NIHR Greater Manchester PSRC

The Greater Manchester PSRC has a clear vision: to provide the best possible evidence to ensure safe delivery of care.

Our aim is to deliver cutting edge research to make health and care systems safer, especially for those people, families, and communities with the greatest needs for improvement in patient safety. This will enhance outcomes and patient experience and save the NHS money.

We will work in partnership with patients, carers and service users to ensure that their lived experience is embedded in all of our research.

Our four research Themes address major safety concerns for patients and service users, practitioners (doctors, nurses, and other health and care professionals), and organisations. The themes are: 1. Improving medication safety to prevent patients from being harmed by medicines 2. Enhancing cultures of safety so that people and organisations are continually improving ways of working 3.

Developing safer health and care systems to improve how multiple health and care providers work together to deliver care safely 4.

Preventing suicide and self-harm by identifying and developing innovative interventions to reduce these risks We bring together a large team experienced researchers from Manchester, Nottingham and Leicester with a wide variety of skills.

Our strong links and partnerships across the North West and East Midlands regions provides access to diverse populations with greater health and social needs and inequities.

This means that we have the expertise and experience to identify important patient safety risks and challenges, and the skills to conduct the research to address them. Our research strategy involves: 1.

Working closely with patients, public and care providers to develop new patient safety interventions to improve safety across health and care systems. 2.

Supporting patients, carers, service users, health and social care professionals to use these interventions to improve safety. 3.

Studying the patient safety impacts of alternative ways of delivering care, including unexpected benefits and negative consequences of service changes. 4.

Ensuring that our research produces improvements that are affordable, feasible, and that they can improve safety throughout the country, particularly for those individuals, families and communities who need it most.

We will do everything possible to attract and recruit people from all walks of life to our workforce and give them high-quality training and support to further their careers with us so that they become the patient safety research leaders of the future.

We will share our expertise and facilitate strong patient engagement and collaboration with local, national, and international partners. We will respond to safety challenges as integrated health and social care systems evolve.

Working closely with health and social care staff, charities, industry, patients and communities, we will discuss, make sense of, and apply our findings. We will broadcast our results far and wide.

This way of working will create a hub of expertise with the power to carry out world-leading patient safety research and bring about rapid change in health and social care.