 Based in London, England, the Health Foundation is an independent charity that aims to improve the quality of health care for the people of the United Kingdom.The Safer Patients Initiative, one of the Foundation's quality and performance improvement programmes, targets reducing medication-related adverse events and errors, reducing infections associated with intensive care units or surgery and improving organisational culture, leadership and expertise in measuring improvement.The goal of the initiative is a 50 percent reduction in adverse events per 1,000 patient days for each site.