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Read moreWe started our work in 2017 as the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), whilst waiting for legislation to establish us as a fully independent non-departmental public body.
During this time HSIB was funded by the Department of Health and Social Care and hosted by the Trust Development Authority, then NHS Improvement and finally NHS England (due to mergers).
After the Health and Care Act 2022 was passed, between April 2022 and October 2023 HSIB went through a period of transformation to become the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB).
The main differences between HSIB and HSSIB are that:
HSIB carried out independent safety investigations into NHS-funded care across England through two programmes: national investigations and maternity investigations.
The HSIB maternity investigations programme is now hosted by the Care Quality Commission and is known as the Maternity and Newborn Safety Investigations (MNSI) programme. This is because the Health and Care Act 2022 does not make provision for maternity investigations under HSSIB.
Find out more about the legacy HSIB maternity investigations programme on the MNSI website.
HSSIB carries out an expanded programme of patient safety investigations. All investigations and reports published by HSIB are available on the patient safety investigations page.
National investigation reports and national learning reports published by HSIB are available on the patient safety investigations page.
Selected HSIB blogs and events are available in the news, events and blog section.
HSIB annual review:
HSIB maternity programme year in review:
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