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Content ArticleThe South Thames Paediatric Network's aim is to enable children within the South Thames region (South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex) to have access to high-quality specialist paediatric care in the place most suitable to their needs, at the appropriate time with a focus on surgery in children, critical care, long term ventilation and gastroenterology.
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Patients harmed after doctors ‘failed to respond’ to nurse concerns
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Two patients at a hospital in West Lancashire came to “avoidable harm” after medical staff failed to act on concerns raised by nurses, according to a health watchdog. The issue was highlighted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following an inspection of children and young people’s services at Ormskirk Hospital in July and August. In there report CQC stated: “In children and young people’s services we found evidence that there had been occasions when medical staff had not responded to nursing concerns, which led to avoidable harm occurring to two patients.” The document added that the two serious incidents, which had both been reported by staff, were "relating to babies". Read full story Source: The Nursing Times, 3 December 2019 -
Content ArticleHomerton University Hospital describes how they have embedded the Redthread Youth Violence Intervention Programme into their A&E department.
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Re-ACT Talks – child deterioration: human factors (March 2015)
Claire Cox posted an article in Paediatrics
Child deterioration: human factors is a presentation by Peter-Marc Fortune, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, Associate Clinical Head, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. -
Content ArticleThis presentation is called Families as Partners in Achieving Safer Care and is delivered in this short film by Kath Evans, Head of Patient Experience – Maternity, Newborn, Children and Young People, NHS England.
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Content ArticleDr Damian Roland, Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the University Hospitals of Leicester and Leicester University introduces Re-ACT, the Respond to Ailing Children Tool, and the knowledge map for healthcare professionals wishing to improve the recognition and management of the deteriorating child.
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Content ArticleInternationally, safety of care in child and adolescent mental health has received limited attention. Attempts to understand this area have mainly focused on issues of safety in relation to safeguarding on the one hand, or lack of access to services on the other. There is a call for clinicians, service developers and researchers to consider harm and safety more generally in child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS). America and other countries have begun to initiate discussions on the possibility of harm caused by psychotherapy, however, the lack of shared definitions as to what constitutes safety and harm present ongoing challenges. To start to rise to these challenges this paper, published in Current Treatment Options in Pediatrics, outlines a possible framework for considering harm in relation to child and adolescent mental health provision.
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RCPCH: Young Epilepsy app
Claire Cox posted an article in Apps for health and care
The Young Epilepsy app is a free information and support tool designed primarily for young people with epilepsy, their parents and carers. The app includes a seizure video function, symptom log and diary to help keep track of seizures and aid diagnosis. It also features key emergency and contact details, an information library tailored for either adults or young people, and provides data in both email and chart format that can be easily shared with a school, carer or medical professional. -
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RCPCH: Epilepsy passport
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
The 2013 Child Health Review into Epilepsy highlighted the importance of clear and comprehensive care plans for parents, schools and others caring for children and young people with epilepsy; providing them with information on how to respond to prolonged seizures. This finding supports the recommendations on emergency care plans as set out in the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) and Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) guidelines. A key recommendation from the review was for clinical teams looking after children and young people with epilepsy to consider introducing an 'epilepsy passport' as a means of improving communication and clarity around ongoing management. -
Content ArticleChildren presenting to district general hospitals with critical illness may need transfer to a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) by a specialist retrieval team. Learning from these PICU transfers would help local hospitals identify areas for improvement to enhance patient safety and clinical care. Local hospital paediatricians often rely on updates from their retrieval service for information about their patients transferred to PICU.
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Content ArticleA US based study to determine whether medical errors, family experience and communication processes improved after implementation of an intervention to standardise the structure of healthcare provider-family communication on family centered rounds.
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Content ArticlePublished in the Journal of Clinical Nursing this paper explores the experiences of the families of young adults with intellectual disabilities at the point of transition from child to adult health services.
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Content ArticlePatient diaries have often been used in the adult intensive care setting. This paper explores the use of diaries with the paediatric population and how this can enhance care and rehabilitation post critical care stay.
