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
