Jump to content
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,237

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Claire Cox

Members

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Claire Cox

  1. Content Article
    Hamblin-Brown and Ingram, in the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, discuss how Aspen Healthcare have reduced patient harm by engaging staff in ‘STEP-up’: a programme to improve the culture of patient safety. 
  2. Content Article
    Designed and tested by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)’s world-renowned safety experts, the Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit can help you improve teamwork and communication, understand the underlying issues that can cause errors, and create and maintain reliable systems. IHI's Vice President, Frank Federico, helped develop the contents of the new toolkit. In the following interview, he provides an overview of how to put the toolkit to good use.
  3. Content Article
    Lewis Blackman, a healthy 15-year-old boy, died in 2000 after an elective surgery. In this video, Lewis' mother Helen Haskell, President of Mothers Against Medical Error and member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Board of Directors, explains why communication isn’t always the norm after adverse events and why this dynamic is changing.
  4. Content Article
    The assessment of acute-illness severity in adult non-pregnant patients in the UK is based on early warning score (EWS) values that determine the urgency and nature of the response to patient deterioration. This study from Freathy et al., published in the journal Resuscitation, aimed to describe, and identify variations in, the expected clinical response outlined in ‘deteriorating patient’ policies/guidelines in acute NHS hospitals.
  5. Content Article
    Patients with delirium have changes in their thinking and are often confused and cannot pay attention. About half of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) have delirium during their stay. Research has shown that patients with delirium are more likely to die or to have long-term brain problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental health issues, than those without delirium. Although nurses and doctors have tools to measure delirium in the ICU, it can be hard to identify and, in some cases, may be missed. Family members may be the first to notice that their loved ones have changes in their thinking or cannot pay attention. There are tools called the Family Confusion Assessment Method (FAM-CAM) and Sour Seven questionnaire that can be used by family members to detect delirium. However, neither of these tools has been used in an ICU. This study from Krewulak et al., published in CmajOPEN, shows that these tools can be used by family members to measure delirium in the ICU. The results from this study could lead to a change in policy that would involve partnering with family members to improve the diagnosis of delirium in the ICU. In turn, this would improve patient and family care and outcomes in the ICU.
  6. Content Article
    In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsored the development of a 'Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families'. One of the strategies introduced was a 'warm handoff' A warm handoff is a handoff conducted in person between two members of the health care team in front of the patient and family or caregiver. This video demonstrates warm handoffs in medical offices.
  7. Content Article
    This guideline by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) covers assessment of fall risk and interventions to prevent falls in people aged 65 years and over. It aims to reduce the risk and incidence of falls and the associated distress, pain, injury, loss of confidence, loss of independence and mortality.
  8. Content Article
    A video introducing Clinical Service Accreditation (CSA), how it can improve clinical care, how your hospital can become involved, and the resources, support and guidance available through the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). Presented by HQIP CSA Clinical Lead, Roland Valori. 
  9. Content Article
    The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has developed The Safety Toolkit which aims to describe the structures, processes and skills required for a ‘safe’ department. There are resources identified within each section to stimulate, provoke and challenge, as well as guide personal development. There are overlapping references and differing perspectives but the vision is of a resource for change and development.
  10. Content Article
    This leaflet was designed by the Critical Care Outreach team in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust. Call 4 concern was initiated by Mandy O'Dell, Nurse Consultant from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. Call 4 concern was set up to enable patients, carers and families to escalate deterioration to the outreach team - to get their voices heard.
  11. Content Article
    This guide, written by Angela Stringfellow from Care Giver Homes, sets out how people with dementia, and people caring for people with dementia, can keep safe.
  12. Content Article
    Medical errors can occur anywhere in the healthcare system: hospitals, clinics, surgery centres, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies and patients' homes. Errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment or lab reports. These tips tell what you can do to get safer care.
  13. Content Article
    This leaflet produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) is aimed at patients who are undergoing a surgical procedure. It aims to enable communication between you and your surgical team, including you in safety checks.
  14. Content Article
    A guide supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to draw on patient experience data to improve quality in healthcare.
  15. Content Article
    A Learning Disabilities service in Leicester found that Experience Based Co-Design (EBCD) was the ideal way to bring together users, families and staff to share experiences of care and design and implement change.
  16. Content Article
    This toolkit by The Point of Care Foundation is a step-by-step guide to improving processes of care and staff–patient interactions. It offers a simple way for organisations to show their commitment to patients’ experience while also motivating the staff who deliver that care.
  17. Content Article
    This report by The Point of Care Foundation, looks at staff engagement in three NHS hospital trusts and provides insights into the views of staff and managers.
  18. Content Article
    This briefing highlights evidence on NHS staff, their experience at work, the pressures they face and the consequences for patients. The Point of Care Foundation believes that it’s critically important that NHS employers pay attention to staff and their experience at work because when staff feel positive and engaged with work it has a positive impact on patient experience.
  19. Content Article
    Dr Clare Dollery reflects on a retained swab 'never event' in Churchill Hospital theatres. Incidents, such as operating on the wrong body part or leaving instruments inside patients are categorised by the Department of Health as 'never events'. Dr Dollery is Oxford University Hospital's Deputy Medical Director. The Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at Oxford University, is the key educational meeting for consultants, juniors and medical students. Presentations revolve around clinical cases.
  20. Content Article
    Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care and Dean for Research Impact, Blizard Institute, speaking at the transforming patient and staff experience conference.
  21. Content Article
    Th British Medical Association provide a number of services to help and advise doctors who are experiencing bullying at work but also to those who may have witnessed examples of bullying and wish to raise concerns. This video offers some advice for staff affected.
  22. Content Article
    Based on the concept of safety advice given on planes before they take off, the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has produced a short film to help patients look after themselves during their hospital stay.
  23. Content Article
    The SSKIN care bundle can help to prevent pressure ulcers. In this video, Fiona Downey takes you through each of the elements of the bundle and explains how each relates to your patients and the care you give.
  24. Content Article
    Emergency service workers describe how being on the front line affects their mental health, how they cope with the traumas they see and their advice for colleagues on how to stay mentally fit. Wellbeing staff from the first responder agencies also provide information about the help and support programmes available, including peer support.
  25. Content Article
    Trent Simulation & Clinical Skills Centre has developed this short cartoon to introduce healthcare staff to human factors and ergonomics. The cartoon particularly focuses on individuals, teams and the wider system with sign-posting to find out more about Human Factors and the Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre.
×
×
  • Create New...