Patient safety and quality improvement

Sustainability in healthcare for foundation doctors – 11 March 2026

Suggested curriculum mapping: Core learning topic – Quality improvement methodology
 
Summary: The panel explored sustainability and planetary health in the context of foundation doctors. The panel also discussed what sustainability and planetary health mean, what the Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC) is, what sustainability in healthcare looks like and how foundation doctors can get involved.

• Recording: Sustainability in Healthcare for Foundation Doctors – watch on YouTube
• Slides: Webinar slides for ‘Sustainability in Healthcare for Foundation Doctors’

Patient safety – an introduction for foundation doctors – April 2025

Suggested curriculum mapping: Core learning topic – Patient safety

Summary: This webinar explored the topic of patient safety and the current frameworks available to guide foundation doctors (FDs) in addressing patient safety incidents. The aim was to empower FDs to champion a culture of compassion at the workplace and to reflect on how to collectively minimise patient harm.

• Recording: ‘Patient safety – an introduction for foundation doctors’ – watch on YouTube
• Slides:
  • Webinar slides for ‘Patient safety – an introduction for foundation doctors’ – Curriculum requirements
  • Webinar slides for ‘Patient safety – an introduction for foundation doctors’ – FD perspective
  • Webinar slides for ‘Patient safety – an introduction for foundation doctors’ – PSIRF

Safe prescribing – introduction to curriculum requirements and SCRIPT – August 2024

Suggested curriculum mapping: FPC4: Communication and care

Summary: This webinar explored the FP curriculum requirements around safe prescribing, how safe prescribing might be evidenced in your e-portfolio and the SCRIPT e-learning platform, which all UK foundation doctors have access to.

• Recording: ‘Safe prescribing – introduction to curriculum requirements and SCRIPT’ – watch on YouTube
• Slides:
  • Webinar slides for ‘Safe prescribing – introduction to curriculum requirements and SCRIPT’ – Introduction
  • Webinar slides for ‘Safe prescribing – introduction to curriculum requirements and SCRIPT’ – Evidencing prescribing in e-portfolio
  • Webinar slides for ‘Safe prescribing – introduction to curriculum requirements and SCRIPT’ – e-learning and SCRIPT

Sustainability in healthcare webinar – January 2024

Suggested curriculum mapping: Core learning topic – Quality improvement methodology

Summary: This webinar focused on sustainability in healthcare, and specifically sustainable quality improvement (QI).

• Recording: ‘Sustainability in healthcare’ – watch on YouTube
• Slides: Webinar slides for ‘Sustainability in healthcare’