The theme for this year's World Patient Safety Day is 'Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety'.
In the build up to this special day, we've been interviewing staff from across the health and care system, to ask for their insights into staff safety and how it impacts patient safety.
But today on World Patient Safety Day, we're delighted to release a short video, giving you a glimpse into an online workshop we held in partnership with Nutshell Communications on 7 September.
The intimate, highly participative event, known as Whose Shoes?, was attended by staff in health and care and patients, as part of our work around World Patient Safety Day. During the event, different scenarios - crowdsourced by real people - were discussed. The purpose of the event was for staff and patients to get together and openly talk about their personal experiences around key issues in staff safety and how they impact patient safety.
Patient Safety Learning Chief Executive, Helen Hughes, commented:
"We were delighted with our collaboration with Whose Shoes. It’s an impressive approach to provide the space and support to consider real-life scenarios and hear people’s responses and personal experiences. It’s the first time we’ve done this and we want to do more! We’ve captured insights and pledges for staff safety improvement that will inform our work and the change we all want to see for safer healthcare."
Please enjoy this short video, giving you a glimpse into the event and an example of one of the scenarios we discussed:
Graphic recorder Anna Geyer of New Possibilities produced visual minutes of the event, which you can view on the hub. You'll also find a reflective summary, created after the event by graphic recorder Carrie Lewis, New Possibilities.
Towards the end of the event, each attendee identified a pledge - some action they would take as a result of what they'd learnt. Our own pledge is to use the learning we gained during the event, along with insights from our World Patient Safety Day interviewees, and build it into the work we're doing at Patient Safety Learning and the hub.
Visit our World Patient Safety Day section on the hub, where you can find the various interviews we've had leading up to the day, as well as the visuals from our Whose Shoes event.
Interviews include:
- "My passion for staff safety was borne out of frustration" with Eve Mitchell, the hub Topic Leader for Safe Staffing and the Founder of ‘Establishment Genie’, a safe-staffing workforce planning and benchmarking tool.
- "But I spoke up anyway" with Kathy Nabbie, Surgical First Assistant and Scrub Theatre Practitioner.
- “Evidence shows that when staff feel psychologically safe, they are more likely to speak out in the patient’s best interest” with Rob Tomlinson, a nurse in the operating theatres at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust, and Peter Smith, now retired after a thirty-year career in operating theatre nursing.
- "Transparency is what’s going to allow people to feel safe... to allow staff to continue delivering their job in the best way" with Nick Kelly, Co-founder and CEO of the Axela Group, specialising in health and social care services.
- “Staff safety should encompass a holistic approach” with Kirsty Wood, Senior Critical Care Outreach Practitioner.
- “It is our job as an organisation to create the conditions for success” with Neal Jones, Director of Patient Safety at Liverpool University Hospitals.
- "A motivated, well-cared-for workforce deliver high quality patient care" with Yvonne Coghill, Director, Workforce Race Equality, NHS London and nurse by background.
We would love to hear your own views and experiences around staff safety and patient safety. If you're not already registered on the hub, you can do so quickly and easily.
Register today and share your thoughts with us.
