S.A.F.E Team Perspectives

S.A.F.E teams have shown how the safety huddle can enable healthcare professionals to communicate effectively, and recognise and respond to the deteriorating child in a timely way.

A specific intervention that brings together the key elements of situation awareness, teams have used safety huddles to provide a mechanism for ensuring that all information about a patient is shared effectively.

Once the intervention has been implemented, teams have also evaluated their work. This has allowed them to evidence the successes and encourage the spread of their work more widely across other wards, hospitals, Trusts, and regions around them.

Watch teams who have completed the S.A.F.E programme share their experiences and reflect on their journeys.

S.A.F.E at the Royal Free Hospital

Dr Jane Runnacles and her team describe their work aimed at improving patient safety on a general paediatric ward at the Royal Free Hospital London, which was an original pilot site for the S.A.F.E Programme. Their unit is a children’s inpatient ward within a busy North London teaching hospital serving a diverse population, with approximately 1,200 admissions annually.

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