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Content ArticleThis blog from the PatientSafe Network discusses cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance — the pain of accepting ego-dystonic facts — mitigates against an open, rational aggressive cycle of process improvement. Unfortunately the hierarchical structures in healthcare mean we are likely to suffer from this. Those further up, best positioned to bring about positive change, are the most likely to suffer cognitive dissonance.
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Content ArticleSee how incivility affects all of us in the NHS and how that can impact patient safety. Join the staff of Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust on their journey as they reflect on the real-life effects of both incivility and active kindness. This video was devised, filmed and produced by the Elena Power Simulation Centre.
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Content ArticleTejal K. Gandhi, Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Chief Clinical and Safety Officer, reflects on the World Health Organization (WHO) challenge to “Speak Up for Patient Safety” and how broadly it applies to improvement work.
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Content ArticleEveryone should be treated with dignity and respect at work. Bullying and harassment is unacceptable and constitutes a violation of human and legal rights that can lead to criminal prosecution and civil law claims. Employers have a duty of care to provide a safe and healthy working environment for their staff, and this is an implied term of every contract of employment. Bullying and harassment undermines physical and mental health, frequently resulting in poor work performance. Possible consequences include: insomnia and inability to relax loss of confidence and self-doubt loss of appetite hypervigilance and excessive double-checking of all actions inability to switch off from work.
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Content ArticleThe Care Quality Commission (CGC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. They make sure that health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. Independent acute hospitals play an important role in delivering healthcare services in England, providing a range of services, including surgery, diagnostics and medical care. As the independent regulator, the CQC, hold all providers of healthcare to the same standards, regardless of how they are funded.
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NHS Employers - Stop bullying: it’s in your hands (leaflet)
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This leaflet by NHS Employers (Wales) explains what bullying in the workplace is, how it can affect people and what to do about it.- Posted
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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 BMJ blog, Drs Blair Bigham and Amitha Kalaichandran discuss hospital culture of bullying and a culture of not speaking up. When hospitals fail to create a culture where doctors and nurses can speak up, patients pay the price.
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Content ArticleThis guide, by NHS Improvement, contains key questions for chairs, chief executives and senior leaders about common barriers to clinicians taking part in senior organisational management. It addresses the NHS Long Term Plan priority around nurturing the next generation of leaders and supporting all those with the capability and ambition to reach the most senior levels of the service. It was developed in response to the 2018 recommendations to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to ensure more clinicians from all professional backgrounds take on strategic leadership roles.
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Content ArticleNikki Davey, Clinical Human Factors Group Trustee, talks about how we might measure if a human factors intervention has been implemented on an operational basis.
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Content ArticleProfessor Sidney Dekker of Griffith University speaks about why things go wrong.
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