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Content ArticleThis infographic, by patient Jennifer Gilroy, demonstrates what makes patients feel safe and what contributes to them feeling unsafe in a hospital environment.
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Community PostWe are looking into introducing a new device to deliver CPAP at ward level into our trust. Currently we use NIPPY machines which can deliver some PEEP when in a selected mode, however the downfall to this is, it can only produce an oxygen concentration of around 50%. Often, the patient groups that require this intervention are on high oxygen requirements and so particularly in the early stages would benefit from a device that could deliver both. I have previously worked with Pulmodyne 02-Max trio which allows up to 90% oxygen and PEEP up to 7.5cmH20. Majority of patients responded very well to this treatment. I wondered whether any other trusts/ team have any other experiences/ devices that they may use and recommend? @Danielle Haupt@Claire Cox@Emma Richardson@Mandy Odell@PatientSafetyLearning Team@Patient Safety Learning@Patient safety Hub@CCOT_Southend
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Content ArticleIn 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (SOPS™ Hospital Survey) for providers and other staff to assess patient safety culture in their hospitals. Since then, hospitals across the United States and internationally have implemented the survey. In 2019, AHRQ released a new version, the SOPS Hospital Survey 2.0. The original survey is still available; however, the use of version 2.0 is encouraged.
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Work as is done, work as imagined
Anonymous posted an article in Florence in the Machine
This blog highlights: The juxtaposition of how work is carried out by healthcare staff compared to the work that policy makers are 'imagining' healthcare workers are doing. The need for healthcare staff to be part of patient safety solutions. -
Content ArticleA written and audio commentary taken from the American news station, wbur. Dr. Ashish Jha discusses the emerging trend for hospitals to spend money opening hotel-like services and argues that too often patient safety takes a backseat to these marketing efforts.
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Content ArticleFollowing the inquest into the death of former patient Amy Allan and the subsequent Preventing Future Deaths report given to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Chief Executive Matthew Shaw would like to outline how the hospital is learning from this and what action has been taken to address the concerns that have been raised.
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Remove central lines supine - animation (2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
The PatientSafe Network is a registered non for profit charity in Australia. It has been developed by front line healthcare staff and is for anyone who wants to improve patient safety. Their combined commitment is to improve patient safety through the transparent review of medical mistakes and the generation of transparent networked projects. Hundreds of patients die every year from avoidable central line related air emboli. This animation explains what air emboli are and how they may be avoided. -
Content ArticleThe D5 ward was visited as part of the University Hospital Southampton's Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection and was verbally fed back to have a different ‘feel’ to other wards in the trust. It was felt that the ward was chaotic and lacked clear leadership, on top of this there were some safety concerns raised by both the inspection team and from adverse event reports that were being submitted by the ward.
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Content ArticleThe Canterbury Renal Unit is situated at Kent and Canterbury Hospital and provides renal services for the East Kent, Medway and Maidstone areas. There are currently 680 transplant patients currently being followed up. There have been a number of immunosuppression related prescribing errors in the surrounding hospitals. Indeed, one such error occurred in the renal unit itself, when a transplant patient had prednisolone inadvertently withheld resulting in rejection of the kidney. Thus, a group of 12 transplant patients attended a co-production group to discuss the problems and potential solutions.
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Content ArticleFallStop is a quality improvement programme from the Falls Prevention Team at the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. It was developed in 2016 when they found there was a high rate of falls at one of their hospitals and a failure to learn from incidents. A FallStop Practitioner co-ordinates the programme and delivers training.
