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What is PSIRF?

March 26, 2024

The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) will replace the Serious Incident Framework from Monday 1 April.

The key differences include:

  • No more serious incidents, concise reviews, or 72-hour reports
  • Compassionate engagement and involvement of all involved including patients and families
  • A system-based approach to shared learning and improvement
  • Considered and proportionate responses using a range of new information gathering tools
  • Avoidance of blame and the capture work as done, rather than imagined

The PSIRF tools include:

  • SWARM huddle (link to template)
  • After-Action Review (AAR) (link to template)
  • Multi-Disciplinary Team meeting (MDT) (link to template)
  • Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) for in-depth investigations

More information on each PSIRF tool will be provided in the following weeks.

Be sure to check out this video for further details: