Dear Colleague,

BARDOC are currently in the process of implementing the PSIRF.   The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) sets out the NHS’s approach to responding to Patient Safety Incidents, to ensure learning and to improve patient safety.

Patient Safety Incidents are ‘unintended or unexpected events (including omissions) in healthcare that could have or did harm one or more patients’.

The PSIRF replaces the Serious Incident Framework (SIF) 2015 and makes no distinction between ‘Patient Safety Incidents’ and ‘Serious Incidents’.  Therefore, the classification of a ‘Serious Incident’ has been removed and instead, the PSIRF promotes a proportionate approach to responding to Patient Safety Incidents by ensuring learning is balanced with delivering improvement.  The PSIRF approach is flexible and adaptable as organisations learn and improve, so they explore Patient Safety Incidents relevant to their context and the populations they serve.

Please access the video link below to complete the level one training.  This is a statutory requirement and needs to be completed by all BARDOC staff.  After watching the video please complete the feedback form as this will be used to record that you have completed the mandatory training.  This training needs completing by 5th April 2025.   Please contact your Line Manager if you have any issues with this deadline date. 

Staff who are required to complete level 2 training will be enrolled on Blue Stream to complete their training and an alert will be sent following the completion of the level one training.

Thank you very much for your continued support