Patients Association 100 Day Challenge 08/09
Patients Association 100 Day Challenge-
Make Patient Safety Your Number One Priority
• We’re asking all the Chairs of all NHS Boards to make patient safety the first item on the agenda of all Board meetings
• We feel that this would be one effective way of ensuring that the Board reflects the priority given to patient safety by the public
• An online survey will assess how many Trust Boards have chosen to respond to the challenge and also ask them questions about their approach to patient safety (what initiatives they have in place, where responsibility for patient safety rests, what discussions they have with the Trust executives, sharing best practice within the Trust)
Board members and NHS Professionals that attended the Patients Association summit, Safety First: Top of Your Board’s Agenda? on Tuesday 7th October*, will remember that at the close of the conference the Patients Association issued a challenge to the Boards of all NHS Trusts to make patient safety the first agenda item at their Board meetings. We are now communicating this challenge to Board members who weren’t able to attend the summit. We feel that working with NHS Boards is key to improving patient safety.
The 100 days comes to a close on Friday 6th March†. The following week, an online questionnaire will be emailed to the Chairs of every Trust Board to survey the response to the challenge and attempt to gain a better understanding of how each Board approaches patient safety at their Trust.
We plan to publish findings from the survey at the upcoming Patient Safety event (due to be held in March/April 2009) to be hosted by Patients Association Vice President Sir Richard Branson.
*Details of this event including presentation slides are available here
† Date calculated excluding weekends, national holidays and Christmas & New Year period.
