Harm free care

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.
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