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Content ArticleThrough speaking with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Members, child health workers and reviewing existing resources, it was identified that there was a lack of practical 'how to' materials to support professionals in delivering face to face sessions with children, young people and families. The impact was two-fold. Some professionals felt they didn’t have the confidence or skills to involve children, young people or families and ensure they had a voice. In addition, young patients and their families were not consistently involved in providing feedback on services, in identifying gaps, reviewing service deliverables and being involved collaboratively with professionals to develop and test solutions. Ultimately it provides a missed opportunity to provide a service-user centred service that meets their needs as well as the potential for reducing long term disengagement with treatment plans. This would inevitably impact on patient safety. By having a service that actively listens and involves the service users strategically, is fit for purpose, meets the needs of the patient, family and professional and has shared ownership in developing the best service possible, services can become more effective and efficient.
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Content ArticleFollowing the inquest into the death of former patient Amy Allan and the subsequent Preventing Future Deaths report given to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Chief Executive Matthew Shaw would like to outline how the hospital is learning from this and what action has been taken to address the concerns that have been raised.
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Content ArticleReporters in the US from the Houston Chronicle and NBC News spent nine months examining more than 40 cases and spoke with more than 100 attorneys, doctors and current and former state employees. Their reporting reveals that some doctors have diagnosed child abuse with a degree of certainty that critics say is not supported by science. This article, the first in a series, was published in partnership with NBC News.
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Content ArticleThis investigation was prompted by evidence given to the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry which spoke of the benefits of retaining hearts for the purpose of study and teaching and identified Alder Hey as holding the largest collection. Previously, the Director of the Association of Community Health Councils had expressed concerns about contraventions of the Human Tissue Act 1961 to the then Secretary of State for Health.
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Content ArticleHigh numbers of non-urgent attendances at paediatric emergency departments (i.e. attendances for illness that could have safely been treated elsewhere) increases waiting times, inconveniences families, incurs significant costs to the NHS, and reduces the time hospital staff can spend treating severely ill children. This report, produced by the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) in collaboration with the Connecting Care for Children (CC4C) programme, addresses this issue.
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Content ArticleThe Health Foundation's response to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and Home Office consultation on the Online Harms White Paper.
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Content ArticleThis case story highlights the need for a consistent emergency response to convulsions in children, looking specifically at sudden unexpected death in epilepsy. NHS Resolution case stories are based on real events. They are sharing the experience of those involved to help prevent a similar occurrence happening to patients and staff.
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Content ArticleThe RCNi (the publishing company of the Royal College of Nursing) have brought together a selection of their most popular articles on the topic of sepsis from across their journals to inform your practice. Sepsis remains a significant cause of death – it is estimated that 44,000 people die from ‘the silent killer’ every year. RCNi has a wide range of resources available to help nurses improve diagnosis and early management of the condition.
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Content ArticleThe creation of a national network of medical examiners (MEs) was recommended in the Shipman inquiry and was alluded to in the Mid-Staffordshire and Morecambe Bay public inquiries. The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health, Lord O’Shaughnessy, confirmed in October 2017 that a national system of medical examiners will be introduced from April 2019. The ME reforms set out in the 2009 Coroners Act will be implemented nationally in two phases. By April 2019, NHS trusts should set up non-statutory schemes, based upon the national pilots (particularly in Leicester, Sheffield and Gloucester), funded in part from cremation form fees, in preparation for the commencement of a statutory scheme in 2020/21. A National Medical Examiner will be appointed, reporting directly to the National Director of Patient Safety.
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Content ArticleEpilepsy12 was announced as the winner of the 2018 Richard Driscoll Memorial Award for outstanding patient involvement in clinical audit at the annual Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) AGM in London. The submission from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) demonstrated Epilepsy12’s overarching goal to improve NHS healthcare services for children and young people with seizures and epilepsy.
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Content ArticleIn 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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Making schools safer project
Claire Cox posted an article in Allergies
The Anaphylaxis Campaign is the only UK wide charity solely focused on supporting people at risk of severe allergic reactions.
