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This is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Angela talks to us about how her role enables her to promote collaboration for patient safety between different layers of the healthcare system. She also tells us about how Northern Ireland is using World Patient Safety Day 2022 to help the public and healthcare staff understand how they can contribute to medication safety. -
Content ArticleA Treatment Escalation Plan (TEP) is a communication tool designed to improve quality of care in hospital, particularly if patients deteriorate. TEPs aim to reduce variation caused by discontinuity of care, avoid harms caused by inappropriate treatment and promote patients’ priorities and preferences. This article in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh examines the key components of a TEP, how and why TEPs should be implemented and the outcome-related evidence to support their use.
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Content ArticleIn this British Journal of Nursing article, John Tingle, Lecturer in Law, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, discusses some recent reports on the duty of candour and shared decision-making.
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Content ArticleThis blog on the NHS England website looks at how Written Medicine, a service that provides bilingual medication information, is helping to reduce healthcare inequalities and medical errors in London. Written Medicine’s software allows pharmacies and hospitals to translate and print medication information, instructions and warnings. Drawn from a dataset of 3,500 phrases, printed labels are available in fifteen different languages. The bilingual labels help patients take ownership of their treatment, giving them a better understanding of how to take their prescribed medication. The solution is helping to reduce errors, improve medication adherence and enhance patient safety and experience. The blog also looks at the experience of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) using Written Medicine. A 2019 audit showed that the service was valued by patients and highly successful in increasing medication adherence through empowering patients.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Grace Annan-Callcott, Programme Adviser at the Understanding Patient Data programme (UPD) outlines the findings of a new report on the impact of including information about patient data in health charities' guidance. The report investigates whether adding small explanations about the role of patient data in developing health guidance affects people’s: perception of the information or advice general awareness or understanding of how patient data can be used. Working with a group of charities including Asthma + Lung UK, Best Beginnings, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, MS Trust, Stroke Association, National Autistic Society, British Heart Foundation and the Patient Information Forum (PIF), UPD set up a community of practice to research the impact of patient data in health guidance.
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PRSB - 111 referral standard (August 2022)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Processes
The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published the final draft standard for 111 referral, which defines the information that should be shared from 111 or 999 services when a person is referred on to another service. The standard applies to: all 111 and 999 service referrals to wherever the person goes next. referrals through 111 online, call handler or clinical assessment services and 999 services, and is not specific to any triage system. all age groups including children. The standard is UK-wide and was developed in consultation with a wide range of professionals from all four nations, including from 111 services, receiving services, IT suppliers and people who use services. It does not apply to transfers between 111 services (e.g. across a country border) or between 111 and 999 services. -
Content ArticleIn this interview Keith Strahan, Clinical Informatics Lead of the Social Care Programme at NHS Digital, explains why 'About me’ information in records is so important. He describes the process of developing the About Me Standard, published by the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB), alongside family members of people with disabilities and communication difficulties.
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Content ArticlePatient safety culture is the foundation of patient safety and refers to a healthcare organisation’s shared values, norms and beliefs that influence staff’s behaviour and actions. This study in BMJ Open Quality aimed to assess nurses’ reporting on the predictors and outcomes of patient safety culture and the differences between patient safety grades and the number of events reported. It aimed to fill a gap in research by looking at patient safety culture in terms of both predictors and outcomes. The author developed a cross-sectional comparative research design and recruited 300 registered nurses to take part in a survey on patient safety culture. The author found that nurses generally perceived patient safety culture as 'moderate', and identified areas that should be prioritised to improve patient safety culture. They concluded that assessing patient safety culture is the first step in improving hospitals’ overall performance and quality of services, and that improving patient safety practices is essential to improving culture and clinical outcomes.
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Content ArticleDisabled people's voices need to be valued and prioritised in the planning and delivery of health and care services. This long read sets out the findings of research carried out by The King's Fund and Disability Rights UK into how disabled people are currently involved in health and care system design, and what good might look like.
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This is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Jordan talks to us about his journey from drama school to patient safety, how the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) will change the way the NHS looks at safety, and how his love of driving makes him think differently about his role. A transcript of the interview is also available below.- Posted
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In this blog, Lotty Tizzard, Patient Safety Learning’s Content and Engagement Manager, looks at the safety issues faced by people with diabetes in hospital settings. Reflecting on feedback from Twitter users with diabetes, she looks at why so many people with diabetes fear having to stay in hospital, and asks what the NHS and its staff can do to make it a safer, less stressful environment. -
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The Patient Revolution: How we revolt guide (June 2022)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Culture
This guide from The Patient Revolution aims to help healthcare activists contribute to an international movement for care. It summarises the foundations of The Patient Revolution's collective work towards the goal of careful and kind care for all. Underpinning these foundations is the idea that industrialised healthcare undermines compassionate, individualised care and costs more, both in terms of patient safety and financial cost. The guide provides tools and principles to help activists transform the way care is offered and promote genuine patient-healthcare collaboration. -
Content ArticleThe National Guardian’s Office has published its latest annual speaking up data, which summarises the themes and learning from the speaking up data shared by Freedom to Speak Up guardians.
