Safer Care Pathways in Mental Health

Health Foundation

Safer Care Pathways in Mental Health

ProjectSite Schedule: June2014 to July 2016

Quarter / Project Activity / Outcome / Who needs to be involved ?
June, July, August 2014 / Establish project site
Inaugural project site team meeting / Trust and team engagement and understanding of project / Key team members and stakeholders
Participate in regional project launch event / Trust and team understanding of project and awareness of other trust project sites / Key team members and stakeholders
Participate in baseline evaluation data collection / Completed organisational and clinical team profile
Completed questionnaire survey and key interviews – evaluation data / Baseline patient safety profile
October, November, December 14 / Care pathway definition and mapping / Completed care pathway diagram / Trust project site clinical team
Prospective hazard analysis training
a)Awareness training
b)Champions training / Cohort of PHA trained staff / Trust project site clinical team
Key Trust staff who can act as PHA champions across the Trust
PHA phase one: Completed PHA process for the care pathway / Risk diagnostic
Identified high priority risks and added to risk register / Trust project site clinical team and key stakeholders
January, February,
March 2015 / PHA phase two: Use of Active Risk Control toolkit (ARC) to identify and evaluate risk control options / Identified/designed service improvement actions / Trust project site clinical team
Commence service improvement cycles and measurement / Service improvements
PHA learning event day: project sites reporting on progress. Planning for next phase of project. / Shared learning across project sites / All Trust project site clinical teams
Prepare for Human Factors phase / Identify staff to be trained and schedule activities / Trust project site clinical team, key Trust staff
April, May,
June 2015 / Participate in evaluation activity / Evaluation data / Trust project site clinical team, key Trust staff
Human Factors immersion event / Raised awareness of human factors approach / Teams from all Trusts
Programme team
Human factors training: HF ‘champion’ training / Cohort of staff trained in human factors / Key staff from project site clinical team and from across the Trust
July, August, September 2015 / HF champions support and coaching / Reinforcement of training / HF champions
Human factors training and implementation of key HF interventions / Implementation and adoption of key HF interventions / Trust project site clinical team
Continuing service improvement cycles and measurement / Service improvements / Trust project site clinical team
October, November, December 2015 / Continuing service improvement cycles and measurement / Service improvements / Trust project site clinical team
Participate in evaluation activity / Evaluation data / Trust project site clinical team, key Trust staff
January, February, March 2016 / Continuing service improvement cycles and measurement / Service improvements / Trust project site clinical team
Participate in evaluation activity / Evaluation data / Trust project site clinical team, key Trust staff
Sustainability planning / Project plan for further patient safety work / Trust project site clinical team, key Trust staff
April, May, June 2016 / Project close regional event: sharing learning, celebrating achievements, planning for dissemination / Shared learning with other project sites / Key team members and stakeholders