The NIHR SafetyNet Symposium 2025, held in Manchester on 17 October 2025, featured a poster exhibition of 59 innovative projects from the six NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs), spanning a wide range of emerging issues such as medication safety, maternity care, virtual wards, and health equity interventions — all contributing to the shared mission of tackling inequities, reducing harm and improving patient safety across diverse populations.

On the day, we celebrated innovation and research impact across the following categories:

Click here for winners and runners-up in each category.

NIHR Newcastle PSRC

1 – Abi Collins – Non-Medical Out-Of-Pocket Costs of Febrile Children’s Emergency Department Attendances and Admissions: A European Survey

2 – Radin Karimi – Understanding polypharmacy in older adults receiving home care: Insights from routinely collected data

3 – Matthew Cooper – The Potential Harms of Social Prescribing. A Global Umbrella Review and Dark Logic Model

4 – Sarah Alamer – A systematic meta-ethnography of the barriers and facilitators of adherence to treatment interventions for COPD amongst individuals from minority ethnic communities

5 – Jessica McCann – Medication Appropriateness in Older Critical Care Patients: A Scoping Review Protocol

6 – Emily Shaw – Health-Related Quality of Life in Advanced Cancer Patients Using Immuno-, Biological and Precision Therapies

7 – Liyuan Zhu – Predicting Diabetic Eye Disease with AI: Trajectory Embedding and Causal Exploration of Statin Effects

8 – Zainab Awan – Predicting Chronic Kidney Disease Progression from Stage III to Stage V using Language Models

9 – Rajeev Shrestha – Outcomes of Deprescribing for people with Life-Limiting Conditions: A Systematic Review

10 – Chris Lovegrove – Evaluating the occupation-based complex intervention for living well with anxiety and Parkinson’s disease (OBtAIN-PD): A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial

NIHR Midlands PSRC

11 – Nevil Chackalaparambil Philip – DEKODE: A Scalable Surveillance and Quality Improvement Model Transforming DKA Care Across the NHS

12 – Yixin Wang – Cancer wating times in cancer care of key cancers

13 – Hsu Phern Chong – Maternity safety: Thematic analyses of stakeholder meetings

14 – Saba Tariq (1) – A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association of Adipokines with Metabolic Well-being of Expectant Mothers

15 – Saba Tariq (2) – Formative Evaluation of Forum Theatre to Promote Safer Service Co-Design in Maternity Care

16 – Bushra Ali AlEnazi – What is The Evidence for Virtual Wards or Hospital-At-Home Care Pathways for Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

17 – Bianca Ungureanu – Systematically analysing behaviour change techniques used in 44 interventions to reduce unprofessional behaviour between healthcare staff

18 – Justin Aunger – Interventions to improve adherence to clinical guidelines for the management of pulmonary nodules and their follow-up: a systematic review

19 – Valencia Kabeya – Individual and system-level contributors to maternal mortality: A systematic review of maternity safety reports in the UK

20 – Christopher Hatton – Clinical Decision Support Software for Empirical Antibiotic Prescribing in Hospital: A Systematic Review

NIHR Central London PSRC

21 – Ahmed El-Sayed – The influence of mechanical ventilation and portable air cleaners upon aerosol spread in a hospital outpatients clinic

22 – Andrew D. Kane (1) – A national analysis of invasive arterial blood pressure monitoring rates in routine anaesthesia practice

23 – Andrew D. Kane (2) – Does continuous arterial blood pressure monitoring during surgery benefit patients who are high risk, particularly those who are older and living with frailty? A Project Outline

24 – Emma Beecham – Exploring Patient Safety Reporting Practices in Maternity Services at an Inner-City Tertiary Care Hospital: Preliminary Findings from a Mixed-Methods Analysis

25 – Sigrún Eyrúnardóttir Clark – An evaluation of the impact of national recommendations on patient safety in perioperative care

26 – Grainne Brady – E-PERISCOPE: Evaluation of National Perioperative Screening and Optimisation Programme – preliminary findings

27 – Florence Cook – Postoperative feeding practices and nutritional intake in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing surgery with flap tissue transfer reconstruction: a scoping review

28 – Franciszek Nowak – Review of clinical problems and ongoing technical challenges in development of computer assited interventions for laparoscopic cholecystectomy

