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Content ArticleUpdatable estimates of COVID-19 onset, progression, and trajectories underpin pandemic mitigation efforts. To identify and characterise disease trajectories, Thygesen et al. aimed to define and validate ten COVID-19 phenotypes from nationwide linked electronic health records (EHR) using an extensible framework. Their analyses illustrate the wide spectrum of disease trajectories as shown by differences in incidence, survival, and clinical pathways. The authors have provided a modular analytical framework that can be used to monitor the impact of the pandemic and generate evidence of clinical and policy relevance using multiple EHR sources.
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Content ArticleReporting to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) is largely voluntary, to encourage openness and continual increases in reporting to facilitate learning from error. Increases in the number of incidents reported reflects an improved reporting culture and should not be interpreted as a decrease in the safety of the NHS. Equally, a decrease cannot be interpreted as an increase in the safety of the NHS. This report covers the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in England, from April 2020 through to the end of March 2021, when cases had declined rapidly. The number of incidents reported from April 2020 to March 2021 was 2,109,057, and represent a small decrease of 6.1% compared to April 2019 to March 2020 (2,246,622).
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Content ArticleAccording to new data released by the NHS, a total of 379 medical malpractices called ‘Never Events’ were recorded between 1 April 2021 and 28 February 2022. The term is defined by the service as “serious, largely preventable patient safety incidents that should not occur if healthcare providers have implemented existing national guidance or safety recommendations.” See below Statista's chart representing the data.
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Content ArticleIn this three-year strategy, NHS Resolution outlines its strategic priorities to 2025. The four priority areas in the new strategy are: Deliver fair resolution – focussing our resources to avoid patients and healthcare staff having to go through formal processes that can be distressing and costly Share data and insights to improve services – sharing our unique data and insights to reduce risk and help improve the healthcare system Collaborate to improve maternity outcomes – working with others in the maternity care system to reduce neonatal harm Invest in our people and systems – building up our corporate capacity and capabilities internally to support the health and legal systems. These priorities aim to help the organisation contribute to: a reduction in harm to patients. a reduction in the distress caused to patients and healthcare staff involved when a claim or concern arises. a reduction in the cost required to deliver fair resolution. This will release public funds for other priorities, including healthcare. ensuring indemnity arrangements are a driver for positive change across the healthcare system. NHS Resolution has also produced a video summary of the strategy.
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Content ArticleIn this guest blog for the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB), Taffy Gatawa, Chief Information and Compliance Officer at everyLIFE Technologies, talks about the importance of ensuring that healthcare technologies comply with recognised standards. She discusses everyLIFE's experience on PRSB’s Standards Partnership Scheme, and their journey to implementing standards in their digital products. Taffy describes a process of learning and feedback, achieved through desktop research, clinical reviews and critical engagement with PRSB and customers.
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Content Article‘Digital clinical safety’ refers to avoiding harm to patients and staff that could be caused by technologies manufactured, implemented and used in the health service. In this blog, Dr Kelsey Flott, Deputy Director of Patient Safety at the NHS Transformation Directorate, looks at the importance of digital clinical safety in driving quality improvement. She talks about how the Digital Clinical Strategy is being implemented and the drive to collect better evidence about the effectiveness of improvement technologies.
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Content ArticleIn 2010, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) reported the first national incidence rate of patient harm events in hospitals—27% of hospitalised Medicare patients experienced harm in October 2008. During that month, hospital care associated with these events cost Medicare and patients an estimated $324 million in reimbursement, coinsurance, and deductible payments. Nearly half of these events were preventable. OIG conducted a new study to update the national incidence rate of patient harm events among hospitalised Medicare patients in October 2018. This work included calculating a new rate of preventable events and updating the cost of patient harm to the Medicare programme.
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Content ArticleThe recent NHS staff survey showed worrying results across all staff groups, but it was midwives who reported the sharpest decline in how satisfied they are in their work. Lucina Rolewicz takes a closer look at their responses to the survey, and emphasises the importance of improving the situation.
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MedicAlert
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The MedicAlert Foundation first launched in Turlock, California, in 1956, before coming to the UK over 55 years ago. As the pioneers of medical IDs, they remain the only charity provider of life-saving medical ID services worldwide. MedicAlert UK is based in Buckinghamshire, with a production unit creating bespoke medical ID jewellery and a member services team including in-house Registered Nurses to support our 42,000 members. -
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Menopause and the workplace: Fawcett Society 2022
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Women's health
Workplaces are failing menopausal women and change is urgently needed. A report from the Fawcett Society 'Menopause and the Workplace'' delves into women’s experiences at work and is the largest representative survey of menopausal women conducted in the UK. -
Content ArticleMaternity services shouldn’t be waiting for whistle-blowers or inquiries to alert them to problems, says Dr Mark Ratnarajah, a practising paediatrician and managing director of C2-Ai. Instead systematic transdisciplinary reviews and real-time data should support a culture of shared learning, that helps ensure patient safety is everybody’s responsibility.
