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    I am hoping to attend the patient safety meeting 10/5/24 online so will feedback my thoughts on this then.
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    REDESIGN is a women’s health hackathon to empower women with better user experience and improve health outcomes. Hosted by the Imperial College Women’s Health Network of Excellence, in collaboration with the Imperial FemTech and Design Engineering Societies, this event promotes interdisciplinary work among students and early career professionals to solve the foremost women’s health challenges. The event will comprise various workshops, talks and networking sessions. Objectives To raise awareness of gender gaps in healthcare and the entirety of women’s health, including but also beyond the traditional focus on sexual and reproductive health. To encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among design, engineering, medical, and business students to innovate solutions to the foremost issues affecting the health of women today. To innovate the format of hackathons by promoting user-centred design in solution development, including more contexts and user experiences in the problem-solving process. Four tracks Cardiometabolic health Brain and mental health Gynaecological health Maternal health Participants The event will host up to 80 students and early career professionals, who will form teams of 4-5 people to come up with solutions to specific women’s health challenges. Judging Panel Dr Shikta Das, RWE Manager, AstraZeneca Dr Karim Sandid, Co-Founder, Chief Medical & Product Officer, Kuma Health Rebecca Leppard, Founder & CEO, Upgrading Women Marketing ‬Sarah Fox, Senior Service Designer, TPXimpact David Robson, Lead Service Designer, TPX Impact Prize Cash prize Free coaching on marketing strategy post-event, provided by Rebecca Leppard One-year free membership to the FemHealth Insights mentoring program In addition, every participant will receive a 50% discount to the FemHealth Insights mentoring program Find out more about the hackathon
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    NHS England has found that one in five GP surgeries – and more than two-fifths in some regions – were built more than 75 years ago, and is concerned a lack of space will stop it meeting targets to train more GPs, HSJ has learned. An internal NHSE document seen by HSJ reveals a major audit it commissioned in 2019 – but has not made public – found 20 per cent of 8,900 buildings examined were built before 1948. The figure rises to more than 40 per cent of practices in London, HSJ understands. These practices are likely to be in converted houses, normally owned by GP partners, with very limited space and little scope for expansion. The NHSE slides which include the figure warn the “limited [GP] estate” means there is “strain on existing capacity and meeting current training needs is challenging”. HSJ understands officials are concerned poor estates and lack of space will restrict the big expansion of GP training planned under the NHS long-term workforce plan. Other fears relate to poor tech and the shortage of experienced staff to supervise trainees. NHSE said in a statement: “NHS England has asked every ICS to review their infrastructure to assess which buildings they need to expand and reconfigure to manage additional workforce over the next 10 years.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 9 May 2024
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    Healthcare access, quality of care received and social factors such as income, housing and food insecurity, all impact the health outcomes of US residents. Growing evidence has pointed to wellness gaps and disparities among the different racial and ethnic populations that make up the country. This research by Innerbody takes a closer look at: what groups are the most uninsured across the US healthcare quality and life expectancy across races.
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    Implementing a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) is a complex process and requires meticulous planning, coordination, involving change across every aspect of a healthcare organization. However, it also presents a unique opportunity to transform patient and staff experiences and enhance productivity by eliminating time-consuming manual processes. This webinar was hosted by Deloitte and brought together some of the UK digital health industry’s most experienced leaders with significant experience in implementing electronic patient records in their own organisations. Panellists included: Dr Cormac Breen, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Jacqui Cooper, RN Chief Nursing Information Officer, Health Innovation Manchester Professor Adrian Harris, Chief Medical Officer, Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Dr Henry Morriss, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Manchester Royal Infirmary Consultant Emergency, and Intensive Care Medicine Frances Cousins, Digital Health Lead Partner, Deloitte UK Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Executive Chief Clinical Information Officer, Epic The speakers shared insights for success across a wide variety of topics including crafting a clinical safety case, safely transferring patient data, optimising staff training, preparing for operational readiness across and within organisations and change management for a successful Go-Live.
