Research: NIHR GM PSRC is recruiting NHS professionals from ethnic minority backgrounds
Are you an NHS frontline healthcare professional from an ethnic minority background concerned about patient safety? We want to hear from you! As part of our Enhancing Cultures of Safety research theme, we are recruiting NHS frontline healthcare professionals from an...
#SafetyNet WEBINAR: Medicines safety and preventable harm: a health economics perspective | with Prof Rachel Elliott
You are invited to join us at the next SafetyNet seminar with Prof Rachel Elliott, taking place online on Wednesday 15 May at 12.30pm. To reserve your space, please click here. Topic: Medicines safety and preventable harm: a health economics perspective Speaker:...
Shared digital NHS prescribing record could avoid nearly 1 million annual drug errors
Avoiding 16,000 patient harms and saving 20+ lives and £millions for services in England Implementing a single shared digital prescribing record across the NHS in England could avoid nearly 1 million drug errors every year, stopping up to 16,000 fewer patients from...
Working arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges
NHS leaders need to rethink how these professionals are engaged, supported, and usedWorking arrangements for locum doctors pose significant patient safety challenges for the NHS in England, although there are opportunities to be grasped too, finds...
Antipsychotics for dementia linked to more harms than previously acknowledged
Antipsychotic use in people with dementia is associated with higher risks of a wide range of serious health outcomes compared with non-use, according to a new study from a collaboration across the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee.Higher...
Locums and permanent GPs equally safe, study reassures patients
There is no evidence that locum doctors are less clinically competent or practice less safely than permanent doctors, a study in England led by University of Manchester researchers has shown. Some differences in practice and performance of locum and permanent GPs were...
Prof Darren Ashcroft, NIHR GM PSRC Director, appointed as NIHR Senior Investigator
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Professor Darren Ashcroft, director of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC), has been awarded the prestigious title of NIHR Senior...
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024 – Applications open
The Midlands Graduate School is pleased to invite applications for next round of ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowships, to be based at any of their partner institutions: Aston University, the University of Birmingham, De Montfort University, the University of...
SafetyNet Organisational Culture Workshop brings together PSRC researchers in an exciting new collaborative space
By Maria Zubair and Joy Spiliopoulos On the 14th of February 2024, the NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) hosted the first NIHR PSRC Network (SafetyNet) workshop on organisational patient safety culture. Being co-led by GM PSRC...
SafetyNet launches the NIHR PSRC Economics of Safety Network
By Alireza Mahboub-AhariThe NIHR Greater Manchester Patient Safety Research Collaboration (GM PSRC) has hosted a SafetyNet event that brought together some of the brightest minds in patient safety research. On the 16th of January, Economics of Safety researchers...
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