The Manchester Patient Safety Framework (MaPSaF) from the NPSA is a tool to help NHS organisations and healthcare teams assess their progress in developing a safety culture.

The MaPSaF can be used to:

• facilitate reflection on patient safety culture
• stimulate discussion about the strengths and weaknesses of the patient safety culture
• reveal any differences in perception between staff groups
• help understand how a more mature safety culture might look
• help evaluate any specific intervention needed to change the patient safety culture