The
aim of harm free care is the delivery of an absence of pressure ulcers, falls,
VTE and Catheter UTIs. It uses three
primary drivers to help improvement teams deliver harm free care.
Safety leadership is everyone’s role to drive the
plan forwards. Engage clinical and non-clinical teams in the work.
A reliable process has six steps; apply these steps
to: risk assessment of admission; catheter checks; skin checks; nutrition
assessment; hydration monitoring and medicines reconcilliation.
Seek to ensure 95% of patients have all the
equipment they need on arrival at their new care setting
Harm free care offers 10-step guide to
making harm free care happen. There are
also case studies, resources and audit tools.
Each primary driver has three secondary drivers. See the baseline audit tool for improvement team work out which of the secondary drivers will have the
biggest impact for change, and the NHS Safety
Thermometer to
measure harm and the proportion of patients that are ‘harm free’ during the
working day.