Patient Safety Congress - Manchester

On 4-5 July, 1000 Lives Improvement attended the Patient Safety Congress in Manchester, attended by nearly 1000 delegates. This year’s theme was “At a time of rapid change, keep safety and quality a central focus”.

1000 Lives Improvement also delivered presentations on “Reducing harm: sepsis and AKI” and the work of the national OBS Cymru project - set up to reduce harm from postpartum haemorrhage in maternity care.
Chris Hancock (Programme Lead, Rapid Response to Acute Illness Learning Set RRAILS) speaking about the tools introduced to support early sepsis intervention across NHS Wales said: “It’s not about them being perfect, it’s about everyone having the same tools to enable them to do the job effectively”. Delegates flooded to the 1000 Lives Improvement stand to ask questions about the tools and many showed interest in adapting them in their areas.

Elinore Macgillivray (National Midwife Lead, OBS Cymru), introduced the Maternity Network Wales with a specific focus on OBS Cymru- the Obstetric Bleeding Strategy for Wales, and the year-long national Safer Pregnancy campaign (March 2017 – March 18) aimed at reducing stillbirth rates. 

She said: “It was a great opportunity to attend this year’s congress and a privilege to be invited to speak about improving quality and reducing harm in maternity care in Wales. The team met so many people with similar goals of improving services for expectant mothers across the UK, and we hope to connect with them in the future.”

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