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Impact of the new medical examiner role on patient safety
Claire Cox posted an article in Organisational
In an analysis published in the BMJ, Alan Fletcher and colleagues outline how the new medical examiner system could create a world leading mortality review system if implemented appropriately. -
Content ArticleThis report evaluates Schwartz Center Rounds® (rounds) in England. Rounds were introduced into the UK in 2009 to support healthcare staff to deliver compassionate care, something the Francis report (Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry) identified as lacking. Rounds are organisation-wide forums that prompt reflection and discussion of the emotional, social and ethical challenges of healthcare work, with the aim of improving staff well-being and patient care.
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Content ArticleA Quality Account is an annual report which providers of NHS healthcare services must publish about the quality of services they provide. This quality account covers the services provided by Virgin Care. Virgin Care delivers services on behalf of NHS Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley, and Swale Clinical Commissioning Groups in North Kent, and is one of a number of providers of health and care services locally.
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Content ArticleNHS England awarded 'Improving Access to Psychological Therapies' (IAPT) services in the Oxford AHSN region ‘Early Implementer’ funding to lead the way in setting up integrated treatments for patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) alongside mental illness. Four of the first 22 services selected nationally were in the Oxford AHSN region. This study was carried out by health economist Professor David Stuckler, formerly of the University of Oxford, now based at the University of Bocconi, Italy, supported by NHS South, Central West Commissioning Support Unit. It focused on one of the first groups of patients (more than 450 people) who started receiving new integrated IAPT-LTC treatments in 2017.
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Content ArticleThis review of the literature by Mianda and Voce, published in BMC Health Services Research, was conducted towards identifying a model to inform clinical leadership development interventions among frontline healthcare providers, particularly for improved maternal and newborn care. The purpose of the literature review was to synthesise published evidence on frontline clinical leadership development and its evaluation, and included multiple frontline-care contexts.
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Using online patient feedback to improve care
Claire Cox posted an article in How to engage for patient safety
A guide from The Point of Care Foundation supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to understand how to use online patient feedback to improve quality in healthcare. -
Content ArticleThere have been repeated calls to better involve patients and the public and to place them at the centre of healthcare. In a paper published in BMJ Quality and Safety, Josephine Ocloo and Rachel Matthews explore the barriers, challenges and opportunities in involving patients in healthcare.
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Airway Device Evaluation Project Team (ADEPT)
Claire Cox posted an article in Keeping patients safe
The aim of the Airway Device Evaluation Project Team (ADEPT) is to establish a process by which the airway-management community within the profession could lead a process of formal device/equipment evaluation. There is increasing number of airway management devices being introduced into clinical practice with little or no evidence of their clinical efficacy or safety. While there are several national and international regulations governing which products can come on to the market and be legitimately sold, there has hitherto been no formal professional guidance relating to how products should be selected (purchased). ADEPT has formulated such advice, emphasising evidence based principles and defined a minimum level of evidence needed to make a pragmatic decision about the purchase or selection of an airway device. ADEPT advises that this definition should form the basis of a professional standard, guiding those with responsibility for selecting airway devices. This paper, published by Anaesthesia journal, describes how widespread adoption of this professional standard can act as a driver to create an infrastructure in which the required evidence can be obtained. -
Content ArticleMindful organising is a key integrating concept in resolving the organisational accident. Mindful organising is both the unique source of critical information about the normal operation, as well as the key recipient of intelligence about the operation, ensuring that operational actions are always informed by the most current, relevant information about potential risks no matter how remote.
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How does the NHS in England work? An alternative guide (2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Health care
This animation by The Kings fund, presents a whistle-stop tour of how the NHS works in 2017 and how it is changing. -
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COVID symptom tracker app
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice and useful resources
Guys and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the National Institute for Health research (NIHR) have developed an app. This app can be accessed by everyone. It will map out symptoms you may have (coronavirus symptoms) even if you feel well. This is part of ongoing research in how this virus is spreading and to understand symptoms. -
Content ArticleThe National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) has a new approach which focuses on the continuous audit of the care and management of patients who sustain a hip fracture in an inpatient setting. The new process involves the identification of inpatient hip fractures by the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD). This first report of the continuous NAIF focuses on patients in England and Wales who sustained an isolated hip fracture (IHF) between January and August 2019. Data on organisational policy and practice with respect to inpatient fall prevention and management were collected via a facilities audit, and the data from 2018 NHFD were explored to identify differences between IHF and non-IHF processes and outcomes.
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Content ArticleFor some time now I've been looking to find out more about mental health services in Trieste, Italy. Then I met Vincenzo Passante Spaccapietra, co-host of the Place of Safety? podcast series. This has enabled me to learn more about the closure of the mental institutions in Trieste, Italy, and the work of Franco Basaglia. I was keen to find out what really took place, what this really means in practice and how we can adopt this model in the UK. We were delighted to have become involved and to have recorded a couple of podcasts. I recommend this resource to everyone interested in safe, compassionate, patient led mental health care.
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Content ArticleIn the light of the current national guidance to reduce the number of inpatient learning disability beds, a review was completed of the quality of lives of the people who had been former inpatients in Cornwall at the time of closure of the learning disability inpatient facilities almost 10 years before transforming care.
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Engage with impact toolkit (October 2021)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Patient engagement
The Engage with Impact Toolkit was designed to help organisations evaluate the impact of their patient, family and caregiver engagement programs and activities. It was developed in Canada by a Working Group of patient, family and caregiver partners, health system researchers, engagement leads and government personnel, led by Dr Julia Abelson and the Public and Patient Engagement Collaborative at McMaster University. The Toolkit has been developed as a series of five modules, each of which includes background information, tasks to complete, resources and other support. -
Content ArticleThe Perfect Patient Information Journey is Patient Information Forum's long-running project investigating how high-quality information can be provided throughout a person’s journey with a long-term condition.
