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Patient Safety Together: learning, sharing and improving

We share up-to-date patient safety information to help improve our health service for everyone, including healthcare workers, service users and clients.

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What's New?

Preventing Extravasation / Tissue Infiltration Injury

This Patient Safety Supplement aims to raise awareness among patients and healthcare staff of the risk of extravasation or tissue infiltration injury during intravenous (IV) treatment.

HSE Patient Safety Digest - June to September 2024

This HSE Patient Safety Digest contains journal articles, reports and information relating to patient safety. The content was sourced by the HSE Health Library Ireland Services and the HPRA in collaboration with the HSE National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate – Incident Management Team.

Diagnosis - Get it right, make it safe!

The theme of the World Health Organization (WHO) World Patient Safety Day 2024 is “Improving diagnosis for patient safety” supported by the slogan “Get it right, make it safe!” This Patient Safety Supplement is a first instalment in a short series on improving diagnosis for patient safety.

HSE National Patient Safety Alerts

HSE National Patient Safety Alerts are high-priority communications issued in relation to critical patient safety issues. Each alert is supported by a resource for those who use our health service 'What does it mean for me as a patient or service user?'
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Patient Safety Supplements

Patient safety supplements share relevant quality and patient safety information for learning purposes and to raise awareness.
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Patient Safety Stories

Patient safety stories give voice to the experience of both patients/service users and staff who have been involved in, or impacted by patient safety issues.
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Just Culture - staff experience

This is the story of a staff nurse involved in an incident and the lessons learned when incidents o…

My journey as a patient - a staff member story

This is a story from a staff member who became a patient in the service where she worked.

A paediatric medication error - a staff story

This is Barry’s story where he explains the impact a medication error on a paediatric patient had up

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Further Learning and Information

Patient Safety Community

We are building a national community for staff working in quality and patient safety in the HSE/HSE-funded services