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    Hi I had DVT and PEs within a year of the vaccine. Is there any help or advice you could give of who to turn to etc to see if there was a link to the vaccine or whether I was just unlucky.
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    Hi I had the Astra Zeneca vaccine and within a year was hospitalised with DVT and PEs . Is there anyone that could point me to services or provide information if this is link that could be established with the vaccine. It's not something I had thought about until recent findings. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
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    This systematic review aimed to find out the prevalence of sexual harassment, bullying, abuse, workplace discrimination and other forms of harassment among medical students, residents, fellows and attending physicians in obstetrics and gynaecology. It found that many of these behaviours were frequent among respondents of the ten studies used in the review. The findings suggest that there is high prevalence of harassment in obstetrics and gynaecology despite the field being female-dominant for the last decade.
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    The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) is the largest repository of patient safety data in the United States and one of the largest in the world, with over 4.7 million acute care event reports dating back to 2004. This article in the journal Patient Safety analyses the patient safety event reports submitted to PA-PSRS in 2023.
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    Psychotropic medicines are medications that act on the brain. They are used for mental health conditions but are sometimes also given to people because their behaviour is seen as challenging, such as people with learning disabilities or cognitive impairment. This standard produced by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare provides guidance to clinicians, healthcare services, patients, families and carers on the safe and appropriate use of psychotropic medicines. It contains: Eight quality statements describing safe and appropriate care. A set of indicators to support monitoring and quality improvement.
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    This policy paper provides on update on the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency's (MHRA’s) use of AI as a regulator of AI products, as a public service organisation delivering time-critical decisions and as an organisation making evidence-based decisions that impact public safety.
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    Integrated care boards and local authorities are cutting their voluntary contributions to the better care fund by more than £500m compared to a high point in 2021-22. It appears to be caused by the funding squeeze in both the NHS and local government; extra pressure on ICBs to focus on hospital admissions and discharge; a shift away from pooled budgets as a method of integration; and restructure, with ICBs taking over from clinical commissioning groups in 2022. Local BCF pooled budgets are made up of mandatory “minimum” funds from ICBs and local government – the largest share, which the government has generally ordered to grow steadily each year – and from the “additional” voluntary contributions. In the past government has said it wants the sum pooled across the NHS and councils to grow and to ultimately account for most NHS and adult social care spending, to help join up services and decision making. But figures published on Tuesday by NHS England show the voluntary income going backwards. At its high point in 2021-22, ICBs and councils planned a discretionary ”additional” contribution of £3bn, and the actual spend turned out to be £3.2bn – £2bn from the NHS and £1.2bn from councils. The newly published figures show the total was planned to fall to £2.8bn in 2023-24 and £2.7bn in 2024-25 – £500m less than the 2021-22 peak spend. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 8 May 2024
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    A new vaccine could be effective against coronaviruses which have yet to emerge, with hopes it could be used to battle future pandemics, research suggests. Scientists at the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, and Caltech in the US are developing a novel approach called “proactive vaccinology”, which aims to train the body’s immune system to recognise several different coronaviruses. The vaccine used antigens – a substance that triggers an immune response in the body – found in eight different coronaviruses, including those circulating in bats. This trains the immune system to go after the parts of the antigens that are shared across the viruses and other similar ones, including those not included in the vaccine. “Our focus is to create a vaccine that will protect us against the next coronavirus pandemic, and have it ready before the pandemic has even started,” said Rory Hills, a graduate researcher in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Pharmacology and first author of the report. He added: “We’ve created a vaccine that provides protection against a broad range of different coronaviruses – including ones we don’t even know about yet.” Read full story Source: Independent, 7 May 2024
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    Five babies have died from whooping cough as cases continue to rise in England, health officials have announced. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) reported 1,319 cases in England in March, after just over 900 in February, making the 2024 total nearly 2,800. It fears it could be a bumper year for the bacterial infection. The last peak year, 2016, saw 5,949 cases in England. The infection can be particularly serious for babies and infants. Half of cases seen so far this year have been in the under-15s, with the highest rates in babies under three months of age. The five babies who died this year were all under three months old. Known as pertussis or "100-day cough", the infection is a cyclical disease with peaks seen every three to five years. UKHSA has said a steady decline in uptake of the vaccine in pregnant women and children and the very low numbers seen during the pandemic, as happened with other infections because of restrictions and public behaviour, were both factors. The agency said a peak year was therefore overdue and urged families to come forward to get vaccinated if they had not already. Read full story Source: BBC News, 9 May 2024
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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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    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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