NIHR Patient Safety & Service Quality Research Centres
The NIHR Patient Safety & Service Quality (PSSQ) Research Centres drive improvements in the safety, quality and effectiveness of the services the NHS provides to its patients and the public. The PSSQ Research Centres bring together NHS professionals with academic experts from a wide range of backgrounds, including management and the social sciences, to focus on investigating ways to improve the care of patients.
The two centres were selected through open competition by an international expert panel based on the quality of the bids they entered and their reputation for world class research, and launched in April 2007.
Patient Safety & Service Quality Research Centres
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PSSQ Research Centre name |
NHS Organisation |
Academic Partner |
Specialism |
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Imperial College Centre for PSSQ
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Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust |
Imperial College London |
Safety, quality, resilience and reliability of technology; effective use of information technology; the role of NHS managers and staff in enhancing patient safety. |
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King's PSSQ Research Centre
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King's College Hospital NHS Trust |
King's College London |
New and emerging health technologies; the organisation and management of health services and staff to reduce risk. |
Development Grants have also been awarded to two other NHS organisations to support their research on patient safety and service quality. The Lancaster Patient Safety Research Unit is a partnership between the University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and Lancaster University. The Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research (YQSR) Programme is a partnership between the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Universities of Leeds and York.
Funding
The total amount of funding allocated to the two Centres is £9.5m over five years. Development Grants awarded to University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Trust and the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are worth up to £800,000 over three years, making the total funding package worth more than £10m over five-years, from April 2007.
New competition
The funding for PSSQs is in its final year and a new open competition launched in July 2011 to select NIHR Patient Safety Translational Research Centres for the next five-year period starting from 1 August 2012.
An International Selection Panel will review full applications in February 2012, and the successful centres will be announced in the Spring.
NIHR Briefing document
4.9 Patient Safety and Service Quality Research Centres