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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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleHospital-acquired venous thromboembolism (VTE) continues to be a significant source of preventable patient harm. This study from Richie et al. retrospectively examined patients admitted with VTE and found that only 15% received correct risk stratification and appropriate management and treatment. The case review found that patients were commonly incorrectly stratified, received incorrect pharmaceutical treatment, or inadequate application of mechanical prophylaxis (e.g., intermittent compression).
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Content ArticleCreating a foundation for safe and reliable care requires more than just a small team in an organisation. This short video captures what the Patient Safety Movement Foundation has to offer healthcare organisations hoping to make their care better and safer from the ground up.
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Content ArticleSupport in clinical decision making is recognised as an educational development need for pharmacists. The health policy landscape puts the pharmacist in a central role for clinical management of long-term complex morbidities, making clinical decision making and taking responsibility for patient outcomes increasingly important. This is compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic, where healthcare environments have become more complex and challenging to navigate. In this environment, foundation pharmacists were unable to sit the GPhC registration assessment during the summer of 2020 but provisionally the registration assessment is due to take place online during the first quarter of 2021. In response to this, a suite of resources has been developed with collaboration between Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) and Health Education England (HEE). These resources are aimed in particular at early career pharmacists and their supervisors, especially those in foundation pharmacist positions managing the transition from education to the workplace environment.
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Content ArticleHealthcare professionals are experiencing unprecedented levels of occupational stress and burnout. Higher stress and burnout in health professionals is linked with the delivery of poorer quality, less safe patient care across healthcare settings. In order to understand how we can better support healthcare professionals in the workplace, this study from Johnson et al. evaluated a tailored resilience coaching intervention comprising a workshop and one-to-one coaching session addressing the intrinsic challenges of healthcare work in health professionals and students. The authors found preliminary evidence that the intervention was well received and effective, but further research using a randomised controlled design will be necessary to confirm this.
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Content ArticleThis guidance from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) is aimed at early career pharmacists, especially those in foundation pharmacist positions managing the transition from education to the workplace environment. Support in clinical decision-making is recognised as an educational development need for early career pharmacists, making the transition from a university education where there is very little exposure to the clinical environment into the work environment. This situation is compounded by a policy landscape which puts the pharmacist in a central role for clinical management of long-term complex morbidities, making clinical decision making and taking responsibility for patient outcomes increasingly important. The guidance will also be of use to those involved in the education and mentorship of early career pharmacist.
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Content ArticleFor over three decades, patients, consultants and perioperative staff have been exposed to diathermy tissue smoke in all operating hospital theatres. This smoke is called plaque and, when inhaled, is the same as smoking cigarettes. Research shows that inhalation of smoke from one gram of cauterised tissue is equal to smoking six cigarettes. This smoke is also cancerous and can mutate to other organs of the body just like cigarettes. Read my personal view of the harmful effects of diathermy smoke published in the Journal of Perioperative Practice, and also watch the short video kindly made for me by Knowlex UK.
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Content ArticleThis guideline from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) covers preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections in children, young people and adults in primary and community care settings. It provides a blueprint for the infection prevention and control precautions that should be applied by everyone involved in delivering NHS care and treatment.
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Content ArticleHelen is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUHFT) and a Senior Clinical Research Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford. Here, Helen highlights the importance of support and training and gives an example of how the OxSTaR team are transforming staff teamworking skills and improving patient safety.
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AWARE – Well-being resources
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Good practice
A suite of resources designed to promote well-being among US residents, fellows, faculty members, and others has been created by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. This initial set of AWARE resources focuses on individual strategies for cognitive skill building, and includes a video workshop, podcasts, and the ACGME AWARE app. -
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Health screening poster: Learning disabilities (MacIntyre)
Claire Cox posted an article in Learning disabilities
This poster from MacIntyre helps to raise awareness of health screening for people with learning disabilities among frontline staff. Giving an overview of relevant health checks depending on sex and age the poster serves as a quick visual reminder. -
Content ArticleThe Keep Going…….Don’t Stop! (KGDS) group was formed in May 2016 with a focus of creating work (related to growing older, dementia and health) that is easily accessible to people with a learning disability in different formats, predominantly easy read. The aim is to ensure the documents will support people with a learning disability to have more of an understanding of what is happening with their changing health needs as they grow older. By making the documents accessible, MacIntyre can make sure they are involving the people they support as much as possible and staff can be confident that they have the tools to support such conversations.
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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 ArticleThis innovative educational initiative was developed as a direct and constructive response to the communication inadequacies exposed by the Montgomery case, and subsequent legislation. While it is not difficult to give ‘more information’ it is harder for surgeons and patients to achieve a decision partnership. The ICONS workshop content has been informed by internationally recognised experts in Shared Decision Making, by consensus among senior practising surgeons, by patients and by professional experts in risk management and risk communication. Delegates on the ICONS workshops will acquire skills and knowledge to implement best practice in sharing the complex decisions surrounding informed consent. By participating in a workshop, they will also contribute to the development of resources for future training in the important area of informed consent.
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Content ArticleThe NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework is designed to help individuals to develop and use skills to mobilise knowledge effectively in their organisations – to help them to learn before, during and after everything that they do so that pitfalls can be avoided and best practice replicated. It is a re-working of an original concept devised by what was the Department of Health Connecting for Health Knowledge Management Team and the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Library and Knowledge Services Team. The modules introduce eleven techniques to help plan, co-ordinate and implement knowledge mobilisation activities in your organisation. Accompanying the framework are a set of quick reference cards.
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Content Article‘In Safe Hands’ is an interactive guide produced by Health Education England (HEE) who is responsible for delivering education and training that supports safer clinical practice across the NHS. This guide has been produced in response to the recommendations made in the 2016 report ‘Improving Safety Through Education & Training’.
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Content ArticlePatient safety continues to be a significant issue in healthcare and a focus of both quality improvement and academic research. The NHS published its first Patient Safety Strategy in July 2019. As part of this, it was agreed that the first NHS-wide Patient Safety Syllabus would support a transformation in patient safety education and training in the NHS. The Patient Safety Strategy includes ambitions to develop training in the fundamentals of patient safety that would be relevant to all NHS staff, clinical and non-clinical, as well as more detailed training and education that could be incorporated into clinical and non-clinical undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare education and continuing professional development. T The syllabus is designed for all NHS staff and is structured to provide both a technical understanding of safety in complex systems and a suite of tools and approaches that will: Build safety for patients. Reduce the risks created by systems and practices. Develop a genuine culture of patient safety. The patient safety syllabus comprises five sequential domains of safety and forms the basis of the detailed curriculum guidance designed for specific levels of the NHS.
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Content ArticleHealth Education England (HEE) has published the first NHS-wide Patient Safety Syllabus which applies to all NHS employees and will result in all NHS employees receiving enhanced patient safety training. Written by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and commissioned by HEE the new National Patient Safety Syllabus outlines a new approach to patient safety emphasising a proactive approach to identifying risks to safe care while also including systems thinking and human factors. Level one and two learning materials will be available on the E Learning for Health platform for staff to access and complete from August and September 2021.
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Patient Safety Syllabus training
Mark Hughes posted an article in Specialist patient safety training
The National patient safety syllabus outlines a new approach to patient safety, emphasising a proactive approach to identifying risks to safe care while also including systems thinking and human factors and applies to all NHS employees. This page provides access to learning materials (via the E-Learning for Health platform) for staff relating to Level one – Essentials for patient safety and Level two – Access to practice of the training associated with this. -
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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.
