Facilitator Handbook 2005 - PRIMIS

Data Quality and Patient Safety
PRIMIS Facilitator Handbook
Patient safety in the GMS Contract
• Clinical quality indicators and those identified for additional services all support
patient care and patient safety
• Organisational indicators also identify issues that are related to patient safety,
specifically in records and information about patients and medicines management
• Some contractual and statutory requirements are also relevant to patient safety.
Further information on the background and subject matter included in this training is available
in the form of a workbook. This is provided to facilitators during the training.
Learning Objectives
The training will provide information facilitators with:
• an awareness of the role of the National Patient Safety Agency
• an understanding of the potential impact of data quality on patient safety
• an awareness of the functionality of safety features inherent in GP clinical computer
systems as identified by the University of Nottingham’s research
• an awareness of the range of tools used to identify areas of risk to patient safety
• an understanding of the knowledge required to support practices to improve data
quality and implement change.
References and further reading
PRIMIS Guidelines
www.primis.nottingham.ac.uk/pages/download_template.asp?r=Guidelines_Sept01.pdf
New GMS Contract 2003 – Investing in General Practice
www.nhsconfed.org
National Patient Safety Agency
www.npsa.nhs.uk
An Organisation with a memory, Department of Health, 2000.
Seven steps to Patient safety: A guide for NHS Staff, National Patient Safety Agency, 2003.
Yantis G, Lownhaupt, M. This time it’s personal. E-Health Insider. 19 Jan 2005.
www.e-health-insider.com/comment_and_analysis/index.cfm?ID=45
Protti DJ. Computers Can Reduce Errors And Improve Patient Safety.
www.informatics.nhs.uk/item/1225
Avery AJ, Savelyich BS, Teasdale S. Improving the safety features of general practice
computer systems. Informatics in Primary Care. 2003; 11:203-6.
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