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Content ArticleThis study in the journal Medical Devices: Evidence and Research aimed to assess health system experiences of implementing Unique Device Identifier (UDI) systems for medical devices. Although the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA formalised the Unique Device Identification System Rule in 2013, parallel regulatory requirement for US health systems to use UDIs is lacking. Through semi-structured interviews, the authors identified barriers to implementing UDI systems and strategies to overcome them.
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Waiting Lists Tracker
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Suggest a useful website
Get information on waiting times for treatment at NHS Trusts in England. This data is sourced from NHS England, and is published two months in arrears. Please note that some data may not be available. This could be because a) the Trust does not provide treatment for the selected condition, b) data has not been submitted, or c) some services (e.g. mental health) are not covered in the source data. -
Content ArticleA broken hip or ‘hip fracture’ is a serious injury, which each year in the UK leads to around 75,000 people needing hospital admission, surgery and anaesthesia, followed by weeks of rehabilitation in hospital and the community. The National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) is an online platform that uses real-time data to drive Quality Improvement (QI) across all 163 hospitals that look after patients with hip fractures in England and Wales. This report highlights key research carried out using data from the NHFD in 2021, and makes a number of recommendations to improve treatment and outcomes for patients with hip fractures.
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Content ArticleThis article, published by the Journal of Clinical Nursing, argues there can be no healthy patient safety culture where Datix or other electronic incident reporting systems (EIRS) are trivialised and weaponised. Nurses at every level can support and enable the blame free culture where nurses use Datix to genuinely promote patient safety. Follow the link below to download the full article. Other blogs you may also be interested in: “I’m going to Datix you” – a blog from Datix’s former chief executive and now chairman of Patient Safety Learning, Jonathan Hazan Silent witness: My experience when filing an incident report – newly qualified nurse describes what happened when she reported her first Datix for a serious incident. Marking your own homework – an anonymous blog
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Content ArticleSince the Institute of Medicine’s 1999 report To Err is Human, it has been known that upwards of 100,000 deaths due to preventable medical errors occur each year. In the twenty years since then, little progress has been made in the way of reducing the number of these deaths and estimates now suggest between 200- 440,000 Americans are dying preventably each year. One major component many believe is lacking in the United States is a national agency that focuses on responsibility and accountability for patient safety. The Patient Safety Movement Foundation has published a white paper assessing the feasibility of creating a National Patient Safety Board to reduce preventable medical errors in facilities across the country.
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Content ArticleThis article describes the qualitative methodology developed for use in CIRAS (Confidential Incident Reporting and Analysis System), the confidential database set up for the UK railways by the University of Strathclyde. CIRAS is a project in which qualitative safety data are disidentified and then stored and analysed in a central database. Due to the confidential nature of the data provided, conventional (positivist) methods of checking their accuracy are not applicable; therefore a new methodology was developed – the Applied Hermeneutic Methodology (AHM). Based on Paul Ricoeur’s ‘hermeneutic arc’, this methodology uses appropriate computer software to provide a method of analysis that can be shown to be reliable (in the sense that consensus in interpretations between different interpreters can be demonstrated). Moreover, given that the classifiers of the textual elements can be represented in numeric form, AHM crosses the ‘qualitative–quantitative divide’. It is suggested that this methodology is more rigorous and philosophically coherent than existing methodologies and that it has implications for all areas of the health and social sciences where qualitative texts are analysed.
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Content ArticleAuthors of this article, published by Health Europa, argue that proactive patient safety and risk prevention are key to helping healthcare organisations surveil and mitigate global and local risks.
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Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt)
Claire Cox posted an article in Data and insight
The Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt) is a joint programme between NHS Digital and the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) which is looking to adopt common standards for data collections and performance measures across both the NHS and private healthcare. This will ensure that relevant information is consistently recorded and available so it can be more easily analysed and compared. -
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NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Health inequalities
The Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) is a set of metrics that would requires NHS organisations to demonstrate progress against a number of indicators of race equality, including a specific indicator to address the low representation of black and minority ethnic (BME) staff on Boards. NHS providers are expected to show progress against a number of indicators of workforce equality, including a specific indicator to address the low numbers of BME board members across the organisation. Follow the link below to find out more about WRES and to access the annual reports. -
Content ArticleIn this US-based article, Christopher Jason discusses recent evidence that highlights how electronic health records (EHRs) have the potential to cause patient harm in various ways.
