Safety recommendation
HSSIB recommends that NHS England includes guidance on engaging temporary staff in learning responses within their 'engaging and involving patients, families and staff following a patient safety incident'. This should be developed in collaboration with providers of temporary staff to the NHS to help assist healthcare providers being able to fully investigate incidents from a systems perspective, enabling learning that can improve patient care.
Response:
When we published our guidance document: Engaging and involving patients, families and staff following a patient safety incident to accompany the publication of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework in August 2022, we made a commitment to revise the document based on feedback about implementation and emerging research findings from the Learn Together research programme. In March 2024 we reconvened our stakeholder group to commence the revision and are pleased to consider HSSIB’s recommendation as part of this work.
Response received on 2 May 2024.