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    This white paper explores the significance of safety strategies in healthcare settings and how these practices influence the patient and clinician experience. The Experience of Safety in Healthcare: A Call to Expand Perceptions and Solutions, reflects on the integrated nature of safety and service and how they interact to create the overall experience of patients, families and clinicians.
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    Stephen Pollard, Editor of the Jewish Herald, speaks openly to unherd about his leukaemia diagnosis and his fears as a 'highly vulnerable' person amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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    This guidance is for people, including children, who are at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) because of an underlying health condition, and for their family, friends and carers. It is intended for use in situations where the extremely vulnerable person is living in their own home, with or without additional support. This includes the extremely clinically vulnerable people living in long-term care facilities, either for the elderly or persons with special needs. Shielding is a measure to protect people who are clinically extremely vulnerable by minimising all interaction between those who are extremely vulnerable and others. We are strongly advising people with serious underlying health conditions (listed below) which put them at very high risk of severe illness from coronavirus (COVID-19) to rigorously follow shielding measures in order to keep themselves safe.
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    NICE has published its first three rapid guidelines on the care of people with suspected and confirmed COVID-19, and in patients without COVID-19. These guidelines have been developed to maximise patient safety whilst making the best use of NHS resources and protecting staff from infection. The guideline has been developed using the interim process and methods for developing rapid guidelines on COVID-19 and recommendations are based on evidence and expert opinion. COVID-19 rapid guideline: critical care COVID-19 rapid guideline: delivery of systemic anticancer treatments COVID-19 rapid guideline: dialysis service delivery.
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    A novel human coronavirus that is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (formerly called HCoV-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019 and is now causing a pandemic. The authors of this research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, analysed the aerosol and surface stability of SARS-CoV-2 and compared it with SARS-CoV-1, the most closely related human coronavirus.
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    The link below shows a powerful essay that has gone viral among patients, public and healthcare staff. It is written by Dr. Joshua Lerner, an Emergency Room (ER) doctor who currently works at the Leominster campus of UMass Memorial Health Alliance-Clinton Hospital in the US. He speaks with passion, anger and frustration at the disregard for staff safety and calls for action from multi million companies who have the resources to help. How did Dr Joshua's words make you feel? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
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    A powerful essay from Dr Joshua Lerner, an Emergency Room (ER) doctor who currently works at the Leominster campus of UMass Memorial Health Alliance-Clinton Hospital in the US...
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    Please note, this is an evolving situation and the advice changes based on the latest published Public Health England guidance.
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    This article, published by The Lancet, is written by Dale fisher, Chair of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) and Annelies Wilder-Smith, co-Chair of the Lancet Infectious Diseases Commission on Preparedness for Emerging Epidemic Threats. They highlight the urgent public health action required in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
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    A blog by the National Institutes of Health Director, Dr. Francis Collins, highlighting relevant research that shows how important it is for everyone to comply with social distancing advice. The National Institutes of Health is a US based, government organisation.
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    Written by Benjamin W. Starnes, MD (professor and chief) and Niten Singh, MD (professor and associate chief) in the division of vascular surgery at the University of Washington, Seattle. This letter, published in Vascular Specialist, provides statistical and personal insight into how coronovirus is playing out for hospitals, and the measures they are having to put in place to deal with overwhelmed services.
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    This video, from US news channel abc6, shows a nurse on the front line expressing a dire need for protective gear to help keep the most vulnerable out of the hospitals. The Ohio Council for Home Care and Hospice is calling on Governor Mike DeWine to act now.
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    In this question and answer session, produced by the World Health Organization, guests discuss the considerations that need to be made specific to disability during the coronavirus pandemic. Considerations include that people with disabilities may be less able to social distance, due to the support required and so will potentially be more at risk of contracting the virus. Some people with disabilities may have further underlying health conditions, respiratory function and immune responses that could make them at higher risk of developing a severe case if they get get the virus.
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    This webpage from Scope provides up to date information about how coronovirus is impacting on their service provision. Content includes information on Scope's: service changes shop closures the Scope helpline the Scope online community.
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    An animated video explaining the science behind the coronovirus, how it affects the human body and what you should do.
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    Alison Moore, from Health Service Journal, reports on Humber Foundation Trust's approach to place co-production with staff and patients at the heart of their achievements. 
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    The CEO of Disability Rights UK has written to the Rt Hon Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, and the Rt Hon Helen Whately MP, Minister for Care, to raise concerns about safeguarding disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and older people in relation to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
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    Patient experience data has long been used as a measure of quality of healthcare, but there remains a gap between measurement and improvement. The focus of the study discussed in this blog, was on understanding how staff approached patient experience projects, why some struggled, and how they made sense of the tasks.
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    Some relevant research that may be of interest - about the importance of staff being hydrated and fed...
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    Rates of induction of labour have been increasing globally to up to one in three pregnancies in many high-income countries. Although guidelines around induction, and strength of the underlying evidence, vary considerably by indication, shared decision-making is increasingly recognised as key. The aim of this study, published in Women and birth, was to identify women’s mode of birth preferences and experiences of shared decision-making for induction of labour.
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    Helen Hughes, Patient Safety Learning's Chief Executive, shares her insight from a three day World Health Organisation (WHO) meeting and the development of its Global Patient Safety Action Plan for 2020-2030.
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    This webpage from the Primary Care Women's Health Forum (PCWHF), contains the latest guidelines, patient materials and articles from the board alongside recommended external resources. Resources include: Intrauterine methods for all indications. How to manage contraceptive provision without face to face consultations. Having a pessary fitted for a vaginal prolapse. Advice following insertion or removal of your contraceptive implant.
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    Dr Annie Hunningher is a Consultant Anaesthetist and a National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) lead.  In this interview, Annie explains why personal experience led her to feel so passionately about patient safety and shares her thoughts on how to engage frontline staff.
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    In this interview, Cheryl Crocker, AHSN Network Patient Safety Director, tells us more about her role and why she is passionate about care homes.
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