Tips for a Successful Patient Safety Huddle

Tips for a Successful Patient Safety Huddle

Commitment to Continuous Quality Improvement requires regular communication on quality and safety issues. An important way of helping achieve this is through dedicated ‘Patient Safety Huddles’ or ‘Patient Safety Review Meetings’.   A huddle is a short stand-up meeting and can be an effective method of communicating important safety issues in time-poor environments such as healthcare organisations. It is often held before the start of the workday. The frequency, format and length of the huddle will vary based on practice setting, level of risk associated with the services offered and team size. The huddle…Read more …