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Content ArticleHow can NHS provider organisations and systems reliably and sustainably improve care? Historically, most improvement interventions have been discrete, small-scale efforts run by individual teams, often without reference to what else is taking place in their trust. However, it is now widely accepted that a patchwork of local interventions is unlikely to deliver sustained improvement or efficiencies on the scale that policymakers and local leaders want. This report by the Health Foundation outlines learning from the evaluation of the NHS partnership with Virginia Mason Institute, which examined how five NHS trusts in England attempted to build a culture of continuous improvement.
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PACE communication tool
Patient_Safety_Learning posted an article in Staff safety
Supporting staff to speak up is essential to patient safety. The PACE communication tool is designed to help anyone in a team challenge an action or behaviour they feel is inappropriate. You can read more about PACE (probe, alert, challenge, emergency) and other communication tools on the Victorian Trauma System website via the link below. -
Content ArticleConversations that leaders have with their team members are the drivers of psychological safety. In this blog, Tanmay Vora looks at how to start conversations that build psychological safety in teams. He includes two infographics which highlight suggested conversation starters for team leaders and team members.
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Content ArticlePatient safety remains a global challenge for society today; in high income countries, it is estimated that one patient in ten is subject to adverse events while receiving hospital care. This article by Laís Junqueira, Quality, Patient Safety and Innovation Manager at Elsevier, in The Journal of mHealth looks at how enabling safer healthcare decision-making could reduce the burden of avoidable harm. Junqueira highlights the need to recognise that non-analytic and implicit decisions occur in healthcare systems, and that these have an impact on patient safety. He argues that as healthcare systems evolve, there must be an increased focus on the importance of an environment that fosters safe decision-making.
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Content ArticleMoral injury is a specific kind of trauma that can happen when when people face situations that deeply violate their conscience or threaten their core values. This blog for Scientific American looks at the experience of ER doctor Torree McGowan when the Delta wave of Covid-19 hit the central Oregon region where she works. It examines the impact that moral injury has had on her mental health and her relationship with patients. The author looks at how Covid-19 hugely increased the incidence of moral injury as people in frontline roles faced ethically wrenching dilemmas every day. The growing realisation that moral injury is a separate diagnosis to other conditions such as PTSD and depression is resulting in a wider range of treatments and trauma therapies. Many of these treatments encourage people to face moral conflicts head-on rather than blotting them out or explaining them away, and they emphasize the importance of community support in long-term recovery.
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Survey - Keeping up to date with NICE guidance (November 2022)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in NICE
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is looking for feedback on how people currently keep up to date with NICE guidance and what they do when an update has been made to NICE guidance. NICE will use your feedback to help shape the future of its guidelines. The survey takes around 10 minutes to complete. The closing date of the survey is 28th November 2022. -
Content ArticlePatient (or lived experience) leadership involves those affected by life-changing illness, injury or disability becoming equal partners in NHS decision-making. Patient leadership champion David Gilbert picks out the most significant developments in a field of increasing relevance to the NHS.
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Content ArticleCorey Adams, Researcher at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, shares the impact of trauma on the patient experience. Corey shares his personal story of trauma and how we can alleviate the negative effects of trauma by building a culture of safety, kindness, trust, and respect.
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Content ArticleThis framework produced by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) aims to improve how healthcare organisations recognise and respond to children at risk of deterioration. A safer system can work in partnership with families and patients, develop a patient safety culture and support ongoing learning. The framework covers: Patient safety culture Partnership with families Recognising deterioration Responding to deterioriation Open and consistent learning Education and training
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Content ArticleThis webpage provides information about patient rights and responsibilities while under the care of John Hopkin's Children's Center. It includes the following resources and guides: Patient and family handbook Preparation Pain management Your child’s care team Rooms Meals Visitation Patient safety Parent and family journal
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Content ArticleThe aim of this study in Australian Critical Care was to develop an evidence-based paediatric early warning system for infants and children, that takes into consideration a variety of paediatric healthcare contexts and addresses barriers to escalation of care. The development process resulted in an agreed uniform ESCALATION system incorporating a whole-system approach to promote critical thinking, situational awareness for the early recognition of paediatric clinical deterioration as well as timely and effective escalation of care. Incorporating family involvement was an important and new component of the system.
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Content Article100 days into her role as interim Chief Inspector at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), Dr Rosie Pennyworth reflects on her focus so far. She talks about spending time developing close relationships with HSIB staff to ensure she is able to effectively guide them through the transformation process as the organisation becomes the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB). She also talks about keeping patients and families at the centre of future strategy and developing an international network with counterpart organisations in the US, Sweden and Norway.
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