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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?

Spotlight Series 003-2025 National Specialty Quality Improvement Programmes - 2023 Summary Reports

In this instalment we shine a spotlight on the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI), National Specialty Quality Improvement (NSQI) Programmes 2023 Summary Reports in collaboration with HSE and patient partner representatives.

Spotlight Series 002-2025 Public consultation on Ireland’s next suicide reduction policy

In this instalment we shine a spotlight on the Department of Health’s open Public consultation on Ireland’s next suicide reduction policy. The Department of Health is working with the National Suicide Research Foundation who are providing expert advice on the public consultation process and who will support the development of the final report on the process.

Clinical Governance of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) in non Neuro-Surgical Centres (all acute hospitals)

This HSE National Patient Safety Alert (NPSA) is for action by those providing acute care to patients with a traumatic brain injury (TBI). This alert is supported by the resource "What does it mean for me as a patient or family member?"

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