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Work as is done, work as imagined
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This blog highlights: The juxtaposition of how work is carried out by healthcare staff compared to the work that policy makers are 'imagining' healthcare workers are doing. The need for healthcare staff to be part of patient safety solutions.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis short video from the Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation describes the importance of speaking up, what the process is and how speaking up will improve patient safety.
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Content ArticleSleep is fundamental to good health. Healthcare professionals receive little teaching on the importance of sleep, particularly with respect to their own health when working night shifts. Knowledge of basic sleep physiology, together with simple strategies to improve core sleep and the ability to cope with working nights, can result in significant improvements both for healthcare professionals and for the patients they care for. This article by Dr Mike Farquhar, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education & Practice, gives practical advice for night shift workers and, generally, how to improve your quality of sleep.
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What is the British Medical Association (BMA)?
Claire Cox posted an article in Workforce and resources
The British Medical Association (BMA) is the trade union and professional body for doctors in the UK.- Posted
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NHS Improvement: A Just Culture guide (updated 14 December 2018)
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
The fair treatment of staff supports a culture of fairness, openness and learning in the NHS by making staff feel confident to speak up when things go wrong, rather than fearing blame. Supporting staff to be open about mistakes allows valuable lessons to be learnt so the same errors can be prevented from being repeated. In any organisations or teams where a blame culture is still prevalent, this guide will be a powerful tool in promoting cultural change. -
Content ArticleEngaging with general practices during inspections gives valuable insight into their experiences. Feedback shows that although inspection reports highlight the areas of concern and risk that need to improve, practices want to know more about how to actually improve from a rating of 'requires improvement' or 'inadequate'. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) selected 10 practices throughout the country that had each made significant improvements from their initial inspection to their most recent, and whose overall rating had improved. These 10 case studies highlight some clear actions that other practices can use to help them learn and improve.
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Content ArticleDoctors feel that they are increasingly expected to treat patients in an unsafe, unsupportive environment, contributing to a vicious cycle of low morale and poor rates of recruitment and retention. This can and must change. This British Medical Association (BMA) report draws on the experience and expertise of BMA members across all branches of medical practice in the UK. It outlines where change is needed to ensure we safeguard patient care, make the NHS a great place to work and transform services for the better. This report sets out specific recommendations aimed at government and NHS bodies.
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Content ArticleBrighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust found a key challenge in tackling emergency department (ED) doctors' low levels of satisfaction, high rates of burnout and high turnover was because of the way shifts were organised. They found that while ED could be a highly pressurised environment that could contribute to these issues, another key challenge was the way shifts were organised and the lack of flexibility that had become a standard part of being an ED doctor.
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NHS at 70: The Story Of Our Lives
Claire Cox posted an article in Stories from the front line
NHS at 70: The Story Of Our Lives is a national programme of work supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and led by The University of Manchester recording stories from people who worked and were cared for by the NHS since its creation in 1948. These stories will be available on the public Digital Archive and will provide a lasting resource for audiences to discover NHS history through the voices of the people who have worked and were cared for by the NHS since 1948. -
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Birmingham University Hospitals Trust: Poster for staff going home
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
This poster from Birmingham University Hospitals Trust is aimed at staff leaving to go home after their shift.- Posted
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The Point of Care Foundation – Behind closed doors (July 2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Culture
This briefing highlights evidence on NHS staff, their experience at work, the pressures they face and the consequences for patients. The Point of Care Foundation believes that it’s critically important that NHS employers pay attention to staff and their experience at work because when staff feel positive and engaged with work it has a positive impact on patient experience.- Posted
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Oxford University surgical lectures: Retained swabs
Claire Cox posted an article in By health and care staff
Dr Clare Dollery reflects on a retained swab 'never event' in Churchill Hospital theatres. Incidents, such as operating on the wrong body part or leaving instruments inside patients are categorised by the Department of Health as 'never events'. Dr Dollery is Oxford University Hospital's Deputy Medical Director. The Surgical Grand Rounds lecture series, hosted by the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences at Oxford University, is the key educational meeting for consultants, juniors and medical students. Presentations revolve around clinical cases.- Posted
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Content ArticleTh British Medical Association provide a number of services to help and advise doctors who are experiencing bullying at work but also to those who may have witnessed examples of bullying and wish to raise concerns. This video offers some advice for staff affected.
