What is PSIRF?
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) provides the NHS with guidance on how to respond to patient safety incidents – with no distinction between incidents and ‘serious incidents’ – for the purpose of learning. The PSIRF supercedes the Serious Incident Framework 2015 (SIF 2015), and provides guidance on how to respond to patient safety incidents, placing emphasis on appropriate investigations, trust-wide learning, proportionate responses, and systems-based change.
This paper outlines:
The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) provides the NHS with guidance on how to respond to patient safety incidents – with no distinction between incidents and ‘serious incidents’ – for the purpose of learning. The PSIRF supercedes the Serious Incident Framework 2015 (SIF 2015), and provides guidance on how to respond to patient safety incidents, placing emphasis on appropriate investigations, trust-wide learning, proportionate responses, and systems-based change.
This paper outlines:
- A background to the introduction of PSIRF and how it differs from the SIF 2015
- Key themes that we have seen in our PSIRF reviews of early adopters in the NHS sector
- PSIRF factors Audit and/or Quality Committees should consider, and good practice observed at other organisations. These are divided into three key areas:
- Organisation and governance
- Stakeholder Engagement and Culture
- Report emphasis
