The Scottish Patient Safety Paediatric Programme (SPSPP) was established in summer 2009 and aims to support paediatric staff in Scotland to improve the quality and safety of paediatric healthcare.  This Programme has been aligned and integrated with the Scottish Patient Safety Programme, to develop a sustainable infrastructure for quality improvement, throughout NHS boards in Scotland.

SPSPP worked with IHI to establish the overarching aims of the programme, as well as driver diagrams and change packages for each of the paediatric workstreams. The SPSPP was launched on the 17 June 2010 by Shona Robison, Minister for Public Health and Sport.  At this event, the aims, goals and measures of the Programme, were presented to the paediatric community, along with an introduction to the improvement methodology, used to support the implementation of SPSP and SPSPP.  

The key objective of the Paediatric Programme is to reduce adverse events by 30% by June 2013; this will be measured using the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s Paediatric Trigger Tool.  The infrastructure to support this will be established in NHS boards by the end of December 2010. 

Details of the measurement plan for SPSPP are available on this website and the paediatric measures (prefixed ‘PPD’) are available for Teams to access on the IHI Extranet; to begin reporting data.   

If you require any further information or assistance regarding SPSPP please contact:

Julie Adams, National Facilitator Paediatrics, julie.adams5@nhs.net

Elaine Mackay, Project Officer, elaine.mackay@nhs.net