Patient Safety Zone

The Scottish Patient Safety Programme's patient safety priorities:

• Deteriorating patients
• Sepsis
• Heart Failure
• Pressure ulcers
• Surgical site infections
• Venous thromboembolism
• Catheter associated urinary infections
• Falls with harm
• Safer medicines

Below are a number of documents that summarise NES's coordinated response to the patient safety topics as outlined by the World Health Organisation, Scottish Government (Point of Care Priorities) and the Scottish Patient Safety Programme. The tables are working drafts that highlight teams, key contacts and a summary of current work as identiified by each topic.

NES involvement in Patient Safety WHO topics

This table is a high level summary (updated: 20 May 2014) of NHS Education for Scotland's involvement in the 11 Patient Safety topics as identified by the World Health Organisation.

NES Involvement in SPSP Programme and Point of Care Priorities

This document outlines NES involvement in SPSP Programme and Point of Care Priorities. In supporting the NHS Scotland Implementation of the 'Patient Safety Essentials' and 'Safety Priorities' for Acute Adult Safety (CEL 19/2013), the following documents present NES's educational resources.

For further information, please contact Nancy El-Farargy - Nancy.El-Farargy@nes.scot.nhs.uk.