Safe and Sound aims to support quality of service for all stakeholders.
Busy clinicians are offered decision support with rapid access to current research and evidence, helping them to maintain consistently high quality, safe care even when clinical demands are heavy. They will also be better informed about the decisions and actions of other colleagues involved in a patient's care and the rationales for their decisions.
Patients will be able to review their treatment options, and see the pros and cons of those options as they relate to their individual circumstances. This will foster informed consent and empower those patients who wish to influence their care based on their personal values and preferences, resulting in greater patient satisfaction.
From the healthcare organisation’s perspective, better dissemination of knowledge and more consistent compliance with clinical and service guidelines can increase efficiency as well as improving outcome and safety of the healthcare process.
If such services are implemented using ICT then we can routinely capture decisions and outcomes and maintain better records of safety-related and other incidents for clinical audit. These will make a major contribution to establishing the organisational memory called for by the Chief Medical Officer of the NHS, helping to reduce repeated adverse events and the risk of litigation.
More details about benefits are here.