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Community PostHi everybody This is Jaione from Spain (we are in the North, Basque Region) and i am a nurse working in collaboration with the Patient Safety Team in our local NHS (Basque Health Service). First of all, I would like to congratulate the team for this hub which i think is a wonderful idea. Secondly, i would like to apologize for the language, since, although i lived in England many years ago, that is not the case anymore and I'm afraid i don't speak as well as I used to. I would like to comment a problem that we encounter very often in our organization which is related to patient's regular medications when they are admitted to hospital. We do have online prescriptions for both acute and community settings but the programs don't really speak to each other so, for example, if I take a blood pressure pill everyday and i get admitted into hospital, chances are that my blood pressure tablet won't get prescribed during my in-hospital stay. The logical thing to do would be to change both online systems so they communicate to each other, but that's not possible at the moment. I wanted to ask whether other systems have the same problem and, if so, if there is any strategy implemented to alleviate this issue. I hope i have expressed myself as clearly as possible. Thanks very much once more for this hub! Kind regards Jaione
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Why we need courage to keep our patients safe
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Florence in the Machine
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Content ArticleThis short video describes how the staff at NHS Imperial College Healthcare are at the heart of patient safety and showcases some of the achievements of their teams in improving patient safety.
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Content ArticleThe RCNi (the publishing company of the Royal College of Nursing) have brought together a selection of their most popular articles on the topic of sepsis from across their journals to inform your practice. Sepsis remains a significant cause of death – it is estimated that 44,000 people die from ‘the silent killer’ every year. RCNi has a wide range of resources available to help nurses improve diagnosis and early management of the condition.
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Content ArticleThe Model Hospital is a digital information service designed to help NHS providers improve their productivity and efficiency. It is an easy to navigate, free tool that can be used by anyone in the NHS, from board to ward.
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Content ArticleRichard Smith, former BMJ Editor and Chair of the Point of Care Foundation, finds out more about Schwartz rounds in this opinion article published in the BMJ.
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Birmingham University Hospitals Trust: Poster for staff going home
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
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Content Article"It’s time to halt, take a break, and redraw the relationship between patient care and self-care. Self-care isn’t an optional luxury. It must sit at the heart of what we do, to ensure our teams can continue to rise to the challenges of working in the 21st century NHS, to give our patients the best of both ourselves, and the organisation so many of us are proud to be a part of."
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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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Content ArticlePulmonary embolism resulting from deep vein thrombosis, collectively referred to as venous thromboembolism, is the most common preventable cause of hospital death in the US. Pharmacologic methods to prevent venous thromboembolism are safe, effective, cost-effective, and advocated by authoritative guidelines, yet large prospective studies continue to demonstrate that these preventive methods are significantly underused.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of this study was to describe patient engagement as a safety strategy from the perspective of hospitalised surgical patients with cancer.
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Content ArticleInteresting article, by the Patient Safety Network, around how patients can be involved in the solution and the cause of some patient safety incidents.
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Content ArticleA team at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Middlesbrough developed a programme to raise awareness of acute kidney injury (AKI) and to recognise and treat the condition promptly. Since the programme started there has been a sustained reduction (36%) in AKI cases within the surgical wards at Middlesbrough. This successful programme and pathway has been shared with seven other trusts in the North East of England. As a result of the AKI project and its links to CRAB Clinical Informatics Limited (C-Ci), other NHS Trusts (Imperial, Frimley Park, Wexham Park, North Devon, St Helen’s, Lincoln, Yeovil, Bartholomew’s, The Royal London and Southend) have now also been consulted, meaning this project has the potential for much wider spread. Commonly AKI starts in the community so the team is now focusing on strategies to support primary care to reduce AKI in the community and to harmonise AKI aftercare between hospital and community services. The South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust team was also highly commended in July 2017 at the national Patient Safety Awards.
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Content ArticleAn adverse clinical event, patient safety incident or medical error can have a far-reaching impact not only for the patient and their families, the 'first victims', but also the healthcare professionals involved. These are sometimes referred to as ‘second victims’. Often there are few opportunities for second victim healthcare professionals to discuss the details of incidents or events and share how this has affected them personally. The East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative (EMPSC) funded the University of Leicester as part of their National Safety Culture workstream to develop a Second Victim Support Unit within the Children’s Hospital at University Hospitals Leicester to test whether models of support established in the US could be successfully transferred to UK health settings.
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Content ArticleThe second blog from Claire, a Critical Care Outreach Sister, and Patient Safety Learning's Associate Director, on her visit to Rush University Hospital, Chicago.
