SIRAN events and training
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Learning Across Boundaries in Patient Safety
SIRAN and the Invited Review Service (IRS) within the Royal College of Psychiatrists' College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) are pleased to host a joint face-to-face event on patient safety, which will be covering learning, quality improvement and looking beyond PSIRF.
The event details are:
Location: The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 21 Prescot Street, London, E1 8BB
Date: Tuesday 2 September 2025
Time: 9:30 - 4:30pm
Cost: £80 for staff working in a SIRAN member organisation, £115 for all other attendees
The event will cover a range of key note presentations including what we mean by learning, embedding quality in patient safety and looking beyond PSIRF with other learning tools in the devolved nations.
Who is this event for?
This meeting has been specifically designed for those in patient safety specialist roles and leadership roles within safety, for example, patient safety teams, medical directors, nursing directors, quality improvement leads.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with us at SIRAN@rcpsych.ac.uk
Peer Reviewer Training
Date and Time:
Wednesday 8 October 2025 - 2pm to 3.30pm. Please fill in our booking form to confirm your slot.
Reviewer training is a free event for staff from SIRAN member organisations. The training is a great learning experience for those who are interested in participating in the virtual peer reviews of organisations signed up to SIRAN.
We strongly encourage individuals organising and reviewing other members to attend this online training, which will cover the process of virtual peer reviews.
A poster outlining the benefits of becoming a peer reviewer can be found here (PDF).
Learning objectives
The training will give potential reviewers the opportunity to gain practical knowledge about how to conduct a peer review visit. The online training session will involve presentation and discussion to develop the skills of a reviewer.
By the end of the training participants will be able to:
- describe the overall peer review process
- deliver the role and responsibilities of a peer reviewer before, during and after the peer review
- troubleshoot and manage complaints and other difficulties that may arise during a peer review
- describe and promote the ethos of the SIRAN peer-reviews
- understand how to effectively carry out and participate in a virtual peer review.
The training is free to member services.
