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Content ArticleIn this podcast, host Thea Joshi is joined by Emma Bailey and Hannah Moore from the Equally Well campaign, which the Centre for Mental Health runs in partnership with Rethink Mental Illness. They share how Equally Well UK is working to improve the physical health of people with severe mental illness, with the critical aim of reducing the unacceptable mortality gap that affects people with severe mental illness. Emma and Hannah discuss how physical health is often neglected in mental health inpatient services, and give examples of good work that is being done to change this.
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Content ArticleThis report, from the The Mental Health Policy Group, considers the steps that must be taken if the ambition of ‘parity of esteem’ for mental health is to be achieved in England. Its starting point is the belief that improving the nation’s mental health cannot be achieved through a focus on health services alone, vital though these are. A much more ambitious, cross-government approach to mental health is also required.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Debbie Ivanova, Deputy Chief Inspector — People with a learning disability and autistic people, and Jemima Burnage, Deputy Chief Inspector and Mental Health Lead, update on progress since the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) 'Out of Sight' report published in October 2020. Their blog discusses the findings of the authors' 'Restraint, segregation and seclusion review: Progress report' published in December 2021.
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Content ArticleIn this report, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) comments on progress following publication of its 'Out of sight – who cares?' report in October 2020, and highlights the main areas where further work is still needed.
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The NHS has declared climate change a health emergency, but are trust leaders and healthcare staff talking and acting on this? Angela Hayes, Clinical Lead Sustainability at the Christie Foundation Trust, discusses climate change and the impact it has on all of our lives and health. She believes healthcare professionals have a moral duty to act, to protect and improve public health, and should demand stronger action in tackling climate change.- Posted
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Content ArticleWhat a subway killing reveals about New York City’s revolving-door approach to mental illness and homelessness.
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Content ArticleThis report by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) looks what people with a learning disability and autistic people experience when they need physical health care and treatment in hospital. People with a learning disability face huge inequalities when accessing and receiving health care, and initiatives to try and improve people’s experiences have not brought about improvement at the speed or scale needed. The consequences of this are serious, as when people do not get care and support that meets their individual needs, it can lead to avoidable harm and premature death. Equity for people with a learning disability and autistic people is therefore a critical patient safety issue.
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Content ArticlePeople with a learning disability are more than twice as likely to die from avoidable causes than the rest of the population. Actor Tommy Jessop and BBC Panorama investigated some of the stories of families who say they were let down by their medical care.
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Content ArticlePeople with developmental disability have higher healthcare needs and lower life expectancy compared with the general population. Poor quality of care resulting from interpersonal and systemic discrimination may further entrench existing inequalities.
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Content ArticleDeveloped by David Havard, this poster shows a number of ways in which reasonable adjustments can easily be made for patients with a learning disability.
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Sinead Heneghan is a GP based in the North West of England with a passion for reducing health inequalities. In this interview for Patient Safety Learning, Sinead tells us how she made sure COVID-19 vaccinations were prioritised for people with learning disabilities, when national guidance advised otherwise. She also explains how they took the opportunity locally to combine these face-to-face immunisation appointments with annual health checks, identifying unmet health needs that needed addressing. -
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Systemic safety inequities for people with learning disabilities: a qualitative integrative analysis of the experiences of English health and social care for people with learning disabilities, their families and carers (28 January 2022)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Learning disabilities
This study in the International Journal for Equity in Health aimed to understand the care experiences of people with learning disabilities, and explore the potential patient safety issues that they and their carers raised. The authors examined the lived experience of care for people with learning disabilities through focus groups and narratives posted on the public platform Care Opinion. The study identified a series of safety inequities and gaps in systems affecting people with learning disabilities. The authors recommend considering interventions to protect against these inequities at a policy and organisational level and highlight that policy needs to span both health and social care. -
Content ArticleIn this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier speaks to Amanda McKie, Matron -for Learning Disabilities & Complex Needs Coordinator at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. In this episode Amanda talks about health inequalities, mental capacity, advocacy and high profile key documents such as Death by Indifference, the LeDer Mortality programme and the current case of Oliver McGowan. Learning disabilities is a life long condition and they can present in any areas of health care. In this podcast we discover how important it is to have an understanding an appreciation and insight into the care experience of a person with a learning disability and their parents or carers.
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Content ArticleHealthcare workers (HCWs), particularly those from ethnic minority groups, have been shown to be at disproportionately higher risk of infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) compared to the general population. However, there is insufficient evidence on how demographic and occupational factors influence infection risk among ethnic minority HCWs. Researchers analysed data from 10,772 HCWs who worked during the pandemic to identify demographic and household factors that contributed to infection risk. Results from the UK-REACH study, co-funded by the NIHR and UK Research and Innovation, showed that healthcare workers' risk of catching coronavirus increased in correlation with the level of exposure to COVID-19 patients. Other risk factors included a lack of PPE access and sharing living or working environments with other key workers. Geographical differences were also seen, with healthcare workers in Scotland and South West England at lower risk of infection compared with those in the West Midlands. Intensive care unit staff were also at lower risk than those in other hospital settings.