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Content ArticleProviding patients with access to electronic health records (EHRs) may improve quality of care by providing patients with their personal health information and involving them as key stakeholders in the self-management of their health and disease. With the widespread use of these digital solutions, there is a growing need to evaluate their impact, in order to better understand their risks and benefits and to inform health policies that are both patient-centred and evidence-based. The objective of this paper, published by BMJ Quality & Safety, was to evaluate the impact of sharing electronic health records (EHRs) with patients and map it across six domains of quality of care: patient-centredness effectiveness efficiency timeliness equity safety.
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Content ArticleThe database of people with diabetes who are eligible for diabetic eye screening (DES) in England is available on GP registration systems. Local screening services can access it electronically through the GP2DRS IT system, or by requesting a copy from the GP practice. Eligible individuals remain on the local service register until they are no longer part of the local service cohort – for example if they have moved away from the area or died. These individuals then become ‘off register’ and should be managed in accordance with the consent and cohort management guidance. People with diabetes may not need to attend routine digital screening while under the care of ophthalmology or being seen in surveillance clinics, but they remain eligible unless they meet the ‘off register’ criteria. Each year, local screening services will recall many individuals for screening who are no longer registered with a GP in England and are ‘untraceable’. Many of these individuals may no longer live in England. Providers should use this guidance to manage untraceable individuals. It’s only applicable in cases where an individual is no longer registered with a GP in England.
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Content ArticleNHS Digital are proposing to make changes in how private healthcare data is collected and with whom it is shared. This will involve trialling the suitability of existing NHS systems for the collection of private healthcare data and bringing it into line with the standards, processes and systems used for NHS funded care. These proposed changes are based on feedback the Acute Data Alignment Programme (ADAPt) programme has already received from a wide range of stakeholders. Wider insight from private and NHS healthcare providers, clinicians, the public and other key stakeholders is now welcomed as part of this consultation to ensure that we address any significant issues and concerns which could prevent the successful implementation of these changes. We expect this survey will take no more than 20 minutes to complete but will vary depending on the level of detail in your response.
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Monitoring joint replacement surgery (August 2019)
Claire Cox posted an article in Research, data and insight
Thousands of people have joint replacement surgery every year and the National Joint Registry gathers together data on the outcomes of these surgeries. This allows surgeons and hospitals to monitor the success of their operations and ensure that the devices used are safe and effective. Individuals can also use the Registry to inform themselves better about the surgery which they are having. This short video explains what data is used and, more importantly, how it is used to ensure best outcomes for patients. -
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Why do we need to talk about patient data?
Claire Cox posted an article in Actions in response to data
This short video, by Understanding Patient Data, shows people talking about why it's important to use patient data, and why we need to better explain the benefits and safeguards. -
Content ArticleFollowing the emergence of coronavirus and its spread outside of China, Europe is now experiencing large epidemics. In response, many European countries have implemented unprecedented non-pharmaceutical interventions including case isolation, the closure of schools and universities, banning of mass gatherings and/or public events and most recently, widescale social distancing including local and national lockdowns. In this report, from Imperial College London, authors use a model (semi-mechanistic Bayesian hierarchical) to attempt to understand the impact of these interventions across 11 European countries.
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Content ArticleThis website allows patients and professionals to report suspected side effects to medicines or medical device and diagnostic adverse incidents used in coronavirus treatment to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) to ensure safe and effective use. When reporting patients and healthcare professionals are encouraged to provide as much information as possible.
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Content ArticleThe Patient Safety Database (PSD), previously called Anesthesia Safety Network, is committed in the delivery of better perioperative care. Its primary goal is to make visible the lack of reliability of healthcare and the absolute necessity to build a new system for improving patient safety. They have begun by developing an open and anonymous incident reporting system focused on non-technical skills. Each quarter they summarise in their newsletter cases reported on the platform. Read the latest newsletter.
