The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) is a fully independent arm's length body of the Department of Health and Social Care. HSSIB came into operation on 1 October 2023. It investigates patient safety concerns across the NHS in England and in independent healthcare settings where safety learning could also help to improve NHS care.[1]
It aims to produce rigorous, non-punitive, and systematic patient safety investigations and to develop system-wide safety recommendations for learning and improvement. It is separate from processes that seek to allocate blame, liability, or punishment.