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NHS leadership and culture: The King's Fund position (2019)
Claire Cox posted an article in Inquiries
Collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leadership is essential to deliver the highest quality care for patients and tackle deep-seated cultural issues in the NHS, including unacceptable levels of work-related stress, bullying and discrimination. Staff are the NHS’s greatest asset, but a number of challenges are taking a significant toll on the workforce. In addition to severe workforce pressures, including large numbers of staff vacancies, surveys have shown that staff experiences of working in the NHS can be very negative. In the 2018 NHS staff survey, 40 per cent of NHS staff reported feeling unwell as a result of work-related stress in the previous 12 months, 13 per cent said they had experienced bullying or harassment from managers and 19 per cent experienced it from other colleagues. This article gives the response from the Kingsfund on the recent NHS staff survey.- Posted
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Content ArticleSteve Turner is a healthcare professional, a nurse prescriber with experience in senior management in both the NHS and private sectors. He works as a clinician with vulnerable adults on the margins of society. In this blog, published on Care Right Now, he reflects on the situation in England based on his experiences and those of the many people he has met as a result. All of whom experienced the backlash that can happen when organisational reputation trumps patient safety. One thing many of us have in common is that, put simply, we never intended to become known as ‘whistleblowers’ we were just trying to do our job to the best of our ability.
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Why is psychological safety being ignored?
Claire Cox posted an article in Motivating staff
John Dobbin is the editor of Thinking Digitally. Here he has written a blog on some of the barriers to psychological safety and why it is being ignored in the work place.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Gosport Independent Panel was set up to address concerns raised by families over a number of years about the initial care of their relatives in Gosport War Memorial Hospital and the subsequent investigations into their deaths. The Report is an in-depth analysis of the Gosport Independent Panel’s findings. It explains how the information reviewed by the Panel informed those findings and illustrates how the disclosed documents add to public understanding of events at the hospital and their aftermath.
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Content ArticleIn his blog, David Naylor from the leadership and organisational development team at The Kings Fund, discusses the importance of creating a culture where staff feel able to speak freely and challenge decisions to improve patient safety.
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RCN: A guide to raising concerns
Claire Cox posted an article in Whistle blowing
This resource from the Royal College of Nursing, will support you to raise concerns wherever you work – in the NHS or independent sector – and whether you raise a concern as an individual or as part of a group.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn this article on The People Space, Megan Reitz, professor at Hult International Business School, outlines the TRUTH framework to help individuals, teams and organisations unpick their conversational habits and to both 'speak up' and 'listen up'.
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Content ArticleThe highest performing teams have one thing in common: psychological safety – the belief that you won’t be punished when you make a mistake. Studies show that psychological safety allows for moderate risk-taking, speaking your mind, creativity, and sticking your neck out without fear of having it cut off – just the types of behaviour that lead to market breakthroughs. This article in the Harvard Business Review suggests six practical points to create a psychologically safe environment.
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Henrietta Hughes: The importance of speaking up in the NHS
Claire Cox posted an article in Speak Up Guardians
Rob Behrens talks to Dr Henrietta Hughes, the National Guardian for the NHS. Dr Hughes explains how her career as a GP has helped her in her national role and how NHS organisations can better support their Freedom To Speak Up Guardians.- Posted
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Content ArticleSpeaking up, raising concerns, whistleblowing. However you describe it, we know it can be daunting. Supporting 'National Speak Up Month' , the General Medical Council (GMC) has provided advice and tools to help you.
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Content ArticleA bold, original book that sheds new light on our understanding of the role courage plays in healthcare. Critically analysing both the positive and negative implications of the presence of courage in delivering care, the authors present literature, theory, and detailed examples from practice, including whistleblowers' own accounts of courage-demanding situations. With a view to promoting better patient outcomes, well-being for practitioners, and support for those who feel compelled to ‘speak out’ and challenge bad practice, Courage in Healthcare is an invaluable resource for any healthcare practitioner working in the NHS today, a rallying call and a practical guide.
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Content ArticleIn this blog post, Vince discusses the challenges registrants face when something goes wrong, and why employers and regulators should be doing more to reassure professionals that openness is best for everyone.
