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Content ArticlePeripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs) are medical devices often used for medium-to-long-term intravenous therapy, but they are often associated with morbid and potentially lethal complications. This multi-centre study in the journal Plos One aimed to identify barriers and facilitators to implementing evidence-based appropriateness criteria to improve PICC safety and patient outcomes in a pay-for-performance model. The authors found that structured quality improvement (QI) efforts led to sustained PICC appropriateness and improved patient safety. These interventions included a multidisciplinary vascular access committee, clear targets, local champions and support from an online education toolkit.
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Content ArticleThis paper addresses information raised as part of a Delphi study of NHS hospital operating theatres in England. The aim of the first Delphi study round was to establish how the World Health Organisation’s Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is currently being used in the peri-operative setting as part of a strategy to reduce surgical ‘never events’. It used a combination of closed and open-ended questions that solicited specific information about current practice and research literature, that generated ideas and allowed participants freedom in their responses. The study asked theatre managers, matrons and clinical educators that work in operating theatres and deliver the surgical safety checklist daily, and who are therefore considered to be theatre safety experts. Participants were from the seven regions identified by NHS England. The study revealed that the majority of trusts don’t receive formal training on how to deliver the SSC, checklist champions are not always identified, feedback following a ‘never event’ is not usually given and that the debrief is the most common step missed. While the intention of the study was not to establish whether the lack of training, cyclical learning and missing steps has led to the increased presence of never events, it has facilitated a broader engagement in the literature, as well highlighting some possible reasons why compliance has not yet been universally achieved. Furthermore, the Delphi study is intended to be an exploratory approach that will inform a more in-depth doctoral research study aimed at improving patient safety in the operating theatre and informing policy making and quality improvement.
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News ArticleA new report published by the NHS AI Lab and Health Education England (HEE) has advocated for training and education for providers in how they deliver and develop AI guidance for staff. The report, entitled ‘Developing healthcare workers’ confidence in AI (Part 2)’, is the second of two reports in relation to this research and follows the 2019 Topol Review recommendation to develop a healthcare workforce “able and willing” to use AI and robotics. It is also part of HEE’s Digital, AI and Robotics Technologies in Education (DART-ED) programme, which aims to understand the impact of advances of these technologies on the workforce’s education and training requirements. In the previous report, the AI Lab and HEE found that many clinicians and staff were unaccustomed to the use of AI technologies, and without the suitable training patients would not be able to experience and share the advantages. The new report has set out recommendations for education and training providers in England to support them in planning, resourcing, developing and delivering new training packages in this area. It notes that specialist training will also be required depending on roles and responsibilities such as involvement in implementation, procurement or using AI in clinical practice. Brhmie Balaram, Head of AI Research and Ethics at the NHS AI Lab, added: “This important new research will support those organisations that train our health and care workers to develop their curriculums to ensure staff of the future receive the training in AI they will need. This project is only one in a series at the NHS AI Lab to help ensure the workforce and local NHS organisations are ready for the further spread of AI technologies that have been found to be safe, ethical and effective.” Read full story Source: Health Tech Newspaper, 25 October 2022
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Content ArticleThis research is a collaboration between the NHS AI Lab and Health Education England. Its primary aim is to inform the development of education and training to develop healthcare workers’ confidence in artificial intelligence (AI).
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Prescribing art and gardening for patients may be a waste of money
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
The “social prescribing” of gardening, singing and art classes is a waste of NHS money, a study suggests. Experts found that sending patients to community activity groups had “little to no impact” on improving health or reducing demand on GP services. The research calls into question a major drive from the NHS and Department of Health to increase social prescribing as a solution to the shortage of doctors and medical staff. In 2019 the NHS set a target of referring 900,000 patients for such activities via their GP surgeries within five years. Projects receiving government funding include football to support mental health, art for dementia, community gardening and singing classes to help patients to recover from Covid. However, the study, published in the journal BMJ Open, said there was “scant evidence” to support the mass rollout of so-called “social prescribing link workers”. Read full story (paywalled) Source: The Times, 18 October 2022 -
Content ArticleThis three-hour online course introduces the concept and approach to thematic analysis in safety investigations. It builds on the concepts discussed in HSIB's Level 2 course A systems approach to learning from patient safety incidents, so attendees must have completed the Level 2 course prior to enrolling on this course. The course will run on the following dates: 11 June 2024 24 June 2024 10 July 2024 15 July 2024 HSIB courses are aimed at NHS staff in health and social care settings in England, who are involved in safety investigations for learning. Courses run online and are free of charge to attend for NHS staff.