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Patient Safety Authority Annual Report 2021
Sam posted an article in International patient safety
The Patient Safety Authority (PSA) share its 2021 annual report, highlighting the agency’s expansion of education and reporting efforts to improve patient safety throughout the commonwealth. PSA is an independent state agency that collects reports of patient safety events from Pennsylvania healthcare facilities. Pennsylvania is the only state that requires acute care facilities to report all incidents of harm (serious events) or potential for harm (incidents). -
Content ArticleThe rapid uptake of digital healthcare channels offers huge benefits, but evidence also suggests a close correlation between digital exclusion and social disadvantage. People with protected characteristics under the Equality Act are among those least likely to have access to the internet and the skills needed to use it. Experts from across health and care came together to contribute to "Access Denied", a new whitepaper on digital health inequalities. This whitepaper sets out recommendations to ensure that those innovating in digital healthcare can do so in a way which addresses healthcare inequalities.
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Canadian Institute for Health Information
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in International patient safety
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada. Stakeholders use the broad range of health system databases, measurements and standards, together with the evidence-based reports and analyses, in their decision-making processes. -
Content ArticleGender is emerging as a significant factor in the social, economic, and health effects of COVID-19. However, most existing studies have focused on its direct impact on health. Here, we aimed to explore the indirect effects of COVID-19 on gender disparities globally. The most significant gender gaps identified in our study show intensified levels of pre-existing widespread inequalities between women and men during the COVID-19 pandemic. Political and social leaders should prioritise policies that enable and encourage women to participate in the labour force and continue their education, thereby equipping and enabling them with greater ability to overcome the barriers they face.
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Content ArticleThe Government's Race Disparity Unit has published data relating to NHS staff reports of discrimination at work. The charts, tables and commentary on this page cover survey data from 2019, and the data from 2020 is available to download without commentary. 300 NHS organisations took part in the staff survey in 2019, including 229 NHS trusts.
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Content ArticleNHS England have released statistics on referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times for consultant-led elective care. The statistics include patients waiting to start treatment at the end of July 2022 and patients who were treated during July 2022.
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Content ArticleThis US study in the journal Medical Care aimed to assess the accuracy of Nursing Home Compare's (NHC) pressure ulcer measures, which are chief indicators of nursing home patient safety. The authors identified hospital admissions for pressure ulcers and linked these to nursing home-reported data at the patient level. They then calculated the percentages of pressure ulcers that were appropriately reported by stage, long-stay versus short-stay status, and race. Next, they estimated the correlation between an alternative claims-based measure of pressure ulcer events and NHC-reported ratings. The study found that pressure ulcers were substantially underreported in data used by NHC to measure patient safety. The authors call for alternative approaches to improve surveillance of health care quality in nursing homes.
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Content ArticleIn 2019, the Korean National Patient Safety Incidents Inquiry was conducted in the Republic of Korea to identify the national-level incidence of adverse events. This study determined the incidence and detailed the characteristics of adverse events at 15 regional public hospitals in the Republic of Korea. The authors concluded that a review of medical records aids in identifying adverse events in medical institutions and helps prioritise actions to reduce their incidence.
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Content ArticleThe Department of Health today published the 2021/22 Inpatient, Day Case and Outpatient Hospital Statistics for Northern Ireland. Analysed by HSC Trust, hospital and specialty, these Hospital Statistics publications outline: the number of inpatient and day case admissions. the number of attendances at consultant led outpatient services in Northern Ireland during 2021/22.
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Content ArticleRAND Corporation and MedStar researchers examined the intersection of patient safety and racism, focusing on patient safety and health equity from clinician leaders' perspectives. An overarching emphasis of the work concerned the impact of racism and other related factors (i.e., bias) on patient safety events and potential interventions or changes (such as creating a culture of speaking up about racism in care) that can help prevent such events.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of the Learn from patient safety events (LFPSE) service (previously known during development as the Patient Safety Incident Management System - PSIMS) is to enable learning from patient safety events – incidents, risks, outcomes of concern and also things that went well. Our ability to protect future patients from harm depends on promoting a culture that welcomes and encourages the recording of events. It is essential to abide by these principles to ensure that we continue to successfully learn from patient safety events and reduce harm. This document sets out the circumstances in which LFPSE data are the appropriate data source to be used and describes their appropriate use. These principles emphasise the purpose and characteristics of LFPSE data, and promote consistency across data users. It is essential that users of LFPSE data understand and represent it appropriately, as inappropriate presentations of LFPSE data could discourage recording.
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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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Content ArticleIn this blog, Charlotte Clayton, midwife and clinical advisor at the Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Apps (ORCHA), explores how providing the right training and support for maternity staff is key to seeing the benefits tech can bring to quality of care and workload.
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Content ArticleRecent data shows that people aged 10–25 in the poorest areas of the UK will die earlier than those in richer areas. It’s also predicted that people aged 10–14 living in the most deprived areas will live 18 more years in ill health than their peers in the least deprived areas. In this blog for The Health Foundation, Association for Young People's Health (AYPH) policy fellow Rachael McKeown outlines data recently published by AYPH that shows the scale and complexity of young people’s health inequalities, and the need for action.
