The NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (NIHR YH PSRC) and is one of six centres in England funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). Our vision is to co-produce, implement and evaluate innovative solutions to make care safer for patients and their families.

NIHR Patient Safety Research Collaborations (PSRCs) are NHS/university partnerships in England that undertake high quality translational, applied and health services research on patient safety that addresses strategic patient safety challenges within the health and care system.

The PSRCs aim to develop, validate and test innovations, approaches and interventions that have the potential to lead to improvements in patient safety and the safety of health and care services. To support translation into practice, NHS/university partnerships consider the eventual setting where new interventions, innovations, approaches will be delivered and the wide range of services (including primary, secondary, tertiary, mental health and social care), settings, pathways, patients and service users.

A key emphasis underpinning all research themes is the reduction in inequalities in the safety of healthcare.

The NIHR funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth.

The NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration is a £5.8 million national centre for patient safety research funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration (PSRC) is part of the NIHR and hosted by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with the University of Leeds. We are hosted within the Yorkshire Quality and Safety Research Group. Together we engage staff and patients to deliver research that makes healthcare safer.

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