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Government publishes details of how the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch was set up (21 March 2016)
Date: 21/03/2016
The government has published details of how the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) was set up, in a speech written in March 2015 and now published.
NHS England's Director of Patient Safety, Dr Mike Durkin, writes about the work to establish the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, which will operate from April 2016 to offer support and guidance to NHS organisations on investigations – and will also carry out certain investigations itself.
Dr Durkin said the process of setting up the body to deal with patient safety involved face-to-face discussions with people involved in investigations – patients, families and staff – and included a roundtable event with clinicians.
He revealed that some of the views which emerged from discussions included both patients and staff stressing that patients and their families should be at the heart of investigations, as well as the need to feel safe to participate.
Patients and staff wanted to be “treated with honesty and compassion” – and wanted the processes to be transparent, with the process focusing on learning from safety incidents in the NHS and investigating system-wide failures to develop and recommend solutions.
Dr Durkin said that he was “confident and more convinced than ever” that the work of the Expert Advisory Group and its stakeholders in setting up the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch would make “a real difference” to patients, families and NHS staff.
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