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    Deloitte is excited to announce a follow-up Q/A session to its successful "Safer Electronic Patient Record Implementation" webinar which took place on 18 April. Join this session to hear expert panellists, with first-hand experience in large-scale EPR implementations, answer some insightful questions. Don't miss this opportunity to deepen your understanding for a successful EPR Go-Live. Speakers: Dr Cormac Breen, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Jacqui Cooper, RN Chief Nursing Information Officer, Health Innovation Manchester Professor Henry Morriss, Chief Clinical Information Officer, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Consultant Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine Dr Afzal Chaudhry, Executive Chief Clinical Information Officer, Epic Frances Cousins, Digital Health Lead, Deloitte UK Register for the webinar
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    Featuring leading legal experts and experienced clinicians this online event will provide an update on current claims processes and how to respond to claims. The conference will look at the patient perspective and explore why patients decide to litigate. There will be an extended session on mediation and ADR. The conference will also update delegates on the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and implications for Clinical Negligence Litigation. We have a limited number of free places for this event for members of the hub. Email content@pslhub.org if you are interested. Find out more and book a place
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    IHPN & CQC will be holding their fifth annual joint Patient Safety Conference on Wednesday 15 May from 9.30am to 4.30pm in Central London. This is a popular members-only event and this year’s conference will focus on building a safety and quality culture within independent healthcare services. Speakers include: CQC’s Chief Executive, Ian Treholm Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, Patient Safety Commissioner for England HSSIB’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Rosie Benneyworth. This year’s conference is free to members of IHPN. Please note that places will be limited to two per member organisation. If you’d like more information about the conference please contact events@ihpn.org.uk quoting reference ‘Reg Conf 2024’.
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    A crisis is deepening in NHS psychiatric care - but how can we turn the tide and stop a total collapse? Join The Independent’s health correspondent Rebecca Thomas and a panel of experts as they dive into the heart of the issues plaguing the NHS' mental health services. This exclusive event comes after joint Independent/Sky News investigation Patient 11 uncovered 20,000 sexual abuse, harassment and assault complaints involving both patients and staff in more than 30 NHS mental health trusts in England since 2019. Sparked by the testimony of former patient Alexis Quinn, who joins our panel, the investigation has prompted accusations by healthcare professionals that NHS psychiatric care in England is in a state of "collapse," due to "unsafe" mixed gender care spaces, inadequate safeguarding protections and bed shortages. Register for the webinar
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    This fellowship program from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation offers a unique educational opportunity for healthcare professionals around the world to expand their knowledge in the theory and practice of patient safety. Building on the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Patient Safety Action Plan, the fellowship aims to develop future leaders particularly from lower middle- and middle-income countries. We aim to have learners from all WHO regions as learners on the program and from any profession within or allied to healthcare. The program combines a year-long curriculum developed by patient safety experts in a variety of areas, taught via monthly live virtual classroom sessions. Fellows complete monthly readings on specific topics, actively participate in discussions on the interpretation of theory and methods, and its implication to practice. Fellows submit monthly reflections on their learning as well as a longer reflection at the end of the fellowship. Applied learning is achieved by completing a hands-on improvement project that explores and advances issues of patient safety in each fellow’s respective professional environment. Fellows are encouraged to publish the outcome of their project and present at conferences. Our fellows are driven by a deep passion for patient safety, often sparked by first-hand encounters with patient harm events, and a desire to improve care outcomes in their home communities and workplace settings. They become part of a global social movement for patient and healthcare worker safety. The program consists of 12 sessions that run from will run from January to December 2025. Fellowship applications are accepted from 1 May to 1 August 2024.
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    A piece of equipment known as a vein finder is being used for inpatients at Ysbyty Gwynedd in order to improve the experience for patients with hard-to-find veins. Anyone who has difficult veins will know the discomfort when there are failed attempts to locate a vein, such as when having bloods taken. Having noticed the need to improve the experience for patients with difficult veins, Junior Doctor Lois Williams secured a £3,000 grant from Health Education and Improvement Wales and around £600 from Menter Môn to purchase the equipment through the Trainees Transforming Training initiative. Dr Williams said: “We’ve been very lucky to obtain a grant to purchase a vein finder and we hope this will empower nurses, phlebotomists, medical students and junior doctors to take blood and cannulate from patients who are difficult to obtain access. It works by infrared, which can bounce back and show us visibility of the vein which you cannot do with the naked eye. It also helps to reduce the time we need to attempt cannulating patients and how often we might need to cannulate them because of failed attempts, which can be quite distressing for some patients. Our hope is that this will improve the quality of patient care in the future.” Read full story Source: NHS Wales, 30 April 2024
