Our mission is to improve the health and wealth of the nation, and to reduce health inequalities, through research aimed at reducing harm in SPACE specialities (Surgical, Perioperative, Acute, and Critical carE), which can be translated to other clinical services. 

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Our aims are:

• To support the NHS Patient Safety agenda and the NHS Digital Patient Safety strategy, through collaborative research which leads to safer services, systems, technologies and organisations

• To deliver efficient, cost-effective and generalisable research across a range of scientific disciplines, using cutting edge innovative methods

• To develop future leaders in patient safety research through our approach to training and education

• To empower patients to improve the quality of patient safety research through coproduction

• To address inequalities in patient safety through a collaborative, patient-centred and inclusive approach to research and development