confidential Inquiry : 5 year report into suicide and homicide by people with Mental Illness (NICISH)
- Emergency Care Reform - Definitions and Guidance Framework
- DS 154 06 - Cover Letter (PDF 396 KB)
- Unscheduled Care Definitions and Guidance Framework (PDF 98.2 KB)
- How to Classify Adverse Incidents and Risk
- Reporting and Follow-up on Serious Adverse Incidents
- Reporting of Serious Adverse Incidents Within the HPSS
- Reporting and Follow-up on Serious Adverse Incidents: Interim Guidance
- HSS (PPM) 10/02 - Clinical and Social Care Governance: Guidelines for Implementation
