Respondents' characteristics
| Respondents' characteristics | N (%) 41 (100%) | |
| Healthcare organisation | Trust A | 10 (24.4%) |
| Trust B | 11 (26.8%) | |
| Trust C | 11 (26.8%) | |
| Trust D | 9 (22.0%) | |
| Level of role in terms of proximity to front-line services | Board level or reporting to board | 18 (43.9%) |
| Clinical frontline | 23 (56.1%) | |
| No of years in current role | Mean | 5.62 |
| Median | 5.60 | |
| Range | 1.00 to 25.00 | |
| Principal safer patients initiative work area responsibility | Leadership | 9 (22.0%) |
| Perioperative | 7 (17.1%) | |
| Critical care | 4 (9.8%) | |
| Medicine management | 7 (17.1%) | |
| General ward care | 9 (22.0%) | |
| General coordination | 5 (12.2%) | |