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Content ArticleThe Office for National Statistics reports that 98,000 children are now living with the symptoms of Long Covid in the UK. To support these children and young people at school and college, Long Covid Kids has collaborated with education resource website Twinkl to produce a series of resources for teachers and teaching staff about Long Covid. Although the resources are free to download, you will need to sign up for a Twinkl account to access them.
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Content ArticleThis document outlines how Health Education England (HEE) hopes to expand the role of simulation and immersive learning technologies in the education and training of the NHS workforce. Simulation is defined as ‘a technique to replace or amplify real experiences with guided experiences, often immersive in nature, that evoke or replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully safe, instructive and interactive fashion’. This document considers how existing techniques and technologies can benefit wider policy and strategy goals in health and care, outlining HEE's intention to: promote and strengthen the dialogue between different system and stakeholder organisations, networks, and communities to enable and evaluate opportunities for sharing intelligence and innovation provide a platform for collaboration on common themes of work generate evidence of impact that will help support the transformation in health and care that is required for the future needs of patients and society.
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Content ArticleThis letter to the editor published in The Journal of Biomedical Research outlines the ways in which simulation will be used in medical education in the future. The author highlights that: simulation is likely to become much more closely linked to assessment in the future. our vision of what constitutes simulation will change radically in the future, with access to simulation becoming easier and wider. the future of simulation in medical education will follow the same path as the future of healthcare—more primary care, management of long term conditions and patient self-management.
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Content ArticleThis article looks at the enormous growth in the use of clinical simulation that has happened over the last 20 years, examining why simulation is an effective tool in training healthcare professionals and how it can be applied to different healthcare topics and settings. The authors look at the history of simulation in medical training, theories related to simulation, the typology of simulation, the importance of simulation education during the Covid-19 pandemic and current trends and innovation in simulation education.
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Content ArticleSimulation is a training technique that replaces real experiences with guided experiences. These experiences replicate substantial aspects of the real world in a fully interactive manner. This article looks at the future of simulation in healthcare, categorising applications of simulation into 11 dimensions: The purpose and aims of the simulation activity The unit of participation in the simulation The experience level of simulation participants The healthcare domain in which the simulation is applied The healthcare disciplines of personnel participation in the simulation The type of knowledge, skill, attitudes of behaviour addressed in simulation The age of the patient being simulated The technology applicable or required for simulations The site of simulation participation The extent of direct participation in simulation The feedback method accompanying simulation
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Content ArticleOver the last four years, Health Education England (HEE) has led a collaborative effort, on behalf of patients, the profession and the NHS, to co-create reforms across medical education and training. HEE launched the Future Doctor Programme last year, linked to work on the NHS People Plan, to inform and galvanise change in medical education and training to achieve the vision for future healthcare as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan. The Future Doctor Programme provides a clear view of what the NHS, patients and the public require from future doctors within a transformed multi-professional team. This co-created vision for the future has also identified much of what is required to respond to the projected demands and needs of the workforce in the future.
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Content ArticleThis article, published in Women Fitness Magazine, argues that a lack of awareness about safety measures and a shortage of healthcare professionals make it difficult for hospitals to ensure patient safety in the United States. It sets out six ways hospitals can ensure patient safety during treatment.
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Content ArticlePatients and providers often don't recognise skin cancer on darker skin. Medical school faculty and students are trying to change that.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Grace Annan-Callcott, Programme Adviser at the Understanding Patient Data programme (UPD) outlines the findings of a new report on the impact of including information about patient data in health charities' guidance. The report investigates whether adding small explanations about the role of patient data in developing health guidance affects people’s: perception of the information or advice general awareness or understanding of how patient data can be used. Working with a group of charities including Asthma + Lung UK, Best Beginnings, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, MS Trust, Stroke Association, National Autistic Society, British Heart Foundation and the Patient Information Forum (PIF), UPD set up a community of practice to research the impact of patient data in health guidance.
