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1. Opposition to vaccines has a long history (26 April 2022)

   • Vaccination
   • Public health
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     • Vaccination
     • Public health
     • Communication problems

   By Patient Safety Learning, 11 September

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   • 11 September

2. “A perfect storm”: The global impact of the pandemic on patient safety (Patient Safety Learning blog)

   • Pandemic
   • Virus
   • (and 9 more)

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     • Pandemic
     • Virus
     • Infection control
     • PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
     • Staff safety
     • Health inequalities
     • Health Disparities
     • Leadership
     • Clinical governance
     • Long Covid
     • Vaccination

   By Patient Safety Learning, 19 August

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   • 19 August

3. Don’t be complacent, another Covid wave is coming. Here’s how we can manage it (Guardian, 13 June 2022)

   • Virus
   • Pandemic
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Virus
     • Pandemic
     • Infection control
     • Post-virus support
     • Long Covid
     • Vaccination
     • High risk groups

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 June

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   • 18 June

4. Covid-19: Partygate makes a mockery of the sacrifices made and the losses endured (30 May 2022)

   • High risk groups
   • Virus
   • (and 2 more)

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     • High risk groups
     • Virus
     • Pandemic
     • Relative

   By Sam, 3 June

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   • 3 June

5. Covid-19: Long term brain injury (14 March 2022)

   • Virus
   • Long Covid
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Virus
     • Long Covid
     • Research
     • Recovery

   By Patient Safety Learning, 14 May

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   • 216 views
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   • 14 May

6. COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group: The legacy of the pandemic (5 May 2022)

   • Virus
   • Pandemic
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Virus
     • Pandemic
     • Secondary impact
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Care plan

   By Patient Safety Learning, 14 May

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   • 14 May

7. WHO waited two years to admit COVID-19 is airborne — But why? (29 April 2022)

   • Virus
   • Transmission
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Virus
     • Transmission
     • Pandemic

   By Patient Safety Learning, 4 May

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   • 4 May

8. I have long Covid and despair that the UK government ignores its blight (Guardian, 3 April 2022)

   • Long Covid
   • Virus
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Long Covid
     • Virus
     • Recovery
     • Post-virus support

   By Patient Safety Learning, 1 May

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   • 1 May

9. An assurance case for COVID-19 (28 October 2021)

   • Virus
   • Pandemic
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     • Virus
     • Pandemic
     • Systems modelling
     • Decision making
     • Leadership

   By Patient Safety Learning, 5 April

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   • 87 views
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   • 5 April

10. Eight changes the world needs to make to live with COVID (23 February 2022)

    • Virus
    • Pandemic
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Infection control
      • Transmission
      • Vaccination
      • Long Covid

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 April

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    • 2 April

11. False narratives about Covid left us with millions of deaths – will we challenge them now? (Guardian, 23 March 2022)

    • Virus
    • Pandemic
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Vaccination
      • Infection control
      • Transmission
      • Communication
      • Patient death

    By Patient Safety Learning, 23 March

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    • 243 views
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    • 23 March

12. Collaborative learning during a pandemic: The PACS (Post-Acute Covid Syndrome) International Working Group

    • Long Covid
    • Recovery
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Long Covid
      • Recovery
      • Collaboration
      • USA
      • UK
      • Health education
      • Communication
      • Research

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 March

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    • 7 March

13. Pandemics disable people — the history lesson that policymakers ignore (16 February 2022)

    • Pandemic
    • Disability
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Pandemic
      • Disability
      • Patient
      • High risk groups
      • Virus

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 March

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    • 371 views
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    • 4 March

14. The UK’s covid-19 data collection has been “world beating”—let’s not throw it away (25 February 2022)

    • Virus
    • Pandemic
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Data
      • Infection control

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 March

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    • 2 March

15. Blog - Learning from HSIB Covid-19 reports (27 January 2022)

    • Organisational learning
    • Pandemic
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Organisational learning
      • Pandemic
      • Transmission
      • PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
      • Infection control

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 March

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    • 1 March

16. Covid-19: For the clinically extremely vulnerable, life hasn’t returned to normal (BMJ, 15 February 2022)

    • Virus
    • Shielding
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Virus
      • Shielding
      • High risk groups
      • Infection control
      • Pandemic

    By Patient Safety Learning, 26 February

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    • 26 February

17. BMA Blog - PPE: A right to protection

    • Staff safety
    • PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
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      • Staff safety
      • PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
      • Infection control
      • Long Covid

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 22 February

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    • 22 February

18. Is anti-vaccine sentiment affecting routine childhood immunisations? (BMJ, 10 February 2022)

    • Vaccination
    • Pandemic
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      • Vaccination
      • Pandemic
      • Virus
      • Medicine - Infectious disease
      • Children and Young People

    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 February

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    • 19 February

19. Working in healthcare right now means being asked to do the impossible—then being abandoned to our inevitable failure (24 January 2022)

    • Virus
    • Pandemic
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Healthcare
      • Stress
      • Staff factors
      • Staff support
      • Fatigue / exhaustion

    By Sam, 24 January

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    • 24 January

20. BMJ: Raining in Los Angeles (14 January 2022)

    • USA
    • Virus
    • (and 4 more)

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      • USA
      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Treatment
      • Care assessment
      • Care coordination

    By Patient Safety Learning, 23 January

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    • 23 January

21. ‘Christmas was awful’: on the Omicron frontline at the Royal Preston hospital (17 January 2022)

    • Staff factors
    • Staff support
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Staff factors
      • Staff support
      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Fatigue / exhaustion
      • Lack of resources
      • Patient factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 January

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    • 22 January

22. Patient safety events and the role of patient safety organizations during the Covid-19 pandemic (12 January 2022)

    • Patient safety incident
    • Infection control
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Patient safety incident
      • Infection control
      • Communication problems
      • PPE (personal Protective Equipment)
      • Sepsis
      • Hospital ward

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 19 January

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    • 19 January

23. BMJ Editorial: Why don’t we just open the windows? (26 November 2021)

    • Virus
    • Pandemic
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Virus
      • Pandemic
      • Infection control
      • Transmission

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 January

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    • 17 January

24. Nurses struggle through a new COVID wave with rage and compassion (11 January 2022)

    • Nurse
    • Fatigue / exhaustion
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Nurse
      • Fatigue / exhaustion
      • Pandemic
      • Virus
      • USA
      • Staff safety

    By Patient Safety Learning, 15 January

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    • 384 views
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    • 15 January

25. "As a paramedic, I see an NHS ambulance service at breaking point, letting down those who need it most" (11 January 2022)

    • Virus
    • Secondary impact
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Virus
      • Secondary impact
      • Pandemic
      • Paramedic
      • Ambulance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 15 January

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    • 246 views
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    • 15 January