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Content ArticleThis guidance from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) outlines how human factors as a discipline can help address issues relating to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). It looks at situations that cause EDI issues, including: confusing user interface language and terminology. ill-fitting personal protective equipment (PPE). biases in equipment design. It also examines the role of human factors in overcoming these issues, by: adopting a systems approach. using a participatory design process. applying specific HF methods to enhance EDI delivery.
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Content ArticleThe #SolvingTogether platform is a place for people to post their ideas on how to recover services, redesign care delivery and address health inequalities. #SolvingTogether invites colleagues working on elective recovery to contribute their experiences, good practices, ideas, and comments on these challenges before it is opened for contributions more widely. Once #SolvingTogether is fully live, all stakeholders will have the opportunity to contribute and engage through tweet chats and a range of connect sessions.
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Content ArticleThe Collaboration for Change is a group of two UK universities, nine community organisations and two small and medium size enterprises, who have conducted research on how to improve vaccine uptake among ethnic minority groups. This report outlines the results of a co-produced research study by the Collaboration for Change that combines research, evidence and lived experience to understand and improve vaccine uptake in ethnic minority communities. The report highlights the following factors influencing vaccine uptake: Using trusted messengers to encourage vaccine uptake may be a useful strategy to increase uptake in communities with low vaccination rates A lack of trust in the organisations and individuals encouraging vaccine uptake impacts vaccine uptake across many ethnic minority communities People are less likely to accept the offer of vaccination if little culturally and linguistically appropriate information is available to them, especially when their concerns are not covered Alongside the report, the Collaboration for Change has produced some recommended strategies to improve vaccine confidence and uptake.
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Content ArticleIn this blog for The Patients Association, Patient Safety Commissioner Henrietta Hughes looks at the importance of patient involvement in improving patient safety. She argues that patient voices should be embedded in the design and delivery of healthcare, and highlights that services and organisations need to seek feedback from patients from a wide variety of backgrounds. She also outlines why shared decision making and consent are vital to ensure patients are safe and have more control over their care and treatment.
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This 1-page infographic makes the case for the development of health literate information. It sets out the average UK skills for literacy and numeracy, the impact this has on health and what information producers can do to develop information that works for everyone. The principles for development echo the PIF TICK criteria. They can be applied to all health information, in all formats whatever the topic – from vaccines to verruca. The infographic has been designed in response to member demand. It makes the case that health literate information is not 'dumbed down', rather it helps level up. -
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Patient Information Forum (PIF) have launched a new website to help people find trusted health information. The PIF TICK website allows members of the public to see which organisations have the PIF TICK – the UK quality mark for health information – and offers advice on how to find trust health information. -
Content ArticleThe Accessible Information Standard is a set of principles for the presenting, sharing and discussing information with patients. It aims to make sure that people who have a disability, impairment or sensory loss get information that they can access and understand, and any communication support that they need from health and care services.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Dr Amy Proffitt, Royal College of Physicians (RCP) patient involvement officer, explores how the patient voice is represented in patient safety. She highlights the importance of engaging patients from a diverse range of backgrounds and responding to research that highlights particular populations who are experiencing worse outcomes. Eddie Kinsella, chair of the RCP’s Patient and Carer Network, then goes on to share his thoughts on patient safety, highlighting the role of patient partners in bringing about culture change in the NHS, and as advocates for the wider community, especially those who are most disadvantaged.
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Content ArticleIn January 2023, The Patients Association celebrates its 60th anniversary. In this interview, CEO Rachel Power talks about why The Patients Association was set up and how the organisation still aims to ensure that everyone can access and benefit from the health and care they need to live well. She describes the benefits of shifting to free membership, how patient partnership is vital to improving health and care services and The Patients Association's role in highlighting the key issues facing patients to the Government. She also highlights the key role that pharmacies play in promoting health information and delivering services to the communities they serve.
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Content ArticleThis cross-sectional survey in the BMJ Open aimed to examine the sociodemographic characteristics, activities, motivations, experiences, skills and challenges of patient partners working across multiple health system settings in Canada. This survey was the first of its kind to examine the characteristics, experiences and dynamics of a large sample of self-identified patient partners at a population level. Although patient partners who took part were from similar sociodemographic background, the scope, intensity and longevity of their roles varied. Respondents predominantly identified as female (76.6%), white (84%) and university educated (70.2%). Primary motivations for becoming a patient partner were the desire to improve the health system based on either a negative (36.2%) or positive (23.3%) experience. Respondents reported feeling enthusiastic (83.6%), valued (76.9%) and needed (63.3%) always or most of the time. Just under half felt they had always or often been adequately compensated in their role.
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Black and Asian bereaved parents whose baby died during pregnancy or shortly after birth have shared their experiences as part of the Sands Listening Project. The 56 parents who took part shone a light on care that works well, while also highlighting barriers, biases, and poor care. In the report, published by Sands, you can read more about: the findings pregnancy loss and baby deaths among Black and Asian babies in the UK real-life experiences and case studies what needs to change. Follow the link below to access the Listening Project report on the Sands website.
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