Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Collaborative

There are 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives in England, each hosted by a Health Innovation Network.

In Yorkshire and the Humber, our Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) is delivered in partnership with the Improvement Academy and is led by a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, patient safety and quality improvement experts.

For 2026 to 2027 we are focusing on the following priority areas:

• Managing Deterioration and Martha’s Rule
• Maternity and Neonatal (MatNeoSIP) –  optimisation and stabilisation of the preterm infant, early recognition and management of deterioration in women and babies:  And Avoiding Brain Injuries in Childbirth
• Medicines Safety (MedSIP)  – Helping people with a learning disability, at risk of behaviour that challenges, avoid harm from psychotropic medicines.
• A new programme, Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) in General Practice, is currently being developed.

If you would like to get involved in the work or would like more information on this and previous years’ work, then please contact:

Jenny Hamer – Head of Portfolio and Patient Safety Lead

Melanie Johnson – Patient Safety Collaborative Programme Manager

Ellen Barnes – MedSIP Workstream Lead, Project Manager

Dr Lizzie Sweeting – Managing Deterioration and Martha’s Rule Workstream Lead

Helen Brown and Liz Watson – Maternity and Neonatal Workstream Leads