Patient Safety in Mental Health

Patient Safety in Mental Health Dr Moyra Guthrie Consultant Psychiatrist Tayside

Patient Safety in Mental Health

Patient Safety in Mental HealthLessons Learned • Senior management endorsement • Adequate administrative support • Try to avoid silos • Recognition that safety is everyone’s business

Patient Safety in Mental HealthLessons Learned • Recognition that methodology is ALIEN and even counter-intuitive • Data gathering by front-line staff • Reluctance/extra work • Don’t spread until testing complete

Patient Safety in Mental HealthLessons Learned • Medical engagement • Temporary staff (in particular junior doctors)

Patient Safety in Mental Health

Patient Safety in Mental Health

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Updates in Patient Safety

Dr David Hall Chair of Patient Safety Expert Reference Group in Mental Health, and National Clinical Lead Mental Health

Patient Safety and Mental Health

Health Information Technology Patient Safety

Patient Safety in Mental Health

PATIENT SAFETY IN SURGERY

Patient Safety in Canada

Campus Mental Health and Public Safety

How Mental Health Affects Workplace Safety

Health IT and Patient Safety:

Health Information Exchange and Patient Safety

Patient and Health Care worker Safety

Patient Safety

The Mental Health Care Patient Management System

Health IT and Patient Safety:

The prisoner/patient experience in offender mental health

Innovations in Patient Safety

Patient Safety

Stakeholders in Patient Safety

Nursing skill mix in acute mental health in-patient environments

Patient Safety