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Content ArticleNeptune's Dr Catherine Massey, Clinical Director, and Sophie Britt, Lead Trainer, tell us about their initiative and the difference it has made to patient safety and how it felt to win a Patient Safety Learning Award. They also discuss what they plan to do next. View video
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Content ArticleTo ensure consistency and effectiveness of responses to health information under threat, Alberta Health has instituted the Provincial Reportable Incident Response Process (PRIRP) for all health stakeholders managing or accessing Alberta’s provincial Electronic Health Record (EHR), including its subsystems and repositories. This process covers incidents of data confidentiality, data integrity, and data availability and is divided into five phases. PRIRP is applicable to all health stakeholders managing, accessing, or regulating Alberta’s EHR, including its subsystems and repositories. • Health stakeholders use PRIRP to report a suspected or known security incident to Alberta Health. Alberta Health will assess the threat from the incident, and if valid will assemble an Incident Response Team (IRT). The IRT will be led by the Alberta Health Security team and include the reporting health stakeholder(s) and other applicable resources for any particular incident. The IRT will communicate as needed with other stakeholders impacted by the incident.
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Content ArticleDoctors and nurses must adapt their routines and improvise their actions to ensure continued patient safety, and for their roles to be effective and to matter as new technology disrupts their working practices. Research from Lancaster University Management School on the use of a computerised physcian order entry system in a hospital in Saudi Arabia, published in the Journal of Information Technology, found electronic patient records brought in to streamline and improve work caused changes in the division of labour and the expected roles of both physicians and nursing staff. These changes saw disrupted working practices, professional boundaries and professional identities, often requiring complex renegotiations to re-establish these, in order to deliver safe patient care. Managers implementing these systems are often quite unaware of the unintended consequences in their drive for efficiency.
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Content ArticleThis film features frontline staff from Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust explaining how they are using technology to improve the quality of the care they provide to their service users.
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Content ArticleThis film features frontline staff from The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust explaining how they are using technology to improve the lives, treatment and outcomes of patients with sepsis.
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Content ArticleThis film features frontline staff from Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust explaining how they are using technology to improve the quality of care they provide their patients. The team talk about an electronic assessment tool for delirium which has increased screening of people aged 65 years and over from 800 to more than 5,600 in 12 months. They also explain how the tool has helped them increase the number of identified cases per year and reduce the length of stay for these patients. They also talk about the Global Digital Exemplar 'blueprint' they have created of this project, which is now available for other NHS organisations to use as a guide for their own local implementation of similar projects. The GDE blueprints can be found on the FutureNHS platform. To register, email: gdeblueprints@nhsx.nhs.uk
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Content ArticleImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust maternity service provides care for around 10,000 babies and their mothers each year throughout pregnancy, labour, and the postnatal period. The Trust introduced the Cerner electronic patient record system including a maternity module for clinical documentation in 2014. Contractions and foetal and maternal heart rate are monitored using cardiotocograph (CTG) devices. Previously, the readings were printed out on rolls of paper. Midwives added handwritten clinical observations to these ‘foetal strips’ and used them to make critical decisions about the management of labour. These paper records were hard to share to quickly get a second opinion. They were prone to fading over time so did not always provide a permanent record and they were not integrated into the electronic patient records for our patients.
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Content ArticleA Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) is an internationally recognised NHS provider delivering improvements in the quality of care, through the world-class use of digital technologies and information. Exemplars will share their learning and experiences through the creation of blueprints to enable other trusts to follow in their footsteps as quickly and effectively as possible. The GDE Blueprinting workstream forms part of the national Provider Digitisation Programme. GDE blueprints are expected to help other NHS Trusts deliver digital capabilities more quickly and cost effectively than has been possible in the past.
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Content ArticleThe North West London Integration Toolkit is intended to support communities, people and partners as they work towards the shared vision of integrated care. The toolkit is the culmination of over 200 individuals and organisations across North West London coming together to share knowledge and develop ideas as to how to implement whole systems integrated care. The toolkit is a living document and repository of collective learnings. It will evolve and be updated as local areas start to implement their plans and lessons are learned and shared.
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Content ArticleThe Healthcare and Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) identified a significant safety risk posed by the communication and transfer of information between secondary care, primary care and community pharmacy relating to medicines at the time of hospital discharge. A reference event was identified that resulted in a patient inadvertently receiving two anticoagulant medications at the same time, possibly causing an episode of gastrointestinal (digestive tract) bleeding. Increasingly, healthcare facilities in primary and secondary care are introducing digital solutions (electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) systems) to improve medicines safety. However, analysis of the reference event identified how ePMA systems can create their own risks – risks that will need to be addressed as these systems become more widespread. Other risk factors relating to prescribing and the discharge of the patient, including medicines reconciliation, availability of pharmacy services and weekend working, were identified during the investigation.
