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In Spring 2021, a new national Patient Safety Incident Management System (PSIMS) will enter its public beta stage. The new system will be phased in to replace the current National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS). Its aim is to maximise the NHS\u2019s ability to learn from when things go wrong. In this, the first in a series of blogs from Lucie Mussett, PSIMS product owner, Lucie provides an introduction to PSIMS and some of the key features it will bring to support the NHS to make care safer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recording safety events, whether they result in harm or not, provides vital insight into what can go wrong in healthcare and how these events happen. This is why over 16 years ago, the NHS launched the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS); a world-first as a single national system receiving incident reports from across a nation\u2019s healthcare providers, allowing for patterns, trends, and new risks to the safety of patients be identified at a national level.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the dedication of many thousands of healthcare staff who\u2019ve shared information when things have gone wrong, the NRLS has grown to a database of\u00a0over 20 million incident reports<\/a>, providing a rich vein of patient safety data. It has formed the backbone of the NHS national patient safety team\u2019s ability to rapidly identify and respond to national-level safety risks, leading to\u00a0hundreds of interventions to support the NHS to keep patients safe<\/a>, and provides vital insight for long-term patient safety improvement programmes.<\/p>\n

Sixteen years on, despite the NRLS\u2019s undoubted success, today\u2019s NHS needs a new and improved system that better represents changes to the way care is delivered in the modern healthcare landscape, and takes full advantage of advances in technology so we can maximise opportunities for learning.<\/p>\n

Responding to the challenge, we\u2019ve undertaken a programme of extensive development, working with patients and staff from all health and care settings, to create the new\u00a0Patient Safety Incident Management System (PSIMS)<\/a>. The system will begin its public beta phase during Spring 2021, meaning some providers (those with compatible local reporting systems) will be able to start uploading the safety events their staff report onto PSIMS, instead of the NRLS. And staff working in smaller organisations without a local risk management system, such as in primary care, will be able to start recording safety events directly onto PSIMS using a web account and new and improved online forms.<\/p>\n

Once fully functional, PSIMS will introduce improved capabilities for the analysis of patient safety events occurring across healthcare. For example, it will:<\/p>\n