NHS Safety Thermometer: Patient Harms and Harm Free Care

"The NHS Safety Thermometer is the measurement tool for a programme of work to support patient safety improvement. It is used to record patient harms at the frontline, and to provide immediate information and analyses for frontline teams to monitor their performance in delivering harm free care."

NHS Safety Thermometer: Patient Harms and Harm Free Care England November 2014 November 2015, official statistics 
Clinical Audit Support Unit
Health & Social Care Information Centre

December 2015

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Can staff and patient perspectives on hospital safety predict harm-free care?

"The findings suggest that although the views of patients and staff predict some overlapping variance in patient safety outcomes, both also offer a unique perspective on patient safety, contributing independently to the prediction of safety outcomes."

Can staff and patient perspectives on hospital safety predict harm-free care? An analysis of staff and patient survey data and routinely collected outcomes
R Lawton, JK O'Hara, L Sheard, C Reynolds, K Cocks, G Armitage, J Wright
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:369-376 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003691

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A preliminary guide to measuring 'harm free' care

"This guide is designed to provide support in implementing the NHS Safety Thermometer and achieving the 2012/13 CQUIN. It shares learning about the best ways to use the tool and what support is available. It offers technical support in validating data and enables readers to start to understand their data."

Delivering the NHS Safety Thermometer CQUIN 2012/13: a preliminary guide to measuring 'harm free' care
QIPP Safe Care Team
Department of Health
May 2012

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