
Are you a Primary Care clinician? Share your insights on patient safety incidents!
Are you a Primary Care clinician who feels comfortable discussing patient safety incidents in your practice? If so, please take part in our study! As part of our Developing Safer Health & Care Systems research theme, we are seeking to interview Primary Care...

Are you a critical care nurse in England? We want to hear your story!
Are you an NMC-registered nurse in England working in critical care with 5 years or less of experience? We want to hear your story and experiences!As part of our Enhancing Cultures of Safety research theme, we are seeking early career nurses working in critical care...

Study suggests care gaps in people seeking help for self-harm
Understanding the care and support people receive after they have sought help for self-harm is vital. Appropriate and timely care can help prevent further self-harm and is key for suicide prevention. Most research to date has focussed on the role of mental health...

MOMENTS – a framework of resources to nurture safety culture development through everyday practices together
A team at the University of Leicester (UoL), part of the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) Enhancing Cultures of Safety theme, along with NHS England’s Maternity and Neonatal Programme Team have developed a set of resources,...

Applications now open for the NIHR GM PSRC Patient Safety Research Development Award
We are delighted to announce the launch of our NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC Patient Safety Research Development Award, an initiative designed to support aspiring patient safety researchers in taking the next step in their careers.Whether you’re a clinician,...

Most people who died by suicide within a year of discharge from inpatient psychiatric care had contact recently with a GP, study finds
More than 80 per cent of people who died by suicide within one year of being discharged from inpatient mental health care had been in recent contact with a GP, new research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient...

Nursing Workload in Critical Care | World Mental Health Day
By Paul Garvey*Many nurses who leave the profession do so within the first three years of practice. The reasons for this are numerous and complex, but what is known is that all staff in the NHS are facing high workloads. A study I am planning to commence in the new...

NHS England introduces its new Primary Care Patient Safety Strategy
On 26 September 2024, NHS England published its Primary care patient safety strategy, which describes the national and local commitments to improve patient safety in primary care. The document builds on cutting-edge research, including a 2020 study conducted by our...

Greater Manchester collaborative wins HSJ Patient Safety Award for Improving Medicines Safety
We’re delighted to announce that NHS Greater Manchester, Health Innovation Manchester, and NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration has won the Improving Medicines Safety Award for ‘Scaling a Local Safety Medication Dashboard (SMASH) Programme to Benefit the 2.8 Million Population of Greater Manchester’ at this year’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards – an esteemed awards programme, designed to encourage and drive improvements in culture and quality across the NHS.

Launch of PPI Toolkits in Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention Research
On July 30th, we had the pleasure of hosting a highly insightful and collaborative online event focused on enhancing Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) in self-harm and suicide prevention research. The event, organised by the Centre for Mental Health...
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