29 – Jonathan Gillham – Optimising inpatient blood testing using a novel clinical decision support system: Protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial

NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC

30 – Mark Jeffries – Medicines Safety in the Community Following Mental Health Hospital Discharge: A Qualitative Interview Study

31 – Amelia Taylor – Systematic review examining the benefits of professional, organisational and structural interventions to reduce preventable medications adverse events in primary care

32 – Fanyi Su – Economic evaluations of individual, service, and training interventions for self-harm and suicide prevention: a systematic review

33 – Matthew Butler – Inclusive In-Situ Simulation and Discursive Methods: A Novel Approach to Understanding Team Communication in Patient Safety

34 – Liz Sutton and Mohammad Farhad Peerally – Institutional Dynamics and Safety Equity: How Competing Logics Shape the Translation of National Patient Safety Recommendations from Investigators to Recipients

35 – Neetu Bansal – Experience-based co-design of an intervention to manage acute pain after surgery with surgical patients and healthcare providers

36 – Pauline Rivart – Moving away from risk stratification to a more personalised approach to risk in psychiatric in-patients

37 – Richard N Keers – Improving medication safety after discharge from mental health hospitals: co-developing recommendations with stakeholders

38 – Sneha Amritlal – Economic evaluation of medication safety interventions in primary care: A systematic literature review

39 – Kelly Howells – The work of managing patient safety in the context of virtual wards: a qualitative multi-site study in Northwest England

NIHR North West London PSRC

40 – Aseel Mahmoud – The impact of Barcode Medication Administration on Patient Safety in UK hospital settings: a mixed-methods realist evaluation

41 – Joanna Fraczek – What is the impact of medication-related risk prioritisation tools on patient safety and workforce outcomes? An umbrella review

42 – Javiera Rosenberg – Developing a Tailored and Scalable Intervention to Improve Statin Adherence

43 – Calandra Feather (1) – Pending embargo release

44 – Calandra Feather (2) – Evaluating the impact of an indication-based, patient-specific prescribing tool on prescribing errors in paediatrics: A non-randomised, before-and-after study

45 – Ahmed Alboksmaty (1) – The impact of using AI-powered Voice-to-text Technology for clinical documentation on the quality of care – Systematic Review

46 – Ahmed Alboksmaty (2) – Communication Challenges and Mitigation Strategies in Virtual Consultations versus Face-to-face Appointments – Qualitative Assessment using Focus Group Discussions

47 – William Waldock (1) – The AMR Burden Score eDelphi: Expert and Public Consensus to Standardise AMR Monitoring and Improve Patient Safety

48 – William Waldock (2) – Improving Antimicrobial Prescribing Safety with ‘Ask Eolas’: A Simulation Study of AI-Driven Clinical Decision Support

49 – Ricky Odedra – Understanding the impact of language barriers on patient safety in a paediatric emergency department: A rapid ethnography

NIHR Yorkshire and Humber PSRC

50 – Alison Bravington – Lost in translation? Developing shared meanings, collective action and buy-in to facilitate the translation of a co-designed deprescribing initiative into the care home context

51 – Daisy Halligan – Single and Safe Intervention for MEDication administration (SaSI-MEDs): The development and evaluation of an intervention to de-implement unnecessary double-checking of medicines in hospital

52 – Ed Breckin – Bridging Health Equity: Culturally Adapting the ‘I Manage My Meds’ Toolkit for Diverse Older Populations

53 – Fatima Sabir – Framework-Guided Domain Mapping of Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults: A Scoping Review of Intersectional Risks

54 – Gary Blake – Amplify: Empowering younger people to access and use healthcare safely

55 – Gail Opio-te – Providing safety equity in the management of deterioration. A Realist Review and Evaluation of Hospital at Home for Children

56 – Hana Shamsan – A systematic review of interventions targeting the de-implementation of patient safety practices in hospital settings

57 – Luke Budworth – Exploring patient safety disparities in a diverse English city: a retrospective two cohort study (2015–2019, 2022–2023) using the Connected Bradford data warehouse

58 – Qandeel Shah – De-implementing low value practices in mental health care: A rapid ethnographic study of observations

59 – Raabia Sattar – What are the interventions or support resources available for patients and carers to deliver respiratory care tasks in the home setting? A systematic review

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