Commission on Education &
Training for Patient Safety
Health Education England
HEE exists for one reason:
To improve the quality of care delivered to patients. Through our Local
Education and Training Boards (LETBs), we ensure that our workforce has
the right skills, values and behaviours, in the right numbers, at the right
time and in the right place.
• £5billion budget.
• Workforce planning.
• Commission all under/postgraduate education and training for
healthcare staff.
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Facts and figures
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Over 1000 NHS employers
1.3 million employees
300 different jobs
More than 1 million people treated
every 36 hours
50,000 registered nurses employed
in care homes
30-50,000 registered nurses
employed in the private and
independent sector
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HEE currently commissions 129
structured education programmes
for 110 different roles
35 main education programmes for
non-medical clinical professions
94 programmes of medical and
dental education to deliver GPs,
dentists and 78 different types of
doctor
Over 150,000 students in training
funded by HEE at any one time
Patient Safety Programme for England
• March 2014 Secretary of State call to action to:
• Make the NHS the safest system in the world
• Halve avoidable harm and save 6000 lives in 3 years
• Initiatives for safety improvement aligned to contribute
towards achieving shared goal
• Create a conducive context for improvement at a local level
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Overseen by Strategy and Advisory Group
Chaired by Sir David Dalton
Coherent programme for safety across national organisations &
programmes
• Sign Up to Safety
• The Patient Safety Collaborative Programme
• The Safety Fellows Initiative
• The SAFE initiative
• NHS Choices website
• Speak Up for Safety
• CQC Inspections
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Other work in the Patient Safety landscape
• Concordat on Human Factors
• Commission on Education and Training for Patient Safety
• Concordat on Human Factors delivery
• Human Factors & Patient Safety Network
• National Patient Safety Alert System
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HEE’s integrated approach
Commission on Education and Training
for Patient Safety
Chair: Norman Williams
Vice Chair: Sir Keith Pearson
Members: External experts from across the
system
Meets quarterly to make recommendations
about education and training for patient
safety.
Learning to be Safe (L2BS)
Programme Board
PAF
Chair: Wendy Reid
Vice Chair: Lisa Bayliss-Pratt
Members: Lead National Director. Lead
DEQ, LH, RK, PM, RC, AR, HW
Meets monthly to assure programme and
make key decisions.
L2BS Expert Advisory Group
L2BSProgramme Delivery Group
Co-Chairs: Lisa Bayliss-Pratt and Jane Reid
Members: Experts, regulators, partner org, academics,
patients, learners.
Meets bi-monthly to advise on work and share expertise.
Critical friends who will take on programme activity to
analyse findings and evidence to give expert opinion on
outcomes and sustainability.
Co-Chairs: Lisa Hughes and Renee
Knopp
Members: LETB Patient Safety,
Human Factors and QI Leads
Meets bi-monthly for cross-HEE
coordination of activity and
intelligence.
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L2BS Programme Coordination
Group
Co-Chairs: Lisa Hughes and
Renee Knopp
Members: HEE National staff
involved in L2BS Programme.
Meets weekly to drive day to
day programme activity.
4 themes
•Education and training
about how to raise
concerns about patient
safety
•Utilising mandatory
training to improve
patient safety
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•Education and training in
human factors for patient
safety
Raising
concerns
Human
factors
CPD
Patient
Centred
Outcomes
•Education and training in
service improvement to
improve patient centred
outcomes and patient
safety
The evidence
Literature Review
• Reviewing emerging literature on
education and training for patient safety
Evidence Synopses
• Synthesise the evidence against the 4
themes
• DEQs to share examples of good practice, risk
Visits to 4
areas and key issues
Geographies/evidence hearing
• Follow up with focused questions
Expert Advisory Group
• Gather and test evidence using the L2BS
experts
Overview
• Work with PAF to understand the resonance of
emerging themes
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Deliverables
Timeline
Deliverable
Winter 2014
Completed initiation and definition phase report
Spring 2015
Interim deliverables for SoS announcement
Summer 2015
Complete recommendations
Autumn 2015
Publish report and HEE response including commitment to
developing strategy
Winter 2015
Publish L2BS strategy
2015/16
Implement L2BS strategy
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The report outline:
Foreword
• Our ambition
Background
• The case for change
What we did
• Evidence collection and analysis
• Stakeholder engagement
What we found
(against 4 themes)
The recommendations
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• What education and training already happens?
• What is working well and why?
• What are the gaps/risks?
• How do we fill the gaps and mitigate the risks?
• How do we enable uptake of best practice?