Safe

In making our services safe, we make sure that people are protected from avoidable physical, psychological and emotional harm; abuse, discrimination, neglect, and loss of human rights.

We demonstrate this by monitoring:

• staffing levels on our wards
• slips, trips and fallson our wards
• medication incidents in our services
• prescribing and administration errors
• patient pressure ulcers occurring in our care
• incidents involving ligatures and ligature points
• incidents involving actual physical violence to patients
• incidents relating to clients being absent without leave whilst under the Mental Health Act
• unexpected deaths of patients while in our care
• use of seclusion on our mental health wards
• use of restraint on our mental health wards
• the control of infection on our wards
• patient safety walkrounds on our hospital and mental health wards
• achievement in our sign up to safety campaign
• “never” events if they occur.

We publish all this information each quarter in the Trust Quality Report