Patient stories

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1. Preventable negative hysteroscopy experience

   • Hysteroscopy
   • Womens health
   • (and 3 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Hysteroscopy
     • Womens health
     • Patient harmed
     • Communication
     • Consent

   By Anonymous, 9 August, 2024

   • 1 comment
   • 2,857 views
   • 
   • Comment by Patient Safety Learning
   • 9 August, 2024

2. Entering medicine as a physician and a patient (15 April 2024)

   • Medicine - Cardiology
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 2 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Medicine - Cardiology
     • Emergency medicine
     • Doctor
     • Patient

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 12 July, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 529 views
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   • 12 July, 2024

3. Clinical Communiqué (June 2024)

   • Communication problems
   • Unconscious bias
   • (and 9 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Communication problems
     • Unconscious bias
     • Deterioration
     • Adult
     • Coroner reports
     • Hospital ward
     • Coroner
     • Care assessment
     • Treatment
     • Diagnostic error
     • Patient death

   By Anonymous, 5 July, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 628 views
   • 
   • Added by Anonymous
   • 5 July, 2024

4. The Untold Patient Stories: Shedding light on the realities of life with a long-term condition (21 May 2024)

   • Patient
   • Long-term conditions

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 3 June, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 557 views
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   • Added by Patient-Safety-Learning
   • 3 June, 2024

5. ‘A rollercoaster of awful emotions’: Family speaks out for NHS overhaul to prevent deaths of severely ill ME patients (19 March 2024)

   • Patient / family involvement
   • Patient / family support
   • (and 3 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Patient / family involvement
     • Patient / family support
     • ME/ Chronic fatigue syndrome
     • Commisioning
     • Consent

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 22 May, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 589 views
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   • Added by Patient-Safety-Learning
   • 22 May, 2024

6. Mind the gap: A patient’s perspective on harm (19 June 2023)

   • Surgery - Vascular
   • Patient harmed
   • (and 5 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Surgery - Vascular
     • Patient harmed
     • Gaslighting
     • Patient engagement
     • Communication problems
     • Mental health
     • WPSD24

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 May, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 654 views
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   • 15 May, 2024

7. The Observer view on the infected blood scandal: victims of this cruel experiment deserve justice (20 April 2024)

   • Blood / blood products
   • Patient harmed
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Blood / blood products
     • Patient harmed
     • Patient death
     • Investigation
     • Patient / family involvement
     • Patient / family support

   By Patient Safety Learning, 23 April, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 510 views
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   • Added by Patient Safety Learning
   • 23 April, 2024

8. How my mum, 82, got trapped between the NHS and social care (The Times, 30 March 2024)

   • Care coordination
   • Communication
   • (and 7 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Care coordination
     • Communication
     • Social Care
     • Healthcare
     • Community care
     • Lack of resources
     • Additional staff required
     • Organisation / service factors
     • System safety

   By Patient Safety Learning, 3 April, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 714 views
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   • 3 April, 2024

9. Learning from patients: The impact of using patients’ narratives on patient experience scores (1 March 2024)

   • Patient engagement
   • Research
   • (and 3 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Patient engagement
     • Research
     • Organisational learning
     • Quality improvement
     • Staff engagement

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 March, 2024

   • 0 comments
   • 982 views
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   • 8 March, 2024

10. The hospital told me to GO HOME, but my daughter was critically sick. A bereaved mother’s 11 patient safety lessons

    • Patient / family involvement
    • Investigation
    • (and 9 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient / family involvement
      • Investigation
      • Duty of Candour
      • Coroner
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Transparency
      • Communication
      • Emergency medicine
      • Patient death
      • Young Adult
      • Diagnostic error

    By Dorit Young, 4 March, 2024

    • 1 comment
    • 5,351 views
    • 
    • Comment by Patient Safety Learning
    • 5 March, 2024

11. Primodos, paternalism and the fight to be heard (14 February 2024)

    • Patient / family involvement
    • Medication
    • (and 3 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient / family involvement
      • Medication
      • Patient harmed
      • Pregnancy
      • Disability

    By Patient Safety Learning, 23 February, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 927 views
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    • Added by Patient Safety Learning
    • 23 February, 2024

12. Treated with callous disrespect: A bereaved mother’s tale of institutional apathy from the Coroner Service

    • Patient death
    • Coroner
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient death
      • Coroner
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Organisational culture
      • Patient / family support
      • Patient / family involvement

    By Annabel, 11 January, 2024

    • 1 comment
    • 4,880 views
    • 
    • Comment by Patient Safety Learning
    • 18 October, 2024

13. Patient experience: who is listening? (The King's Fund, 19 October 2023)

    • Patient engagement
    • Feedback
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient engagement
      • Feedback
      • Quality improvement
      • Organisational culture

