Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch
Our purpose is to improve patient safety through effective and independent investigations that don’t apportion blame or liability.
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We conduct independent investigations of patient safety concerns in NHS-funded care across England. The safety recommendations we make aim to improve healthcare systems and processes in order to reduce risk and improve safety.
HSIB is funded by the Department of Health & Social Care and hosted by NHS England and NHS Improvement. We hope that when parliamentary time allows, we will be established as an independent public body.
Management of chronic health conditions in prisons
Each day around 120 prisoners with ongoing medication needs are moved between prisons.
Our latest investigation report identifies opportunities and remedies that could be applied across the system to reduce the risk of prisoners with long term, chronic conditions being moved without crucial medication.
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Partial set up of electronic medication systems in NHS puts patients at risk
Poorly implemented electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems can result in potentially fatal medication errors, our new report warns today.
Investigations
We undertake patient safety investigations through two programmes - national investigations and maternity investigations. In our national programme we investigate up to 30 patient safety concerns each year in order to provide meaningful safety recommendations.
Our teams work closely with patients, families and healthcare staff affected by patient safety incidents and we never attribute blame or liability to individuals.
We welcome information about patient safety concerns from everyone, including patients and their families, the public, NHS staff and organisations.