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Content ArticleIn this International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) webinar, Eugene Litvak discussed streamlining patient flow to improve access to care and its quality, and reduce cost. Other benefits include lower staff turnover rates, improved organisation culture and improved patient outcomes. Eugene gives a number of examples of hospitals where this 're-engineering' of pathways has resulted in increased performance and reduced risk.
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Content ArticleIf you have a rare disease, the search for a diagnosis can often feel like the longest detective investigation - with no clues, lots of blind alleys and, occasionally, disbelieving authorities. It may seem like things are going nowhere, even for years. Sometimes this is because information on the condition just isn’t available and not enough research has been done; other times it’s difficult to find someone knowledgeable enough to spot the signs of a rare disease. After all, these diseases are so rare that many doctors have never come across them in their careers. Either way, a person with a rare disease can end up playing investigator in their own personal medical mystery – and in some situations even end up solving the case, or devising treatment, for themselves! Read some stories from patients.
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Content ArticleOur experience of attending the Patient Safety Learning Annual Conference and entering our patient safety initiative into the awards.
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Staff safety in the mental healthcare setting
Sarahjane Jones posted an article in Staff safety
I lead a team of multidisciplinary researchers who explore the power of routinely collected data for improving our understanding of patient safety. Our hope is that this insight will be translated into improvements in patient care. On this World Mental Health Day, there is an opportunity to reflect on the implications of harm to staff who deliver care to some of the most vulnerable patients in any healthcare system and what we might do to better protect them from harm. We recently published a study that focussed on staff safety in the mental healthcare setting and I'd like to discuss some of the findings in this blog. -
Content ArticleThe Care Quality Commission (CGC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. They make sure that health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. Independent acute hospitals play an important role in delivering healthcare services in England, providing a range of services, including surgery, diagnostics and medical care. As the independent regulator, the CQC, hold all providers of healthcare to the same standards, regardless of how they are funded.
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Swab safe management to prevent retained swabs
Kathy Nabbie posted an article in Improving systems of care
Implementation of the Swabsafe™ management system at the The Princess Grace Hospital following a never event. -
Content ArticlePatient-controlled personal health records facilitate coordinated management of chronic disease through improved communications among, and about, patients across professional and organisational boundaries. An NHS foundation trust hospital has used 'Patients Know Best' (PKB) to support self-management in patients with inflammatory bowel disease; this paper published in Digital Health presents a case study of usage.
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Content ArticleThis document provides information about NHS England’s and NHS Improvement’s funding in 2019/20. It sets out how NHS England and NHS Improvement will support The NHS Long Term Plan through distribution of funding, people and resources, to transform local health and care systems.
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Content ArticleCall for Concern is an initiative from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust enabling patients and their families to directly refer patients to the critical care outreach team.
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'Storm in a Checklist'
Kathy Nabbie posted an article in Surgery
Kathy Nabbie reflects on the recent flights caught up in Storm Dennis and how 'routine' quickly became 'out of the ordinary'. As with aviation, in surgery we must always do the safety checks for each patient to ensure that every journey for the patient is a safe one. -
Content ArticleThis report by the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) has been published as part of a local pilot, which has been launched to evaluate HSIB’s ability to carry out effective investigations occurring between specific hospitals and trusts. After an evaluation, it will be decided whether this model can be implemented more widely by HSIB. On her admission to her local emergency department (ED) after a fall at her nursing home, Mrs E, a woman aged 93 with dementia, was booked into the ED with incorrect patient details, resulting in a new patient record being created. She was discharged that day but readmitted the next day after a second fall. She was booked into ED with the new patient record (which contained the incorrect patient details) and had an x-ray which confirmed she had a broken hip, subsequently being admitted to hospital for surgery. Mrs E had surgery the next day, during which the pathology department identified a problem with the accuracy of her patient identification information and following surgery her two sets of patient records were merged.
