Development of the SPCR Patient Safety Toolkit for general practices.
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing, testing and implementing the NIHR SPCR Patient Safety Toolkit in general practices in England.
IRAS ID
109636
Contact name
Anthony John Avery
Contact email
Research summary
Background: Errors happen everywhere in health care. Accidentally being subjected to an error in general practice can result in serious harm and possibly death. It is also a cause of emotional distress both for the patients and doctors involved. Avoiding errors, or identifying and correcting them, is a high priority for the NHS. The development and use of a Patient Safety Toolkit for general practices could play a major role in preventing patients from being harmed.
Project plan: We plan a multi-faceted project to
1) Develop and assess the use of these tools in a sample of 30 English general practices;
2) Find out how these 30 practices, along with a further 20 English general practices get on with using the complete Patient Safety Toolkit and how practices vary in their levels of patient safety.The findings from this project will help us to develop a bid for a larger study aimed at discovering whether the Patient Safety Toolkit can be successfully used to improve patient safety.(see Appendix 1 Patient Safety Toolkit for UK General Practice)
Team expertise: Our team has extensive experience and expertise in undertaking research of this kind and has already developed a number of patient safety assessment tools.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
13/EM/0258
Date of REC Opinion
15 Jul 2013
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion