The visit began with an introduction to Health Innovation Manchester by our Chief Executive Ben Bridgewater, Managing Director Amanda Risino with Jay Hamilton, Associate Director of Health & Implementation and Patient Safety Collaborative Lead

The guests were then introduced to the team and given overview of the work taking place in the patient safety collaborative across the different workstreams – Adoption and Spread, Maternity and Neonatal, Medicines Optimisation and Deterioration.

Bradley Quinn, Insight and Intelligence Lead at Health Innovation Manchester, explained how we are utilising data in Greater Manchester to inform and articulate our work while Senior Communications Officer Lucy Williams explained the communications approaches taken with sharing knowledge and information across our system.

During a networking lunch, Aidan Fowler addressed guests from Health Innovation Manchester and partner organisations about the patient safety strategy and how Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) and Patient Safety Collaboratives are “critical” to improving patient safety in the NHS.

Following a networking lunch, the guests then heard presentations from key innovations and partners the patient safety collaborative is working with. This included falls prevention app Safe Steps, the  Greater Manchester smokefree pregnancy project, monitoring frailty within those requiring emergency laparotomy surgery, and utilising the myCOPD app to improve self care for those with COPD.