Keeping sick children in hospital SAFE from harm

摘要

In June the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) published a suite of resources developed through the Situation Awareness for Everyone (SAFE) programme. Led by the RCPH, this was a 2-year project held in conjunction with 28 hospitals including Great Ormond Street Hospital for children.The resulting resource pack (RCPH, 2016a) is primarily designed to offer children's units ways of enhancing their collective missions of protecting sick children from potential harms perpetrated by unrecognised clinical deterioration, among others.The SAFE resource pack aims to improve communication, building a safety-based culture and delivering better outcomes for children and young people, especially those in hospital.