SLO 11 – Participate in and promote activity to improve the quality and safety of patient care

Domain 1: Professional values and behaviours

Domain 2: Professional skills

• practical skills
• communication and interpersonal skills
• dealing with complexity and uncertainty
• clinical skills (history taking, diagnosis and medical management; consent; humane interventions; prescribing medicines safely; using medical devices safely; infection control and communicable disease)

Domain 3: Professional knowledge 

• professional requirements
• national legislative requirements
• the health service and healthcare systems in the four countries

Domain 4: Capabilities in health promotion and illness prevention

Domain 5: Capabilities in leadership and teamworking

Domain 6: Capabilities in patient safety and quality improvement

• patient safety
• quality improvement

Key ACCS capabilities

At completion of ACCS a trainee will:

• be able to contribute effectively to a departmental quality improvement project

Key EM capabilities

At completion of Intermediate training a trainee will:

• be able to describe their involvement and show an understanding of QI methods and reflect on a Quality Improvement Project they have been involved in

At completion of Higher training a trainee will:

• be able to provide clinical leadership on effective Quality Improvement work
• be able to support and develop a culture of departmental safety and good clinical governance

Intermediate & Higher Descriptors 

• Makes patient safety a priority in clinical practice
• Raises and escalates concerns where there is an issue with patient safety or quality of care
• Demonstrates commitment to learning from patient safety investigations and complaints
• Shares good practice appropriately
• Contributes to and delivers quality improvement
• Understands basic Human Factors principles and practice at individual, team, organisational and system levels
• Understands the importance of non-technical skills and crisis resource management
• Recognises and works within limit of personal competence
• Avoids organising unnecessary investigations or prescribing poorly evidenced treatments