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    Bereaved families who lost loved ones in the contaminated blood scandal have claimed their relatives were being “used for research” after discovering historic notes in medical records. It is claimed that some patients being treated for the blood clotting disorder haemophilia in the 1970s and 1980s were given blood plasma treatment which doctors knew might be contaminated and infect them with hepatitis. They wanted to study the links between the haemophilia treatment Factor VIII and the risk of infection, but a number of families have claimed their loved ones were enrolled in these studies without their knowledge or consent. The Factor 8 campaign group alleges that instead of stopping treatment, clinicians lobbied to continue trials, even after identifying the association between hepatitis and the treatment. Jason Evans, director of the campaign group, found notes alluding to the research in his father’s medical records. He has since found other families who have discovered the same notes in the records of their loved ones. Mr Evans, whose father died in 1993 after being infected with both HIV and hepatitis C during the course of his treatment for haemophilia, said: “It is appalling that hundreds of people with haemophilia across the country were knowingly infected with lethal viruses under the guise of scientific research. These secret experiments, conducted without consent, show individuals were treated as mere test subjects, not human beings." Read full story Source: Independent, 9 May 2024
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    Drug shortages in England are now at such critical levels that patients are at risk of immediate harm and even death, pharmacists have warned. The situation is so serious that pharmacists increasingly have to issue “owings” to patients – telling someone that only part of their prescription can be dispensed and asking them to come back for the rest of it later, once the pharmacist has sourced the remainder. Hundreds of different drugs have become hard or impossible to obtain, according to Community Pharmacy England (CPE), which published the report. Widespread and often long-lasting shortages posed “immediate risks to patient health and wellbeing” and caused distress, it said. “The medicine supply challenges being faced by community pharmacies and their patients are beyond critical,” said Janet Morrison, CPE’s chief executive. “Patients with a wide range of clinical and therapeutic needs are being affected on a daily basis and this is going far beyond inconvenience, leading to frustration, anxiety and affecting their health. CPE, which represents England’s 10,500 community pharmacies, based its findings on a survey of the views of owners of 6,100 pharmacy premises and 2,000 of their staff. It found: 79% of pharmacy staff said that medicine shortages were putting patient health at risk. 91% of pharmacy owners had seen a “significant increase” in the problem since last year. 99% of pharmacy workers found a drug was unavailable at least weekly, and 72% encountered that several times a day. Pharmacists are finding themselves on the receiving end of abuse and hostility from patients who are frustrated and angered by not being able to get the drugs they have been prescribed. Read full story Source: Guardian, 9 May 2024
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    An agency providing last-minute freelance nurses to NHS hospitals is routinely charging up to £2,000 a shift, BBC News has discovered. Glen Burley, chief executive of an NHS trust, said that Thornbury Nursing Services is targeting areas in England where nurses are in short supply. He says it is "profiteering" from an overstretched NHS, but Thornbury says it offers a valuable, flexible service. The government says new measures will end the use of expensive agencies. However, Labour has said the high costs are a result of the "Conservatives' failure to train enough nurses over the past 14 years". Under NHS rules, hospital managers are obliged to use staffing agencies that work within an agreed framework, with a limit or cap on how much should be paid. But when last-minute essential cover is needed, trusts may use off-framework agencies, such as Thornbury. These are not legally obliged to abide by pre-agreed pay scales. Workload pressures in the NHS and a desire for more flexibility over shifts are thought to be driving more nurses to work for such agencies, which tend to pay the people on their books more while also taking a payment for themselves. BBC News has discovered Thornbury charges almost £2,000 for a 12-hour bank holiday shift by a specialist paediatric nurse - an area of expertise where there are known staff shortages. Of that, BBC News calculates the nurse receives about £1,050 - meaning nearly £800 goes to the agency.  Read full story Source: BBC News, 8 May 2024
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    This BMJ opinion piece highlights that seeing women’s health as synonymous with sexual, reproductive and maternal health means that gaps remain in health provision to meet the wider needs of women. The Government recently outlined its 2024 priorities that build on the 2022 Women’s Health Strategy for England. The authors welcome the focus on specific areas of need, but highlight that the priorities reinforce a traditional view of women’s health and miss an opportunity to encourage policymakers, healthcare providers and the public to take a broader view. They argue that a broader approach would reduce critical gaps in the evidence base and care and treatment relating to diseases and conditions that present only in women, disproportionately in women, and differently in women.
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    It’s well known that diagnosis at an early stage of cancer dramatically increases chances of survival. Current NHS policy is focused on diagnosing cancer at an earlier stage and improving the speed with which patients receive a definitive diagnosis. This article from the Nuffield Trust and The Health Foundation presents graphical data illustrating that the NHS is seriously off course in achieving these aims. It examines the reasons for delays to diagnosis including difficulties patients face in getting their concerns and symptoms taken seriously, the role of deprivation in increasing diagnostic inequalities and pressures due to increasing numbers of referrals. It also looks at the role screening has to play in achieving earlier diagnosis and highlights issues with patients understanding the information they are given.
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    This investigation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) considers improvements that can be made to patient safety in relation to the use of continuous observation with adult patients in acute hospital wards who are at risk of self-harm. For its reference case, it looks at the case of a patient who self-harmed when receiving care at a high dependency unit while two members of staff were continuously observing her.
