Here you can find examples of the work done within the Safer Salford programme.
Exploring the collaborative behaviour change, risk stratification and risk sharing required across primary care and specialist mental health and neurology services in order to reduce prescribing of sodium valproate.
The Adult Social Care (ASC) commissioning and market management team asked Aqua to support them to measure the quality of life (QoL) for adults in the Salford social care system.
The Salford City Council Public Health (PH) team asked Aqua to support some locality community leaders and public health team to design and deliver aspects of the Community Leaders Development Programme.
As part of our 23/24 Safer Salford programme, NHS Greater Manchester (Salford Locality) asked Aqua to provide quality improvement (QI) support to a new primary care health inequalities improvement programme within the 2023/2024 Salford Standards.
Safety 60 was co-designed by Primary Care Patient Safety Leads following a safety culture survey with the leads in 2022. Aqua facilitated an initial session to explore the safety issues most impacting primary care (such as medicines management, communication, managing waiting lists and health inequalities).
In August 2022, NHS England (NHSE) in Greater Manchester (GM) made funding available to improve access and reduce inequalities associated with COVID-19 vaccination during the winter of 2022/23. The Salford Public Health team submitted a successful bid on behalf of Greater Manchester Integrated Care (Salford) and the programme commenced in October 2022.
Read all about the Safer Salford Lived Experience Panel (LEP), which was established in 2021 and since then has taken an active role in Salford quality improvement workstreams.
As part of the GM Primary Care Reform Programme (2017-2020), funding was allocated for primary care in Salford to support workflow optimisation, and this included developing care navigation across primary care. The Safer Salford team at Aqua worked with key stakeholders to gain an understanding of the current state, and to understand and synthesise best practice.
An Introduction to the new Salford Safeguarding and harms levels document, a presentation from GMP about their role in safeguarding investigations, information shared by the Contact and REVEC teams about safeguarding processes, useful contact details shared so providers know where to go if they are experiencing any issues, feedback from providers to share good practice and lessons learnt and advice desk drop-in session for any providers who wanted to speak 1-2-1 with the safeguarding team.
Case Study: A Partnership for Safer Care: The Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust
Case Study: Working in Partnership – The Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) and The Society for Acute Medicine
Patient safety and the new NHS Quality Strategy: A blog from Aqua and Patient Safety Learning
Dr Simon Moralee joins the Advancing Quality Alliance
Looking Back at 2025: 12 Highlights Across 12 Days
Aqua appointed to NHS Shared Business Services Framework for Audit Services
