Incident reporting policy - Homerton University Hospital

ReportQuality Audit ensuring that allindividuals who are affected byviolence and aggression orwho have suffered personalinjury have received a letter offormal support from the TrustReview of Datix(all formalnotificationsshould beappended toincident)QuarterlyRiskManagementDepartmentPatient Safety Committee.24.0 Associated Policies and Procedures• Being open Policy• Child protection / Vulnerable Adults• Disciplinary Policy• Health & Safety Policy• Incident Investigation Guidelines• Serious Untoward Incident Policy• Strategy and Policy for Managing Risk• Whistle Blowing Policy25.0 References• Department of Health, (2006) Guidelines for the NHS: In support of the Memorandum ofUnderstanding - Investigating patient safety incidents involving unexpected death or serious untowardharm• Department of Health, Association of Chief Police Officers, Health & Safety Executive (2006)Memorandum of understanding• Health & Safety Executive (1995) Reporting of Injuries, Diseases & Dangerous OccurrencesRegulations• Memorandum of Understanding• National Patient Safety Agency (2002) Building a safer NHS.• National Patient Safety Agency (2003) Seven steps to patient safety.• National Patient Safety Agency (2004) Root cause analysis toolkit.• National Patient Safety Agency (2005) Communicating patient safety incidents with patients an theircarers.• NPSA RCA Toolkit: www.msnpsa.nhs.uk/rcatoolkit/resources/ resource_glossary.htm#• NPSA‟ RCA Investigation Report Template‟ and „RCA Investigation Evaluation - thoroughness andcredibility checklist‟Page 27 of 47