Regional mental health patient safety learning event in March
The East Midlands Alliance is holding a regional patient safety learning event in March for mental health professionals on 12 March 2024.
The Alliance works in partnership with Health Innovation East Midlands to run a region-wide Patient Safety programme involving leads from all six provider member organisations.
The programme has five priority areas:
- Reducing restrictive practice
- Reducing suicide and self-harm
- Sexual safety
- Mechanical restraint in high secure settings
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
A large learning event is being held on 12 March 2024 in Nottingham with a focus on Service User Experience and Patient Safety.
Dr Girish Kunigiri, Medical Director at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: “The national patient safety programme support has ended in other regions, but the Alliance secured funding to extend the programme by two years in the East Midlands.
“The programme takes a community of practice approach involving lived experience voices to develop and share best practice and includes a series of ‘share and learn’ deep-dive sessions. Recent share and learn sessions have included a focus on hidden objects and the Duty of Candour.
“I would recommend as many mental health professionals working in the East Midlands as possible to attend the learning event.”
East Midlands Alliance providers can bring their key partners to the learning event, and any mental health professionals who would like to take part can also contact Richard Drakes from Health Innovation East Midlands at richard.drakes@nottingham.ac.uk.