Transcript NHS Safety Thermometer

NHS Safety Thermometer
Measuring harm at the point of care
Why use the Safety Thermometer?
• To measure harm at the
bedside in a systematic way
• To ask the right questions
about key outcomes
•To integrate measurement
of harm in to your daily
work
•To support patient care
and patient experience
•To understand how things
can be improved
A call to action for frontline healthcare professionals –
staff at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust are using the NHS
Safety Thermometer once per month to rapidly review the
proportion of patients free from harm: matron Dylan Edwards
with patient Kathryn Shuttleworth, and staff nurse Helen Gresty
•To measure across the
health economy in any care
setting
Did you know that every year in England there are…
74,689
patients with catheters & infection
13,945 patient falls (with harm)
50,552 patients with pressure ulcers
(category III&IV) like these
You can make a difference!
Together we can change this…
Start counting today
Measuring 4 Safety Outcomes together
Pressure
Ulcers
Catheters
and UTI
Harm
Free
Care
VTE
Do you know how many
patients are impacted by
these harms in your
organisation, caseload or
ward?
Falls
Join our growing community of
people who want to know and
what to change. Together we
can achieve harm free care….
Which of these patients do you want to be?
NHS Safety Thermometer
Designed to be used by
front line staff in any
care setting - as part of
patient care
Minimises data
collection burden–
One day a month no
more than 10 minutes
per patient
Immediate visual
results – line charts at
the click of a button
Measurement for
Improvement – get a
baseline and track
progress over time
Patient level data on
all four harms
For case studies and
success stories visit
www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk
Click Safety Express and
Safety Thermometer
The Safety Thermometer is an NHS excel tool which can be
downloaded for free from
http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/inter
ventions/relatedprogrammes/safety-thermometer/
The administrator tab
allows you to merge
data from different
wards / caseloads /
organisations
The definitions tab
contains operational
definitions for the
four harms
The survey tab allows
you to enter your
data – this can also be
printed
The analyser tab allows you to
produce line charts with your data
at the click of a button
Safety Challenge
Measuring Harm Free Care
Get ready
Start with 4
Do the survey
• Check if your organisation has a Safety Thermometer lead &
make contact
• Download materials from the patient safety first website
• Recruit your 4 survey teams / wards / caseloads
• Show them the Safety Thermometer survey
• Test the survey
• GO LIVE – do the survey
• CELEBRATE
• Look at your data using the analyser function
• Submit data
• We will contact you within a month of data submission
What Next?
Go to the Patient Safety First website
www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk and click on Safety Express and then
Safety Thermometer, or follow this link:
http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/interve
ntions/relatedprogrammes/safety-thermometer/ for all
supporting information including:
• Safety Thermometer user case studies
• A monthly timetable with dates for data collection, submission and
return
• A detailed ‘How to use the Safety Thermometer’ guide
• A step by step guide on how to analyse your Safety Thermometer
data