Primary Care Patient Safety Strategy Survey

Overview

Dear Primary Care Colleagues

The NHS Patient Safety Strategy (2019), the first national strategy for improving patient safety, was published in 2019 and applies to all sectors. However ,it has been recognised the Strategy needs more specific interpretation for Primary Care. The Primary Care Patient Safety Strategy was published in September 2024 and describes the national and local commitments to improve patient safety in primary care,  supported by structures and processes (LFPSE and PSIRF) that enable an appropriate response with learning, sharing of learning and improvement.

NHS England’s ambition is for  a single, simple patient safety event recording form and process, with improved quality of incident (patient safety event), near miss (sometimes called good catches), good practice events and risk recording.

The Survey

The ICB Patient Safety Specialists are offering Practices, Surgeries and Community Pharmacies support to understand and implement the Strategy through a series of interactive webinars in Autumn 2025  To make the most effective use of your time and resources, we want these sessions to be tailored to your needs, so please can you complete the survey as fully as you can so we can get this right for you.

On this page, you will find links below to the Primary Care Patient Safety Strategy, the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), e-learning for health for the Patient Safety Syllabus Training and the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LfPSE) webpages.