The PHA Nursing and Allied Health Professions Directorate is responsible for:

• professional, service and public health issues relating to nursing, midwifery, health visiting and the Allied Health Professions (AHPs);
• the Health and Social Care Safety Forum;
• the Centre for Connected Health and Social Care.

Through the Directorate, the PHA provides:

The Health Foundation

The Health Foundation is an independent charity working to continuously improve the quality of healthcare in the UK.

www.health.org.uk

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is an independent not-for profit organisation based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. IHI focuses on:

Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship

This year celebrates 10 years of the Scottish Quality and Safety Fellowship. The Fellowship supports healthcare staff to learn about leadership and how to improve the delivery of safe patient care. 

This year’s annual networking event, Thinking Differently, Inspiring Excellence was held in Edinburgh and attended by over 100 current and previous SQSF Fellows and Health and Social Care leaders from the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia. 

The HSC Safety Forum has themed its work for quality and safety in healthcare under four main headings. Relevant papers and articles are listed below under these themes. In addition, a further section for general documents on patient safety-related areas has also been included.