Safe Care Partnership explained
The Safe Care Partnership was launched in March 2022, and its first phase lasted for around two years until May 2024.
The aim of the partnership was to accelerate the pace and scale of patient safety improvements at a national level across NHS Wales, bringing together health boards and trusts with Improvement Wales and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).
Based on the IHI Framework for Safe, Reliable and Effective Care, the partnership included three main areas:
- Leading for Patient Safety
- Training for Patient Safety
- Primary Site Visits
Leave a legacy
These three areas of work fed into the Safe Care Collaboration (SCC), which saw 37 teams across NHS Wales, over 18 months, carry out projects to prevent deterioration within community care, outpatient and acute care work streams.
This work was supported by a leadership workstream which aimed to support the adoption of the organizational learning systems, culture and working environments required for improvement to succeed.
Hear more from our Interim National Director for Quality, Safety and Improvement, Dominique Bird, about the Safe Care Collaboration and the role he played in the first phase of the Safe Care Partnership.
Case studies
Discover the successes achieved in projects carried out by teams across NHS Wales as part of the Safe Care Collaboration. Among the strong themes that emerged from this work were patient outcomes, patient experience, culture and collaboration.
