The London Air Quality and Health Programme Office has collaborated with a wide range of partners across London’s healthcare system and the Mayor of London to develop the UK’s first targeted air pollution alert system for health professionals in London. The London Air Quality alert system will provide timely alerts to all GPs and Emergency […]
A stage two resource alert has been issued around patient safety incident reporting and responding to patient safety alerts. Patient safety incident reporting and responding to patient safety alerts On 1 April 2016 the statutory patient safety functions previously delivered within NHS England transferred to NHS Improvement. These functions are the responsibility for: operating the […]
A National Patient Safety Alert has been issued around ligature and ligature point risk assessment tools and policies. In keeping with guidance around publishing information of this nature, this alert is not available in the public domain and can only be accessed through the Central Alerting System website by registered users. About National Patient Safety […]
A new alerting system launched today by NHS England will ensure warnings of potential risks to the safety of patients can be developed much more quickly and be rapidly disseminated right across the NHS. The new National Patient Safety Alerting System (NPSAS) will ensure warnings of emerging risks can be rapidly issued following their identification […]
Since the publication of this blog Dr Mike Durkin has left NHS England. Today sees the launch of the new National Patient Safety Alerting System (NPSAS), a vital tool that NHS England will use to ensure warnings of potential risks to the safety of patients can be swiftly developed and disseminated to every corner of […]
Changes are being implemented to the way national organisations develop and issue safety alerts to healthcare providers. Contents Changes to national alerts What does this mean for providers Background on the new national patient safety alerting system National Patient Safety Alert accreditation process News and updates Share your views Summary criteria for the management and […]
This page was previously used to publish data on all NHS trusts who had not signed off relevant Patient Safety Alerts issued up to October 2019 by NHS England and NHS Improvement, as ‘action complete’ or ‘action not required’ within the designated timeframe. As of October 2022 all of these alerts have now been signed off […]
A patient safety alert has been issued today (10 April 2014) by NHS England on minimising risks of omitted and delayed medicines for patients receiving homecare services. This alert has been issued via the Central Alerting System (CAS) to all NHS healthcare organisations that commission clinical homecare services. You can read the full ‘Minimising risks […]
A patient safety alert has been issued today (9 June 2014) by NHS England on standardising the early identification of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI). The alert has been issued to all NHS acute trusts and foundation trusts providing pathology services. A national algorithm, standardising the definition of AKI has now been agreed. This provides the […]
Useful links for primary care: Cornwall Local Medical Committee Devon Local Medical Committee Complaints NHS England primary care resources Primary Care Commissioning NHS Employers Read code information Calculating Quality Reporting Service (CQRS) General Practice Extraction Service NHS website Care Quality Commission Shared Business Services Patient Safety Alerts Central Alerting System Primary Care Web Tool Models of […]