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  1. News Article
    The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is leading a new project to examine the causes of the growing challenge of medicines shortages and help tackle their impact on patients and pharmacy practice. A new advisory group, convened by RPS and chaired by RPS Fellow Dr Bruce Warner, will meet later this month and bring together experts from primary and secondary care, patients, the pharmaceutical industry, suppliers, regulators, government and the NHS. Read full press release Source: The Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 13 March 2024
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    In this interview, we talk to Darren Powell, Clinical Lead for NHS England and Community Pharmacist, about medication supply issues. Darren shares his experiences of how medication shortages and tariffs are affecting patients and staff and offers insights into the complexity of the situation.  He tells us his thoughts on potential causes and barriers, as well as suggesting three actions for wider system safety. 
  3. Content Article
    Over the years, we have worked with many amazing women who share our aim of reducing avoidable harm in health and social care. In this blog, to mark International Women’s Day 2024, we are celebrating women who campaign for patient safety. 
  4. Content Article
    Are you a surgical doctor working in the NHS? Could you spare 1 hour of your time to share your insights and help researchers explore psychological safety? Shinal Patel-Thakkar, a trainee Clinical Psychologist, is seeking participants for a qualitative research study into psychological safety in surgical environments. In this interview she tells us more about the study, how people can register their interest, and provides reassurance that confidentiality will be maintained.
  5. Content Article
    Online healthcare services and apps can help people take more control of their health, by getting access to care easily and when it suits them. You need to make sure any medicine, treatment or health advice you get is safe and right for you. These six top tips from UK health organisations will help you keep safe if you decide to go online.
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    Dr Georgia Richards provides oral evidence to the UK Parliamentary Justice Select Committee's follow-up inquiry to the Coroner Service on 20 February 2024. Watch all of the evidence given by Georgia including: Part 1: Inconsistencies in coroner reports Part 2: Could sanctions improve the Coroner Service? Part 3: Improving the status and ability of coroner reports Part 4: Barriers to making changes Part 5: The potential future utility of the Tracker In part 1, shown in the below video, Dr Richards is asked what the evidence is for variation in writing coroner reports in England and Wales.
  7. Content Article
    Safety leader Helen Macfie describes why she appreciates that Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety includes workforce safety as one of its foundational areas.
  8. Content Article Comment
    Hi @Sue Deakin, thank you for sharing these experiences. They reinforce the need for electronic systems to be safe and for changes to services, like the ceasing of funding, to be communicated to key stakeholders. These communication failures can contribute to a loss of faith in the NHS, as Miriam says in her blog. In your experience, what do you think would make a difference to patient safety when it comes to improving communications?
  9. Content Article
    Demos is Britain's leading cross-party think tank, working on different policy areas, from improving public services to building a more collaborative democracy. In this blog, Miriam Levin, Director of Participatory Programmes at Demos, tells us about their recent report, “I love the NHS but…”: Preventing needless harms caused by poor communication in the NHS. She argues there is an urgent need to improve NHS communications for patients and staff if we are to prevent people falling through the gaps and suffering worse health outcomes. Miriam highlights key issues with NHS referrals, disjointed computer systems and gaps in patient information, and offers some potential solutions. 
  10. Content Article
    Despite its reported benefits, breastfeeding rates are low globally, and support systems such as the Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) have been established to support healthy infant feeding practices and infant bonding. Increasingly reviews are being undertaken to assess the overall impact of BFI accreditation. A systematic synthesis of current reviews has therefore been carried out to examine the state of literature on the effects of BFI accreditation. 
  11. Content Article
    Although several studies have tried to quantify the cost of ‘adverse events’ in healthcare, the true costs remain unknown. To understand the ‘true cost’ of serious incidents, Jane Carthey argues we need to consider:The cost of additional treatment for the affected patient.The opportunity costs that accrue from reporting and managing incidents, claims and complaintsBusiness costs that accrue when, for example, healthcare staff are suspended.Costs resulting from implementing the duty of candour process, andPenalties and sanctions imposedIn other industries, the HSE’s Incident Cost Calculator is used to quantify the true costs of incidents. Inspired by this tool, Jane developed the Healthcare Serious Incident Cost Calculator. Available via the link below.
  12. Content Article
    This video, was produced by Long Covid Support to show why effective Long Covid research is urgently needed.
  13. Content Article
    North Central London Integrated Care System has piloted new guidelines and a local dashboard to ensure there is a safety net in place for females taking sodium valproate.This is a paywalled article published by the Pharmaceutical Journal.
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    NHS Resolution’s Safety and Learning team, are hosting a virtual forum on the recently published research conducted by Dr Rebecca Payne and Professor Greenhalgh into the safety of remote consultations. The purpose is to raise awareness of the research evidence from incidents, claims and complaints which inform the findings and recommendations on patient safety in remote consultations. This will be of interest to all involved in telephone consultations across primary and urgent care but also of relevance to telephone consultations taking place in secondary care. The format is interactive, with presentations followed by questions and panel discussion Event programme: Patient safety in remote encounters in primary care Q&A panel discussion Contributors: • Dr Rebecca Payne - NIHR in-practice fellow, General practictioner | University of Oxford and Chair | NICE Quality Standards Committee • Prof Trisha Greenhalgh - Professor of Primary Health Care | University of Oxford • Dr Anwar Khan - Senior Clinical Advisor for General Practice | NHS Resolution Book your place
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