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    Hi there, Apologies this is to cover an overnight stay and reimburse my travel expenses? Along with subsistence allowance for lunch and an evening meal?! Many thanks Farzana
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    In this opinion piece for the BMJ, Scarlett McNally looks at patient safety concerns relating to maternity care in the NHS. She considers the costs associated with additional spending in the sector intended to improve safety and emphases the need to train and retain more midwives.
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    Co-production is a method of engaging with communities, via partnership and power-sharing between professionals and communities to co-create solutions and decisions, with the intended long-term benefit of improving healthcare delivery and outcomes. This report from NHS Providers outlines the principles of co-production and actions trusts can take to apply engagement methodologies across their organisation. It provides an overview of different forms of engagement and summarises the potential benefits to trusts, including improved patient experiences and outcomes, and the delivery of more inclusive healthcare services that better meet the needs of local communities. It also makes the connection between engagement, co-production and the broader health inequalities agenda, unlocking the potential for collaboratively developing solutions to address complex barriers to health services experienced by some communities.
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    Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria, and other microorganisms, develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs, such as antibiotics, making them less responsive or unresponsive to treatment. This National Action Plan sets out how the UK will reduce its use of antimicrobials in humans and animals, strengthen surveillance of drug resistant infections before they emerge and incentivise industry to develop the next generation of treatments.
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    NHS staff do not correctly monitor a baby’s heart rate during labour in almost half of cases where serious failings lead to tragedy, a review of maternity care has found. The Care Quality Commission identified that inadequate foetal monitoring occurred in 45 of 92 cases (49%) in which a baby died or suffered serious brain damage while being born in a midwife-led unit in England. The findings show that correct monitoring is “critically important” to ensure care is safe in all maternity units, said Sandy Lewis, the director of the CQC’s maternity and newborn safety investigations (MNSI) programme. It analysed four common failings in the 92 births in a report that is intended to help midwives and doctors improve the quality and safety of care. In one case the investigation team found that “there were likely to have been abnormalities in the baby’s heart rate which were ongoing for a prolonged period of time, which were not identified during intermittent auscultation [monitoring]”. In another, midwives were so busy dealing with a separate emergency on the unit that they failed to monitor the baby at the correct recommended intervals and the woman was left unattended. The 92 incidents involved 62 cases in which the newborn suffered a severe brain injury, 19 in which it was alive at the start of labour but was stillborn and 11 when it died within its first six days of life. Read full story Source: Guardian, 8 May 2024
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    Hospitals in the UK are facing shortages of almost 2,000 anaesthetists, leading the NHS to miss 1.4 million operations a year, doctors have warned. The government has been urged to increase funding for the number of newly qualified doctors who can train as anaesthetists as more than 2,000 miss out on places each year. The Royal College of Anaesthetists has said the NHS will not be able to tackle waiting lists without more of these specialist doctors. Their warning comes amid fears hospitals are substituting doctors for staff without sufficient training, called anaesthesia associates. This week the NHS will publish new waiting list figures. They stood at 7.6 million in March. Dr Fiona Donald, president of the Royal College of Anaesthetists warned: “The shortage of anaesthetists has reached crisis levels and is preventing patients from getting the operations they so desperately need. During the election campaign, I’m sure we’ll see all parties pledge to reduce NHS waiting lists but unless their policies include plans for more anaesthetists they will have limited impact.” According to the college, each year 2,600 doctors apply for anaesthetist training however only 550 places are funded. For more advanced training there are around 650 applicants a year yet only 400 are funded. Read full story Source: Independent, 8 May 2024
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    The government is launching a review of the Care Quality Commission and has appointed a senior NHS figure to lead it, HSJ understands. The Department of Health and Social Care has commissioned the work, along with other departments, and selected Penny Dash, current North West London Integrated Care Board chair and formerly a senior McKinsey & Company consultant, to lead it. HSJ understands the review will examine how the CQC’s recently updated assessment framework is working, and how it links to NHS England’s national oversight framework. It will also consider whether the CQC’s ratings were properly rewarding and incentivising the improvement of care, and how the regulator is taking into account service user and patient voices, sources told HSJ. One source involved said they hoped the work would also respond to providers’ complaints that CQC inspections are making it more difficult for them to redesign services, for example by enforcing minimum staffing requirements, and are skewing their priorities. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 8 May 2024
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    A large number of people live with long-term breathlessness that has a significant impact on their daily lives. For some, breathlessness is not directly linked to an underlying, diagnosable illness, and these people can struggle to access effective treatment and support. In this interview, respiratory doctor Anna Moore explains some of the causes of breathlessness including its links to a wide range of socioeconomic factors. She outlines the person-centred, multi-disciplinary approach her team at Barts Health is taking to help people overcome breathlessness and highlights the need for more research in this area.
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