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Diversity in digital health ‘is a matter of patient safety’
Claire Cox posted an article in Motivating staff
Encouraging diversity in the NHS isn’t simply a matter of inclusion, it’s a matter of patient safety, delegates at the Healthcare Excellence Through Technology (HETT) conference have heard. -
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The Neptune story so far
Neptune posted an article in Other health and care software
Winner of Patient Safety Learning's 'Data and Insight' 2019 award, Neptune is a drug testing monitoring software. Catherine tells the story of Neptune's journey from initial idea to implementation. -
Content ArticleThe Patient Experience Journal (PXJ) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published in association with The Beryl Institute. PXJ is committed to disseminating rigorous knowledge and expanding the global conversation on evidence and innovation on patient experience. Grounded in their core principles, PXJ engages all perspectives, with a strong commitment to patients included.
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Content ArticleFor the past two years, Scalpel Ltd have been building technologies that improve patient safety in surgery. We have found a lack of understanding of why we need to invest in patient safety. In this blog I discuss surgical errors and the urgent need to invest in patient safety.
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Content ArticleDrug monitoring is a cumbersome, time consuming (expensive) and somewhat inaccurate process. The challenge set to ESC Software by a GP was to make an IT solution that was easy to use, comprehensive and reliable that would monitor patient testing to improve safety.
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NHS Digital’s Clinical Safety team – Our day to day work
HannahMcCann posted an article in NHS Digital
On a day to day basis, the NHS Digital Clinical Safety team are involved in several wide-ranging and very different projects. As you know, clinical safety should be part of everything the NHS do. Every project, every programme, every deployment. Clinical safety should be considered, understood and implemented to the highest calibre. So as you can imagine, we are a busy team. For those manufacturers with systems in use, we deal with live incidents, upgrades, further geographical or functionality deployments. For those creating new systems we are supporting them in their clinical risk management process, running hazard workshops, creating hazard logs and writing the supporting documentation. We are constantly reviewing and peer reviewing, assessing compliance and marking against the standard requirements. We assist suppliers and health organisations to self-audit their compliance against the standards so they may improve their clinical safety position. We are assessing new and emerging apps and mobile health solutions to ensure they are going through the same standard of assessment as the traditional computer-based systems and we are providing representation across the NHS to ensure clinical safety remains paramount to the work being done. One of the biggest branches of our role is training delivery. We know first-hand the importance of having a team that are educated and confident in clinical risk management. -
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An introduction to NHS Digital’s Clinical Safety Team
HannahMcCann posted an article in NHS Digital
We are NHS Digital’s Clinical Safety team and I’d like to tell you more about who we are, what we do and why we do it. -
Content ArticleThe use of health technology has grown exponentially in the past few decades, and the proliferation and complexity of this technology has led to new risks to patient safety. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) discussed this issue in their report, Health IT and Patient Safety: Building Safer Systems for Better Care, and concluded that achieving better health care requires “a robust infrastructure that supports learning and improving the safety of health IT.”
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What is NHSX?
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS X
NHSX brings teams from the Department of Health and Social Care, NHS England and NHS Improvement together into one unit to drive digital transformation and lead policy, implementation and change. NHSX is leading the largest digital health and social care transformation programme in the world. With investment of more than £1 billion pounds a year nationally and a significant additional spend locally, NHSX has been created to give staff and citizens the technology they need. -
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Healthier Lancashire & Cumbria - Digital Future
Gary Saunders posted an article in Implementation of improvements
A case study on how Healthier Lancashire and Cumbria have been driving forward their digital strategy. This strategy includes how they are standardising and redesigning digital systems to improve patient safety (see Theme 4 - Manage the system more effectively). -
Content ArticleThe DPSIMS (Patient Safety Incident Management System) project offers an opportunity to use modern technology to improve the health service for patients and carers, healthcare staff, NHS organisations, and decision-makers, so that time and energy can be invested in the right things: working to reduce harm.
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Information Commissioners Officer: guidance on GDPR
Claire Cox posted an article in GDPR
The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) gives guidance on how to handle information about people's healthcare and medical affairs. -
Content ArticleThis joint statement from the Health Research Authority and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, supported and endorsed by the Devolved Administrations, sets out the legal and ethical requirements for seeking and documenting consent using electronic methods. This statement is aimed at electronic signatures obtained for clinical trials.
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NHS Digital - Internet First policy and guidance
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Digital
This is the Internet First policy, standards and guidelines defined by NHS Digital. The document will help health and social care organisations make their digital services accessible over the internet. It describes how to make them secure, scalable and, where possible, consistent. -
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NHS Test Beds programme - NHS England
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Test Beds
The Test Bed Programme brings NHS organisations and industry partners together to test combinations of digital technologies with pathway redesign in real-world settings. The goal is to use the potential of digital technologies to positively transform the way in which healthcare is delivered for patients and carers.
