1. NHS Safety Thermometer Measuring harm at the point of care

2. Why use the Safety Thermometer? To measure harm at the bedside in a systematic way To ask the right questions about key outcomes To integrate measurement of harm in to your daily work To support patient care and patient experience To understand how things can be improved To measure across the health economy in any care setting A call to action for frontline healthcare professionals – staff at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust are using the NHS Safety Thermometer once per month to rapidly review the proportion of patients free from harm: matron Dylan Edwards with patient Kathryn Shuttleworth, and staff nurse Helen Gresty

3. Did you know that every year in England there are… 50,552 patients with pressure ulcers (category III&IV) like these 13,945 patient falls (with harm) 74,689 patients with catheters & infection You can make a difference! Together we can change this… Start counting today

4. Harm Free Care Pressure Ulcers VTEFalls Catheters and UTI Do you know how many patients are impacted by these harms in your organisation, caseload or ward? Join our growing community of people who want to know and what to change. Together we can achieve harm free care…. Measuring 4 Safety Outcomes together Which of these patients do you want to be?

5. Designed to be used by front line staff in any care setting - as part of patient care Minimises data collection burden– One day a month no more than 10 minutes per patient Immediate visual results – line charts at the click of a button Measurement for Improvement – get a baseline and track progress over time Patient level data on all four harms For case studies and success stories visit www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk Click Safety Express and Safety Thermometer NHS Safety Thermometer

6. The analyser tab allows you to produce line charts with your data at the click of a button The Safety Thermometer is an NHS excel tool which can be downloaded for free from http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/inter ventions/relatedprogrammes/safety-thermometer/ http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/inter ventions/relatedprogrammes/safety-thermometer/ The survey tab allows you to enter your data – this can also be printed The administrator tab allows you to merge data from different wards / caseloads / organisations The definitions tab contains operational definitions for the four harms

7. Safety Challenge Measuring Harm Free Care Check if your organisation has a Safety Thermometer lead & make contact Download materials from the patient safety first website Get ready Recruit your 4 survey teams / wards / caseloads Show them the Safety Thermometer survey Test the survey Start with 4 GO LIVE – do the survey CELEBRATE Look at your data using the analyser function Submit data We will contact you within a month of data submission Do the survey

8. What Next? Go to the Patient Safety First website www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk and click on Safety Express and then Safety Thermometer, or follow this link: http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/interve ntions/relatedprogrammes/safety-thermometer/ for all supporting information including: www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk http://www.patientsafetyfirst.nhs.uk/Content.aspx?path=/interve ntions/relatedprogrammes/safety-thermometer/ Safety Thermometer user case studies A monthly timetable with dates for data collection, submission and return A detailed ‘How to use the Safety Thermometer’ guide A step by step guide on how to analyse your Safety Thermometer data