Patient safety resources for the work you are doing now

A Practical Guide for Nurses Navigating the NHS and Beyond

For Nurses, Clinicians, Students, Educators, Healthcare Teams

What’s inside

• Human factors and their role in patient harm
• Communication, handover and escalation
• Incident reporting and learning from events
• Medication safety and error prevention
• PSIRF, duty of candour and speaking up
• Safety culture and psychological safety

Buy the Complete Bundle (opens in a new tab) Read a Sample (PDF), Patient Safety 101 (opens in a new tab) View References

A practitioner workbook and implementation guide for learning from patient safety incidents

For Patient Safety Leads, Quality Teams, Ward Managers, NHS Organisations

What’s inside

• Step-by-step guidance through the CASCADE safety learning system
• Structured templates for capturing and analysing safety intelligence
• Action planning tools that move beyond weak recommendations
• Progress tracking and implementation monitoring

Read a Sample (PDF), CASCADE Workbook (opens in a new tab) About the CASCADE System

Because silence is not a safety strategy.

For Nurses, Clinicians, Team Leaders, Freedom to Speak Up Guardians

What’s inside

• Why healthcare professionals stay silent, and the cost
• Practical frameworks for raising concerns safely
• The CLEAR Standard for safe escalation
• Patient advocacy and duty of candour
• Building psychological safety on your team

The CLEAR Standard is a five-step sequence for escalating a clinical concern safely: Communicate the concern, Loop back if it is not resolved, Escalate to the next level, Account for what occurred, and Report through formal routes. It complements SBAR: SBAR structures the message, CLEAR structures the escalation. The one-page quick reference is free to download, with no sign-up.

Helping internationally educated nurses navigate safety, culture and practice.

For Internationally Educated Nurses, Preceptors, Educators, NHS HR & Workforce Teams

What’s inside

• Understanding patient safety in the UK NHS context
• Navigating cultural transitions in clinical practice
• Speaking up and raising concerns in a new system
• Protecting your NMC registration
• Building confidence and professional identity
• Practical frameworks: Understand, Navigate, Speak Up, Practice

Support after incidents matters.

For All Healthcare Staff, Team Leaders, Managers, Wellbeing Leads, HR Teams

What’s inside

• Understanding the second victim phenomenon
• The emotional and professional impact of incidents
• The road to recovery: a practical, compassionate roadmap
• When investigation processes add further harm
• Organisational responses that actually help
• Building peer support and psychological safety

For nurses, student nurses, ward managers, preceptors and practice assessors.

For Nurses, Student Nurses, Ward Managers, Preceptors, Practice Assessors, Educators