We want to create the setting that allows individuals to take the initiative to benefit themselves and society as a whole.
We believe in people that try out new ideas, take risks, aren’t afraid of failure. People who pick themselves up and keep going till they get there. They adapt, change, learn, reform, grow and create.
People like Niall Downey. In early 2011, he set up Frameworkhealth Ltd, a start-up company based in Northern Ireland.
Using his unusual dual qualifications as both a surgeon and an airline pilot, Niall had a unique vision: bringing aviation safety techniques – some of the most stringent in the world – to healthcare, to try to reduce the number of patients being inadvertently harmed by simple human error in our health services.
Innovating for our safety
It is now broadly accepted that 10% of hospital admissions suffer harm due to human error. It is also accepted that between 3-10% of these suffer harm leading to or contributing to their death….


