Practical safety strategies for today and tomorrow

The most prominent and effective patient safety interventions have been targeted at the reliability of basic processes and largely followed a quality improvement model.  There are however many other ways of improving safety. 

• Effective intervention through a portfolio of customisable strategies: system interventions; risk control; improving the capacity to adapt, monitor and respond, and mitigation
• Splitting these strategies between improving overall quality and safety and managing risk
• Complementing these with short term safety strategies to manage pressures and rapid change through flexing resources, prioritisation and adaptive teamwork and leadership. 
• Effective management of risk through a broad portfolio of both short and long-term strategies which can be customised to different problems and different contexts