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JAMA: Time of day and the decision to prescribe antibiotics (December 2014)
Claire Cox posted an article in Culture
This research paper discusses the problem of decision fatigue and how it can impact patient safety. The authors hypothesised that decision fatigue, if present, would increase clinicians’ likelihood of prescribing antibiotics for patients presenting with acute respiratory infections as clinic sessions wore on.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis 15 minute video from the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust gives an introduction to what human factors is within healthcare.
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Content ArticleThis report from the King's Fund explores in more detail the role of leaders in engaging a range of significant others in improving health and healthcare.
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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 ArticlePolicy to date has mostly focused on the role of 'whistleblowers' in raising concerns about quality and safety of patient care in healthcare settings. However, most opportunities for personnel to identify and act on these concerns are likely to occur much further upstream, in the day-to-day mundane interactions of everyday work. Using qualitative data from over 900 hours of ethnographic observation and 98 interviews across 19 English intensive care units (ICUs), Tarrant et al., in a paper published in Social Science & Medicine, studied how personnel gave voice to concerns about patient safety or poor practice.
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Content ArticleThis project is led by the Department of Anaesthesia at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Northumbria University Newcastle. The aim is to co-design a fatigue risk management strategy at the Trust to help teams effectively manage night shift fatigue.
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Content ArticlePatients with delirium have changes in their thinking and are often confused and cannot pay attention. About half of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) have delirium during their stay. Research has shown that patients with delirium are more likely to die or to have long-term brain problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental health issues, than those without delirium. Although nurses and doctors have tools to measure delirium in the ICU, it can be hard to identify and, in some cases, may be missed. Family members may be the first to notice that their loved ones have changes in their thinking or cannot pay attention. There are tools called the Family Confusion Assessment Method (FAM-CAM) and Sour Seven questionnaire that can be used by family members to detect delirium. However, neither of these tools has been used in an ICU. This study from Krewulak et al., published in CmajOPEN, shows that these tools can be used by family members to measure delirium in the ICU. The results from this study could lead to a change in policy that would involve partnering with family members to improve the diagnosis of delirium in the ICU. In turn, this would improve patient and family care and outcomes in the ICU.
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Content ArticleRhidian Bramley is a consultant radiologist and associate medical director at the Christie NHS FoundationTrust. In this blog he discusses how unintended consequences from implementation of digital solutions can have an impact on patient safety.
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Content ArticleThis infographic was produced by Matthew Bowker, a junior doctor from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Fifty per cent of older people have asymptomatic bacteraemia in their urine. This infographic advises when to dip urine in older adults. Produced with guidance from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN).
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How should doctors discuss obesity with patients?
Claire Cox posted an article in Obesity
How can you discuss obesity with your patients in a respectful manner? Many doctors feel uncomfortable bringing up the topic of weight since they are afraid of being rude. So how should you do it? In the fifth part of the low carb for doctors series, Dr Unwin discusses how doctors can talk about obesity to their patients in a respectful way. -
Content ArticleEmpowering doctors to speak up when they have concerns is essential to making our NHS safer, say Peter Brennan and Mike Davidson in this BMJ article. They discuss how healthcare can learn a lot from aviation and other high risk organisations, particularly in how they’ve embraced and applied human factors, the importance of looking after ourselves at work, and reducing hierarchy.
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Content ArticleIn this podcast by the University of Oxford, Ms Sarah Kessler (producer of the feature-length documentary ‘The Checklist Effect’ and past Lead for Lifebox) discusses and shows clips from ‘The Checklist Effect’, the award-winning documentary inspired by the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. Professor Shafi Ahmed (Consultant Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal London Hospital and Associate Dean at Barts and the London Medical School) talks about his passion around innovation, technology, global health and education, and how they marry together.
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