Health Services: Safety

(asked on 1st November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have, if any, to replace the NHS Safety Thermometer with an equivalent system to track patient safety in NHS hospitals and community care facilities.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 15th November 2021

The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England and Improvement have no plans to replace the NHS Safety Thermometer system.

The data generated from the Safety Thermometer has been shown to be not fit for current purposes and alternative data is available from other existing sources.

For patient safety areas like falls prevention, pressure ulcer prevention, venous thromboembolism and catheter associated urinary tract infections, there is a well-established National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance or equivalent guidelines providing the best evidence on how to reduce harm. Such guidance is supported by a range of national audits and improvement capacity building, including support for measurement for improvement and new sources of patient safety data provided by Model Health Systems.

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