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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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Content ArticleThe All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Whistleblowing was launched in July 2018 to look at the case for an Independent Office for the Whistleblower. The APPG have set an ambitious workplan aiming to take back the UK’s lead on this legislation, proposing to deliver world class, gold standard draft legislation – a global solution to a global problem. The objectives of the APPG for Whistleblowing are: Influencing policies and decisions that affect whistleblowers globally. Drafting legislation to ensure effective protection for whistleblowers. Commissioning and publishing research, based on our work with whistleblowers and relevant groups and stakeholders across all sectors. Engaging our supporters in campaigns to influence decisions affecting whistleblowers. Giving whistleblowers safe platforms to speak out on issues affecting them. Promoting positive social attitudes towards whistleblowing. Encouraging MPs to promote positive recognition for whistleblowers. Supporting and upskilling MPs and their staff to identify and manage constituent whistleblower cases.
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What it feels like working with unsafe staffing
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This blog has been written by a healthcare worker and demonstrates the reality of what it is like caring for patients and families while being chronically low on staff. They describe the impact this has on staff morale and the impact it has on patients, patients family members and the relationship between staff and patients.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn recent years, it’s become clear that some staff don’t have the knowledge or confidence to raise concerns about patient safety. Health Education England has produced this short video explaining what type of concerns need to be raised, whether that be on individual practice or systemic problems.
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Freedom to Speak Up Guardian job description (March 2018)
Claire Cox posted an article in Speak Up Guardians
This is the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian job description. Use it for reference or for a template to advertise for a Freedom to Speak Up Guardian in you trust/sector.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe National Guardian’s Office (NGO) was established following recommendations made in the Freedom To Speak Up Review by Sir Robert Francis QC. The NGO works to effect cultural change in the NHS so that speaking up becomes business as usual. The office leads, trains and supports a network of Freedom to Speak Up, Guardians (FTSUGs) in England, conducts case reviews, and works in partnership with the wider health system to support learning and improvement. The office is not a regulator, but is sponsored by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), NHS England and NHS Improvement.
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Content ArticleThe National Guardian’s Office is an independent, non-statutory body with the remit to lead culture change in the NHS so that speaking up becomes business as usual. The office is not a regulator, but is sponsored by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), NHS England and NHS Improvement.
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Why we need courage to keep our patients safe
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Florence in the Machine
An insightful blog from a nurse on the frontline. The author of this blog has requested to stay anonymous.- Posted
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NHS Improvement: A Just Culture guide – animation (15 March 2018)
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
A Just Culture guide helps NHS managers ensure staff involved in a patient safety incident are treated fairly, and supports a culture of openness to maximise opportunities to learn from mistakes.- Posted
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Content ArticleSee how incivility affects all of us in the NHS and how that can impact patient safety. Join the staff of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust on their journey as they reflect on the real-life effects of both incivility and active kindness. This video was devised, filmed and produced by the Elena Power Simulation Centre.
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Whistleblowing disclosures joint report 2019
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Whistle blowing
On April 1 2017, a new legal duty came into force which required all prescribed bodies to publish an annual report on the whistleblowing disclosures made to them by workers. The Nursing and Midwifery Council has published a a joint whistleblowing disclosures report with other healthcare regulators. The aim in this report is to be transparent about how we handle disclosures, highlight the action taken about these issues, and to improve collaboration across the health sector. As each regulator has different statutory responsibilities and operating models, a list of actions has been devised that can accurately describe the handling of disclosures in each organisation.- Posted
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Content ArticleEveryone should be treated with dignity and respect at work. Bullying and harassment is unacceptable and constitutes a violation of human and legal rights that can lead to criminal prosecution and civil law claims. Employers have a duty of care to provide a safe and healthy working environment for their staff, and this is an implied term of every contract of employment. Bullying and harassment undermines physical and mental health, frequently resulting in poor work performance. Possible consequences include: insomnia and inability to relax loss of confidence and self-doubt loss of appetite hypervigilance and excessive double-checking of all actions inability to switch off from work.
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Content ArticleIn this article published in JAN Interactive, Catherine Best critiques the importance of understanding Human Factors in ensuring the delivery of safe and effective care.
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