Area of Focus: Patient safety

Health Innovation Kent Surrey Sussex

Improving the management of deterioration. Promoting the Prevention, Identification, Escalation and Response (PIER) framework, which helps systems to take a consistent approach to physical deterioration and working to support the delivery of Martha’s Rule.

15 Oct 2025

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Creating optimal conditions for patient safety improvement across health and integrated care systems. This includes the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and Patient Safety Collaborative Safety Networks.

12 Sep 2024

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Supporting maternity and neonatal professionals to improve the optimisation and stabilisation of pre-term infants and the early recognition and management deterioration in women and babies. We also support the Perinatal Culture and Leadership programme as part of this workstream, continuing to sustainably develop leadership capacity, capability and improvement relating to safety culture in our local trusts.

12 Sep 2024

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Patient Safety Collaborative programme supporting healthcare professionals to improve chronic non-cancer pain management by reducing high-risk opioid prescribing.

11 Sep 2024

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The national patient safety improvement programme aims to test and spread effective safety interventions and strategies, learn from excellence and support systems to continuously improve.

4 Sep 2024

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Martha’s Rule is currently being rolled out across the NHS, with Health Innovation Networks leading on implementation guidance and support for regional NHS Trusts. In this article, we share an update on our progress and invaluable insights from our pilot programmes in Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

Blog

10 Sep 2025

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Martha’s Rule is now available in every acute hospital in England, the NHS has announced.

News

5 Sep 2025

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A multidisciplinary simulation-based training programme was developed to support perinatal teams across Kent, Surrey, and Sussex (KSS).

Case Study

3 Jul 2025

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