Our team includes frontline clinicians and policy makers and academics from scientific disciplines ranging from computer science and engineering to psychology and anthropology.

 

We have a strong voice from patients and public, representing the full diversity of our population.

 

We will create an Academy to support the next generation of patient safetyresearchers throughout their careers, from PhD students through to professors. UCL/UCLH has a uniquely rich research environment, and we want to expand our already collaborative approach, to work with clinicians and patients nationally, to deliver research which is of the highest quality, relevance and impact for the whole population which the NHS serves.

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​Our credentials

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UCL/UCLH is well-positioned to lead a PSRC in this area, as we are ranked #1 (Web of Science) for research inanaesthesia/perioperative/acute/critical care. Our team developed the NEWS and NEWS2 scores which are used across the NHS to detect and prevent deterioration, along with the SORT-risk model nationally recommended in major surgery. Our research has led directly to two new Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) incentives for the 22/23 financial year (see case studies). We have led practice and policy changing evaluations of major service changes (e.g. the NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) COVID oximetry@home programme). We are at the forefront of technological advances in patient safety, through the UCL Wellcome EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences [WEISS] & industry partnerships including with Edwards Lifesciences.

 

Locally, critical care researchers at UCLH established our unique Experimental Medicine Application Platform (EMAP) which provides a 'live' shadow version of our Trust-wide complete electronic healthcare record (EHR) Epic. This means that researchers have access to millions of live data-points which can be analysed in real-time without information governance, operational or clinical risk. We have delegation from the Health Research Authority to conduct anonymised data science research without external (to UCLH) ethics review. This infrastructure provides us with a unique opportunity to explore patient safety issues related to EHR implementation (important, given that digital improvement is a priority of the NHS Long Term Plan and the NHS Digital Clinical Safety Strategy), and exploit the digital opportunity for patent safety innovation. Our ambition with our SaferSPACE collaborative is to extend the academic advantages of this infrastructure to benefit clinicians and researchers across the country and thereby, patients across the NHS.