Patient Safety Zone

Patient safety organisations:

Patient Safety in Primary Care

Scottish Patient Safety Programme

NES Patient Safety and Clinical Skills - for a range of educational research and resources

Scottish Patient Safety Research Network

Healthcare Improvement Scotland Patient Safety

Other related Scottish organisations:

SIGN (Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network)

Scottish Health Council 

Scottish Patient Safety Research Network 

Social Dimensions of Health Institute, University of St Andrews

Scottish Infection Research Network 

National Patient Safety Agency 

NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement 

National Patient Safety Foundation 

Action Against Medical Accidents

Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership

Clinical Human Factors Group 

Patient Safety in Surgery

1000 Lives Plus (NHS Wales) 

HSC Safety Forum (Northern Ireland) 

Patient Safety (NHS England)

European Network for Patient Safety 

World Health Organisation: Patient Safety 

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)

Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ)

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare

LINNEAUS Euro-PC

Global Patient Safety Alerts 

The Clinical Skills Managed Educational Network (CS MEN) is a national network of healthcare educators and practitioners. Its activities include: funding research and development in clinical skills education; commissioning and deploying a mobile clinical skills unit to provide equity of access to state of the art simulation facilities for remote and rural healthcare practitioners; delivering evidence-based standardised educational resources; developing a quality assurance system for assessing the teaching of clinical skills.

This is a group of staff from across NHS Education for Scotland, working in a variety of ways to research, develop and promote a rage of educational solutions to help improve patient safety.The group aims to champion patient safety, roll out good practice and embed patient safety principles across educational programmes.