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Content ArticleThis Risk Management Strategy, written by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, outlines the responsibilities for overseeing risk management activities across the Trust, ensuring that these meet the Trust’s requirements and national standards.
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Content ArticleThe Safer Nursing Care Tool has been developed by the Shelford Group to help NHS hospital staff measure patient acuity and/or dependency to inform evidence-based decision making on staffing and workforce. The tool, when allied to Nurse Sensitive Indicators (NSIs), offers nurses a reliable method against which to deliver evidence-based workforce plans to support existing services or to develop new services. The Shelford Group is an organisation comprising Chief Executives of 10 of the leading NHS multi-specialty academic healthcare organisations in England. The Chief Nurses of each of these NHS Trusts belong to a subgroup of the organisation and they meet every two months to share best-practice, benchmark and work towards improving standards in nursing.
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Content ArticleThis pack is for acute, specialist, mental health and community trust boards and specifically trust non-executive directors (NEDs) and non-clinical executive directors. It explains what boards are expected to do in relation to the Learning from Deaths framework.
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Content ArticleDr Hein Le Roux is Primary Care Patient Safety GP Lead at the West of England Academic Health Science Network. Here Hein interviews Dr Emma Redfern on their programme to encourage the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS), followed by a conversation with Dr Sheena Yerburgh on a standardised admission sheet they have helped to develop, which is being used by GPs in the Gloucestershire area when referring patients to emergency departments.
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Content ArticleThe major conditions strategy is a national framework being developed by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) and the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID). It will focus on six major groups of conditions: cancers cardiovascular diseases, including stroke and diabetes chronic respiratory diseases dementia mental ill health musculoskeletal disorders This briefing by NHS Confederation examines how the upcoming major conditions strategy can set the conditions to prevent, treat and manage multimorbidity in England.
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Content ArticleAcademic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) host England’s fifteen Patient Safety Collaboratives. They are experts in supporting quality improvement projects using methodology from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement model for improvement. This resource pack by The AHSN Network provides an overview of the different ways Patient Safety Collaboratives can support safety improvement projects and includes case studies and resources.
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Content ArticleSee the South West Academic Health Science Network's video from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Patient Safety Officer Training. This training was held over a week for clinical and non clinical staff to understand patient safety and what role they can play.
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Content ArticleHow are trauma-informed approaches being implemented by public services – and what are the barriers to embedding the approach more widely? Produced jointly by the Centre for Mental Health and the Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk, this reports explores how trauma-informed approaches are being implemented by public services including women’s centres, prisons and mental health services. Evidence has shown that there are strong links between traumatic experiences and poor mental health. The need for public services to be trauma-informed has been repeatedly demonstrated. A sense of safety summarises the findings of interviews and site visits to a range of public services for women, including substance misuse, homelessness, mental health, the criminal justice system, and domestic and sexual abuse and exploitation. It found that services taking a holistic approach to supporting women’s needs were best able to make the change to becoming trauma-informed. However, many organisations faced barriers including short-term and fragile funding.
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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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Content ArticleThis guide from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation gives actions and resources for creating and sustaining safe practices for surgical site infections.
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Content ArticleThe Cambridge Elements series offers a comprehensive and authoritative set of overviews of different improvement approaches that can be applied to healthcare. Each publication explores the thinking behind them, examines evidence for each approach and identifies areas of debate. Publications available include: Design creativity Values and ethics Statistical process control Approaches to spread, scale-up, and sustainability Health economics Governance and leadership Workplace conditions Reducing overuse Simulation as an improvement technique Implementation science Operational research approaches Making culture change happen Co-producing and co-designing Collaboration-based approaches The positive deviance approach
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