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    ReSPECT stands for Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment. The ReSPECT process creates a personalised recommendation for your clinical care in emergency situations where you are not able to make decisions or express your wishes. In an emergency, health or care professionals may have to make rapid decisions about your treatment, and you may not be well enough to discuss and make choices. This plan empowers you to guide them on what treatments you would or would not want to be considered for, and to have recorded those treatments that could be important or those that would not work for you.
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    Diagnostic errors have recently been identified as a high-priority patient safety problem in primary care by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, no studies exist in UK to quantify the extent of such errors and associated harm in primary care. This oral presentation from Sudeh Cheraghi-Sohi et al. published in the British Journal of General Practice aimed to determine the incidence of ‘missed diagnostic opportunities’ in UK primary care.
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    This guide is for organisations providing physical activity programmes or sessions for adults (18+) with mental health problems. It will support you to promote safeguarding, prevent abuse, and protect staff members and adults at risk. This guide was written with support of The Ann Craft Trust (ACT) and Mind. The ACT believe that every disabled child and every adult at risk deserves to be treated with the same respect and dignity as everyone else in society. They are a leading provider of safeguarding training, consultations and safeguarding adult reviews working closely with organisations and individuals across the UK to raise awareness and improve practice. Although the guide was developed for the sport's sector, the information and principles are also relevant to healthcare organisations.
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    The Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland's Improvement Hub (IHUB) supporting improvement across health and social care. This is a unique national programme that aims to improve the safety of healthcare and reduce the level of harm experienced by people using healthcare services. SPSP Mental Health is working with the Scottish Government and partners to deliver the 'Mental Health Strategy: 2017 - 2027', which has meant that the SPSP-MH programme is now expanding its remit from inpatient units to include child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), perinatal services, older peoples services, learning disabilities, as well as community.
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    Between 2014 and 2016, NHS England worked with staff and patients in four mental health trusts to improve the cardiovascular (CVD) health outcomes and reduce premature mortality in people with serious mental illness. This toolkit is based on the independent evaluation by the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the four NHS England pilot sites
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    In March 2015, Norman Lamb MP launched 'Future in Mind' at The King’s Fund, and the government committed to spending an extra £1.25 billion on Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) funding over the next five years. Six months on, this conference provided a key opportunity to examine the progress that had been made in transforming service provision and commissioning.
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    NHS England awarded 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies' (IAPT) services in the Oxford AHSN region ‘Early Implementer’ funding to lead the way in setting up integrated treatments for patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) alongside mental illness. Four of the first 22 services selected nationally were in the Oxford AHSN region. This study was carried out by health economist Professor David Stuckler, formerly of the University of Oxford, now based at the University of Bocconi, Italy, supported by NHS South, Central West Commissioning Support Unit. It focused on one of the first groups of patients (more than 450 people) who started receiving new integrated IAPT-LTC treatments in 2017.
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    https://www.pslhub.org/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=54 Here is Brighton's leaflet for call for concern @Danielle Haupt
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    thanks @Emma Richardson @Danielle Haupt and @Kirsty Wood have a look at Brighton's leaflet
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    This study from Westbrooke et al. published in BMJ Quality and Safety evaluates the effectiveness of a ‘Do not interrupt’ bundled intervention to reduce non-medication-related interruptions to nurses during medication administration.
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    This film, by the Health Foundation, tells the story of how the well-being of older care home residents is enhanced by making sure they are only prescribed the medicine they really need, and the positive impact this has had on the people who work on the project too.
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    Several factors contribute to medication errors in clinical practice settings, including the design of medication labels. The objective of this study from Estock et al., published in the Journal of Patient Safety, was to quantify the impact of label design on medication safety in a realistic, high-stress clinical situation.
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    Everyone, including patients and health care professionals, has a role to play in ensuring medication safety. This video is part of WHO’s campaign to reduce medication-related harm by improving practices and reducing medication errors.
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    This National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Pathway describes in an interactive flowchart the process of what to do next if someone has a possible drug allergy/reaction. 
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    The WHO surgical safety checklist is an essential aide to patient safety. This video demonstrates how the checklist is used at Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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    This is a tool for telephone triage/out of hospital for sepsis in children under five years, devised by the Sepsis Trust, aimed at community healthcare workers or carers.
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    This case study written by Matthew Doyle and published by PSNet, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, describes a case of a patient in the US who was given a drug they were allergic to, the implications of this and how to mitigate future events.
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    Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) is designed to improve the quality of care within the NHS by reducing unwarranted variations. By tackling variations in the way services are delivered across the NHS, and by sharing best practice between trusts, GIRFT identifies changes that will help improve care and patient outcomes, as well as delivering efficiencies such as the reduction of unnecessary procedures and cost savings.
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    The Kent Surrey Sussex Academic Health Science Network Respiratory Network was formed in 2010 to improve the quality, availability and accessibility of respiratory services, and reducing unwarranted variation in the management of pathways, such as community acquired pneumonia (CAP) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This poster was a winner at the Patient Safety Congress 2019.
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    How can you discuss obesity with your patients in a respectful manner? Many doctors feel uncomfortable bringing up the topic of weight since they are afraid of being rude. So how should you do it? In the fifth part of the low carb for doctors series, Dr Unwin discusses how doctors can talk about obesity to their patients in a respectful way.
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    This handbook is for commissioners, providers and those leading the local transformation of cardiology elective care services. It describes what local health and care systems can do to transform cardiology elective care services at pace, why this is necessary and how the impact of this transformation can be measured. The Elective Care Transformation Programme is leading transformative change on these and other areas to make sure patients needing planned care see the right person, in the right place, first and every time, and get the best possible outcomes, delivered in the most efficient way.
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    @Kirsty Wood @Danielle Haupt @Emma Richardson
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    Published by NHS England Patient Safety Domain and the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures Group to help NHS organisations provide safer care and to reduce the number of patient safety incidents related to invasive procedures in which surgical Never Events can occur. The NatSSIPs cover all invasive procedures including those performed outside of the operating department.
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    Medication errors are not uncommon among people with diabetes admitted to hospital and the consequences for their health can be very serious. Rowan Hillson Award winners from Derby, Sheffield and London talk to Diabetes Update about the work they are doing on insulin safety. Through its new Improving Inpatient Care programme, Diabetes UK will translate lessons learned from these examples of good practice to ensure hospital teams have the support they need to improve care for people with diabetes
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    As cancer care becomes inundated with cutting edge and novel treatments, such as personalised medicine, oral chemotherapy, biosimilars, and immunotherapy, new safety challenges are emerging at increasing speed and complexity. 
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