Collaborators and partners

At the centre of SaferSPACE is the UCLH/UCL collaboration.

Around this, a regional partnership delivered through UCL Partners (UCLP) is enable us to work with patients and clinicians across a wide geography in North and East London reaching out to Essex. This is one of the most ethnically and economically diverse regions of the UK; representatives of partner Trusts at our NHS engagement panel ensure that our plans remain inclusive.

We have also invited participation from clinicians and academics who are experts in patient safety from each of the seven regions in the English NHS and from Wales, to both increase the diversity of experience and knowledge in our collaboration and to support implementation throughout these regions.

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Nationally, we have partnered with the Health Services Research Centre at the Royal College of Anaesthetists (HSRC@RCoA). Led until April 2022 by the SaferSPACE proposed director, the HSRC@RCoA conducts research into patient safety and quality in every UK NHS hospital; this partnership, therefore, further ensures that our research has the potential to meet the needs of all NHS patients irrespective of geography, deprivation, ethnicity or other protected characteristics. We are working with them both to develop ideas and projects, and to source NHS Trusts with whom to partner in research delivery.

We have leveraged existing partnerships including with the Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences (WEISS) which is providing a pipeline of innovations which we can evaluate in our Safer Technology theme. We have built on established industry partnerships including with Microsoft Research and Edwards Lifesciences, to develop and evaluate new approaches to patient safety, particularly harnessing the digital opportunity.