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This video learning resource from from the Health Services Safety Investigation Body (HSSIB) resource is aimed at people with roles in healthcare safety investigation, including investigation, commissioning, oversight and involvement. By the end of this resource, you will be able to: Describe the skills, knowledge and attributes of a professional healthcare safety investigator. Identify a competency framework for healthcare safety investigators. Evaluate the enablers and barriers to professionalising the role of healthcare safety investigators. -
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This video learning resource from the Health Services Safety Investigation Body (HSSIB) is aimed at people with roles in healthcare safety investigation, including investigation, commissioning, oversight and involvement. By the end of this resource, you will be able to: Explain why effective involvement is fundamental for a high-quality safety investigation. Discuss barriers and enablers for the effective involvement of all those affected. Evaluate organisational readiness to support effective involvement. -
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A national week of campaigns, conversations, community, learning and action focused on the mental health and wellbeing of Black mothers across the UK. Join mothers, grassroots organisations, charities, healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers and communities throughout the week. Organised by The Motherhood Group. Read the full programme and register for events -
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Pregnancy and the weeks after birth are often portrayed as exciting and joyful. While that is true for many families, it's also a time when serious health complications can occur. One of the most dangerous—but least talked about—is maternal sepsis. Although maternal sepsis is a leading cause of maternal death worldwide, many people have never heard of it. Amy Breslin is a Manchester-based midwife and Maternity Consultant for the UK Sepsis Trust. In this interview, she explains what maternal sepsis is, the huge impact it has both globally and for the individuals affected, and how we can improve outcomes. -
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In this blog, Michele Peters, Associate Professor from the University of Oxford, shares findings from a research project that focused on patient harm in the NHS. -
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Scotland’s patient safety watchdog privately urged ministers to scrap their maternity taskforce over concerns it was failing to act with sufficient urgency, The Herald can reveal. Karen Titchener, the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland, wrote to Health Secretary Angela Constance in June recommending the Scottish Maternity and Neonatal Taskforce be discontinued and replaced with an independent, nationwide assessment of services. Read full story Source: The Herald, 5 August 2026 -
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Digital interventions are increasingly used in primary care to improve patient safety, targeting errors and preventing patient safety incidents. This review looked at the effectiveness of digital patient safety interventions in primary care, finding that they can significantly improve patient safety by reducing medication errors, supporting earlier diagnosis and helping prevent patient harm. -
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National maternity standards are set to be reintroduced under plans to improve maternity care, Health Secretary Yvette Cooper has said. The standards will be measured by patient experience and will incorporate an early warning system to signal underperformance. The announcement follows a review into maternity care, led by Baroness Valerie Amos, which concluded families have suffered from repeated failures in NHS care. Read full story Source: Independent, 5 August 2026 -
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Animal dewormer and a drug used to treat scabies are being sold and promoted as unproven cancer treatments, a BBC investigation has found. Following a tip off, an undercover journalist was able to buy fenbendazole and ivermectin from a stairlift salesman in south Wales, and also found them for sale on Amazon. Macmillan Cancer Support said it was concerned by the findings and that a growing number of people were asking about the medicines, despite "no clinical evidence" that they work. Read full story Source: BBC News, 4 August 2026 -
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In this article for HSJ Aliza Ayaz argues that as heat-related deaths rise and projections for 2050 grow increasingly stark, the NHS must stop treating summer as the quiet season. The case for giving heat the same operational seriousness as winter has never been stronger – and the cost of delay is already being counted in lives. Read full story Source: HSJ, 5 August 2026 -
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In this article for the Kings Fund, Sharon Nash, Senior Consultant, talks about the wellbeing of the workforce... "not as a distant observer but as someone who walks alongside NHS leaders and teams every day, listening, witnessing and supporting those who hold the system together." -
Community PostHave you or a loved one: felt better after a medication was stopped? experienced side effects from medicines that continued after a hospital stay? struggled with taking lots of medicines? wondered whether all your medicines were still necessary? If so, the CHARMER programme team would like to hear from you. Find out more on the poster below or on their website: Patient Stories - CHARMER Study
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TransActual are a UK based, trans led and run organisation. On this page of their website they highlight some issues around healthcare that are specific to trans people or are more likely to apply to trans people. Find out more via the link below -
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A new blood test aimed at helping doctors diagnose colorectal cancer - the second-leading cause of U.S. cancer deaths - was recently approved by the Food and Drug Administration. SimpleScreen, made by the California biotech company Freenome, is designed for adults aged 45 and older who are at average risk for the life-threatening disease. It’s designed to detect DNA signals that are linked to colorectal cancer in this age group. Read full story Source: Independent, 3 August 2026 -
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Racism within the NHS is reportedly on the rise, with staff subjected to vile abuse including being called "monkeys" and patients refusing treatment from non-white healthcare professionals. Experts, including the Society of Radiographers (SoR), have highlighted a "noticeable" increase in racist incidents from patients over the past 18 months. Read full story Source: Independent, 4 August 2026
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