Closing the Gap in Patient Safety was the fourth and final round of our Closing the Gap improvement programme, which supported front-line teams to tackle the gap between best practice and the routine delivery of care.
Aims
The projects represented a wide range of organisations and health care settings and aimed to demonstrate an impact on an identified patient safety hazard or problem. The project interventions had already been tested on a small scale and were evidence based with a logical rationale for why they were used to address the identified patient safety problem/hazard for that project.
Projects
Due to the range of skills and experience required (such as quality improvement, evaluation and clinical/service expertise), the projects were delivered by a group of organisations working together. Each project included at least one organisation with the ability to influence wider practice and opinion.
The types of project funded included:
- approaches to build skills in improving patient safety
- interventions to improve the reliability of clinical care
- creating the conditions for the delivery of safer care.