Resources

Welcome to the Resources pages. This is where you can find:

Case Studies
Measure Definitions
Useful Documents
And More

Safety Thermometer Stories

Safety Thermometer Stories are collections of case studies around how and why different Trusts have used or implemented the Safety Thermometer tools in their organisation.

Useful Documents

Here you can find some useful documents. This includes survey forms, submission schedules, interactive PDF's and more.

Measure Definitions

Want more information about the measures? Read in depth descriptions of the measures recorded for each Thermometer here.

Harm Free Care from the Patients Perspective

The quest for ‘‘harm free’ care is new and can only be delivered through setting up measurement systems which prompt your frontline teams to think differently - measuring harm from the patients’ perspective and not from the healthcare providers.

Medication Safety Thermometer: The benefits of implementation at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust are one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country, serving the one million residents of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Liz McKechnie, Medication Safety Lead Pharmacist at UHL, has given us this feedback on the benefits they have seen from their Medication Safety Thermometer roll out.

A Tale of Two Whiteboards

This video describes the work that was done on a female ward at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust to improve the existing whiteboard and to make make the use of it efficient in reducing the four harms.

Implementation of the Mental Health Safety Thermometer at SWYPFT

South West Yorkshire Partnership (SWYPFT) are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services to the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield.

SWYPFT had implemented NHS Safety Thermometer "Classic", which allows teams to measure harm and the proportion of patients that are 'harm free' from pressure ulcers, falls, urine infections (in patients with a catheter) and venous thromboembolism.

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