
SafetyNet PhD Networking event 2024
On 4th March 2024, the six Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs) came together for the SafetyNet PhD Networking event, held in Leeds. This event was hosted by the NIHR Yorkshire & Humber PSRC and was the first to bring together PhD students and...

Collaborative efforts to enhance medication safety: first meeting held in Leeds
On Tuesday, 5 March 2024, we hosted the first SafetyNet medication safety meeting in Leeds. All six Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs) were represented, reflecting the importance of medication safety in today’s healthcare and its integration within each...

Medicines safety and preventable harm: a health economics perspective | Professor Rachel Elliott
Date of event: Wednesday, 15 May 2024 The economic impact of suboptimal medication use has motivated most health systems to develop strategies and interventions such as those that change prescribing or monitoring behaviour, and medicines-taking. These are often...

Value Driven Regulation of Health & Care Quality in the Netherlands
Date of event: Thursday, 7 March 2024 In this fascinating SafetyNet webinar, Professor Ian Leistikow from Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Dutch Health & Youth Care Inspectorate, contrasted classic regulatory strategies of increasing compliance with a ‘value...

Behavioural Research in Healthcare eXchange (BRIHX) seminar
Date of seminar: Wednesday, 13 March 2024 The Behavioural Research in Healthcare eXchange (BRIHX) seminar in March was be led by Dan Berry from the behavioural science unit in NHS England. Dan provided an overview of how the unit in NHS England works, some of its...

Enhancing Patient Safety through collaboration: the role of SafetyNet
By NIHR Newcastle PSRC SafetyNet has been created as a way for the funded PSRCs in England to work together. This is an excellent opportunity for us to share our experience and expertise to maximise the outputs of the funding provided by NIHR.As a new PSRC in...

Co-producing a World Patient Safety Day event – Part 3: Impact and lessons
In this blog post, which is the third in a three-part series, we share reflections from our World Patient Safety Day 2023 event. Before reading this post you may wish to read Part 1 which focuses on how we planned for this event, or Part 2 where we share some of the...

Co-producing a World Patient Safety Day event – Part 2: Highlights
In this blog post, which is the second in a three-part series, we share some of the highlights from our World Patient Safety Day 2023 event. Before reading this post you may wish to read Part 1 which focuses on how we planned for this event. The World Patient Safety...

Co-producing a World Patient Safety Day event – Part 1: Planning
World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) is an annual event to promote patient safety, and takes place on 17 September each year. In 2023, the theme for WPSD was “Engaging Patients for Patient Safety". This year’s World Health Organization slogan “Elevate the voice of...
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