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Content ArticleThis report explores the factors influencing healthcare workers’ confidence in AI-driven technologies. A second report will detail how their confidence can be developed through education and training.
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Content ArticleThis webpage by the British Association of Dermatologists contains a selection of resources about skin cancer and sun safety for patients. it describes the different types of skin cancer, how to get moles checked and how to stay safe in the sun.
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NRAS - SMILE-RA e-learning for patients
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Patient engagement
SMILE (Self-Management Individualised Learning Environment) is an e-learning experience for people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) who want to learn more about RA, its treatments and how to become good at self-managing. Each module is on a particular theme or subject and takes between 20 mins and half an hour to complete. -
Content ArticleThis article in the Journal of Global Health aimed to consider which patient safety interventions are the most effective and appropriate in fragile, conflict-affected, and vulnerable (FCV) settings. The authors examined available literature published between 2003 and 2020, using an evidence-scanning approach. They found that the existing literature is dominated by infection prevention and control interventions for multiple reasons, including strength of evidence, acceptability, feasibility and impact on patient and healthcare worker wellbeing. They identified an urgent need to further develop the evidence base, specialist knowledge and field guidance on a range of other patient safety interventions such as education and training, patient identification, subject specific safety actions and risk management.
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Content ArticleMedication safety events with the potential for patient harm do occur in healthcare settings. Pharmacists are regularly tasked with utilizing their medication knowledge to optimize the medication-use process and reduce the likelihood of error. To prepare for these responsibilities in professional practice, it is important to introduce patient safety principles during educational experiences. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) have set forth accreditation standards focused on the management of medication-use processes to ensure these competencies during pharmacy didactic learning and postgraduate training. The experience described here provides perspective on educational and experiential opportunities across the continuum of pharmacy education, with a focus on a relationship between a college of pharmacy and healthcare system. Various activities, including discussions, medication event reviews, audits, and continuous quality improvement efforts, have provided the experiences to achieve standards for these pharmacy learners. These activities support a culture of safety from early training.
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Content ArticleThe Schools for Health in Europe network foundation (SHE) aims to improve the health of children and young people in Europe, including reducing health inequalities, through a specific setting focus on schools. This factsheet by SHE provides an overview of current evidence on health literacy with a specific focus on schools, pupils, and educational staff. It contains information and data on: Health literacy among school-aged children The interplay between health literacy, health and education Health literacy in schools in the WHO European Region A future avenue for health literacy in schools
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Content ArticleThe ladder of co-production describes a series of steps towards full co-production in health and social care. Developed by the National Co-production Advisory Group set up by the organisation Think Local Act Personal, it supports greater understanding of the various steps that need to happen in co-production, such as access, inclusion and consultation. This webpage contains a variety of downloadable resources and a video explaining the ladder of co-production.
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Content ArticleThis document sets out the Northern Ireland Department of Health's ambitions to improve medication safety in Northern Ireland, in line with the World Health Organization's Third Global Patient Safety Challenge 'Medication without Harm'. It outlines the need for safer use of medicines in Northern Ireland and highlights four ways in which the Department for Health will address these challenges: Engagement with patients and the public Introducing new systems and practice Engagement and training of health and social care staff Reducing the burden of avoidable harm from high-risk medicines by building good practice in to the supply of all medications
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Belfast Healthy Cities: Pharmacy Schools Programme (2021)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Medication
The Pharmacy Schools Programme is an innovative teaching resource developed by Belfast Healthy Cities. Using a health literacy approach, it is designed to be used in primary schools in Northern Ireland to help educate children about self-care, medication safety and community pharmacy services. -
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WHO - Announcing World Patient Safety Day 2022 (4 March 2022)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in WHO
The theme for World Patient Safety Day 2022 is Medication Safety. It will take place on 17 September 2022. Unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of avoidable harm in healthcare across the world. Medication errors occur when weak medication systems, and human factors such as fatigue, poor environmental conditions or staff shortages, affect prescribing, transcribing, dispensing, administration and monitoring practices. This can result in severe patient harm, disability and even death. The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has significantly exacerbated the risk of medication errors and associated medication-related harm. The theme builds on the ongoing WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm. It also provides much-needed impetus to take urgent action for reducing medication-related harm through strengthening systems and practices of medication use.