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 November, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 718 views
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    • Added by Patient-Safety-Learning
    • 15 November, 2023

14. Transitioning to reality: the diary of an ARDS survivor (16 October 2023)

    • HDU / ICU
    • Care record
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • HDU / ICU
      • Care record
      • Patient / family support
      • Patient engagement
      • Ventilators
      • Mental health
      • Delirium

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 November, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 1,283 views
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    • 15 November, 2023

15. When will the Government take responsibility and meet the needs of all mesh patients? A blog by Paula Goss

    • Medical device
    • Patient harmed
    • (and 7 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Medical device
      • Patient harmed
      • Redress
      • Patient / family support
      • Transparency
      • Consent
      • Decision making
      • Pain
      • Long-term conditions

    By Paula Goss, 17 October, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 2,837 views
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    • Added by Paula Goss
    • 17 October, 2023

16. “Had my concerns been taken seriously by medical staff, Lewis might still be alive today.” Simon Chilcott tells his son Lewis’s story

    • Patient death
    • Patient / family support
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient death
      • Patient / family support
      • Transparency
      • Duty of Candour
      • Investigation
      • Communication

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 11 October, 2023

    • 1 comment
    • 5,926 views
    • 
    • Comment by Annabel
    • 9 March, 2024

17. The truth for Gaia Young

    • Patient engagement
    • Patient death
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient engagement
      • Patient death
      • Investigation
      • Patient / family involvement
      • Transparency
      • Communication

    By Patient Safety Learning, 2 October, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 1,151 views
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    • Added by Patient Safety Learning
    • 2 October, 2023

18. Paul Laity: Can I forgive myself for my daughter’s death? (The Guardian, 27 August 2023)

    • Patient death
    • Children and Young People
    • (and 7 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient death
      • Children and Young People
      • Organisational culture
      • Speaking up
      • Accountability
      • Investigation
      • Transparency
      • Relative
      • Hierarchy

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 August, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 1,181 views
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    • Added by Patient-Safety-Learning
    • 29 August, 2023

19. A patient harmed by orthodontic treatment shares their story

    • Patient harmed
    • Dentist
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient harmed
      • Dentist
      • Accountability
      • Patient
      • Regulatory issue
      • Negligence claim

    By Anonymous, 29 August, 2023

    • 1 comment
    • 3,387 views
    • 
    • Comment by Patient-Safety-Learning
    • 29 August, 2023

20. Patients who experience harm provide stories, but who will really engage with their insights and opinions?

    • Patient engagement
    • Organisational learning
    • (and 12 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient engagement
      • Organisational learning
      • Cancer
      • End of life care
      • Medicine - Palliative
      • Transparency
      • Care navigation
      • Harmed Care Pathway
      • System safety
      • Patient / family involvement
      • Patient harmed
      • Communication
      • Collaboration
      • Rare diseases

    By rich squince, 19 July, 2023

    • 5 comments
    • 4,276 views
    • 
    • Comment by richard vA
    • 19 January, 2024

21. Using patient stories to reflect on care (2016)

    • Patient engagement
    • Patient involvement
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient engagement
      • Patient involvement
      • Communication
      • Nurse
      • Mental health
      • Learning disabilities

    By Patient Safety Learning, 6 July, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 863 views
    • 
    • Added by Patient Safety Learning
    • 6 July, 2023

22. Complications after private surgery: where to turn to?

    • Patient harmed
    • Patient suffering
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient harmed
      • Patient suffering
      • Private sector
      • Womens health
      • Surgery - Obs & Gynae
      • Communication
      • Consent

    By Anonymous, 23 May, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 2,633 views
    • 
    • Added by Anonymous
    • 23 May, 2023

23. More than just physical blog

    • Patient harmed
    • Surgery - General
    • (and 5 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient harmed
      • Surgery - General
      • Surgeon
      • Communication
      • Engagement
      • Restorative Justice
      • Personal reflection

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 11 May, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 1,074 views
    • 
    • Added by Patient-Safety-Learning
    • 11 May, 2023

24. My experience of an outpatient hysteroscopy procedure

    • Outpatients
    • Patient suffering
    • (and 6 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Outpatients
      • Patient suffering
      • Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
      • Patient engagement
      • Consent
      • Womens health
      • UK
      • Hysteroscopy

    By Anonymous, 31 March, 2023

    • 1 comment
    • 12,859 views
    • 
    • Comment by Fitzy1
    • 5 January, 2024

25. Get to know me as a person, not just my body parts (BMJ, 23 March 2022)

    • Patient
    • Cancer
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Patient
      • Cancer
      • Patient engagement
      • Patient / family involvement
      • Communication
      • Mental health

    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 January, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 875 views
    • 
    • Added by Patient Safety Learning
    • 19 January, 2023