Quality NHSS learning environments

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Evolving Patient Safety Partnership Educational
Framework
Primary Drivers
Example Secondary Drivers
Patient safety leadership development, with
safety a strategic priority NHSS as a learning
organisation committed to staff development and
improvement Embedding patient safety and
improvement methods in curricula, building a
sustainable infrastructure Patients actively
engaged in driving patient safety
improvement Safety culture and quality
improvement enhanced by relevant scoping,
development research

• Boards on board
• Executives and leaders equipped to lead patient
  safety improvement
• Senior staff equipped with improvement
  capabilities

• SPSP measurement, implementation and spread
• Partnership patient safety leadership courses
• Profession CPD supporting
• KSF Quality Dimension enabling
• Enhanced collaborative working/ learning from
  other national systems e.g., DH England, WHO
• Maximising benefit from incident systems/ other
  patient safety monitoring systems and through use
  of improvement methods

NHSS staff with knowledge, skills and behaviors
to minimise harm to patients and to improve
quality of care

• Undergraduate, postgraduate and CPD modernised
  health profession and management
• Regulation and Profession bodies supporting
• SFC/ Universities Scotland etc. developing
  opportunities, including research to develop
  curricula
• Reinforced by relevant student placements
• Support for induction

• Involvement of patients in patient safety staff
  education and development, e.g., patient stories
• Enhanced staff patient communication
• Improved team working and empowered patients

September 2009 A linked table of partner -
education, training and learning solutions,
2009-2011, is under development by NES, QIS,
Scottish Government. For further information link
to the NHS Education for Scotland website
http//www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/patient_safety/

• Quality NHSS learning environments
• Sustainable experiental learning
• Assessment of learning part of the process/
  accreditation
• Impact of learning on quality demonstrated
• Portfolio of training solutions, including
  knowledge services, e-learning, work based etc.