Nurturing safety culture through everyday practices
MOMENTS - a framework of resources to nurture safety culture development through everyday practices together.
ABOUT
The everyday, little things we do make a difference to the care we provide to our service users and experiences of staff working in the NHS.
Understanding what and how we do these things is crucial to building positive safety cultures.
Safety culture is the the relationships, practices and values of EVERYONE in the NHS, performed EVERY DAY to provide COMPASSIONATE CARE for all.
But, finding the time to work out what we are doing well in our teams and making ‘safety culture’ tangible can seem overwhelming.
Moments is a framework to explore local safety cultures through everyday practices. We have designed a practical and easy to run workshop for healthcare professionals to support local safety culture improvement.
RESEARCH
MOMENTS has been developed out of research carried out by the SAPPHIRE (Social science APPlied Healthcare and Improvement REsearch) group, University of Leicester, on what makes a good safety culture, drawing on the experiences of ten maternity and neonatal services across England.
The project was a positive enquiry, identifying strengths without only focussing on mistakes, accidents or incidents, and exploring what contributes to a good safety culture.
RESOURCES
The Facilitator Guide, handouts and worksheets are designed to support healthcare teams to take next steps with their clinical teams, in response to their local Safety Culture survey report.
They consist of a series of exercises that teams can use to work with their teams to better understand their own local safety cultures.
This resource is designed to help leaders and teams understand both what is happening in their service around safety, but more importantly why this is happening and what it means for the implementation of more formal safety work.
NEED HELP?
If you would like more information on MOMENTS in practice please contact england.perinatalcultureleadership@nhs.net.
For more information about the research behind MOMENTS please contact nicola.mackintosh@leicester.ac.uk.