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WHO's Global Knowledge Sharing Platform for Patient Safety
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Knowledge Sharing Platform for Patient Safety (GKPS) at the World Patient Safety Day 2023 Global Conference on 13 September 2023. GKPS is an online and public platform to facilitate systematic collection and sharing of patient safety knowledge by stakeholders in different geographic regions, economics and cultural settings. It promotes the sharing of best practices related to the theme of each World Patient Safety Day for implementing and learning, as well as sharing of experience in enhancing patient safety.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn this blog to mark World Patient Safety Day 2023, Patient Safety Learning sets out the scale of avoidable harm in health and social care, highlights the need for a transformation in our approach to patient safety and considers the theme of this year’s World Patient Safety Day, ‘Engaging patients for patient safety’.
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Content ArticleChris Wardley has shared his useful summary of Learn Together's '5 stage process' in involving patients and families in patient safety investigations.
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Content ArticleThe NHS.uk website averaged over 2,000 visitors per minute in 2022 and, while websites are hardly considered cutting edge, this technology is important to help make trusted and reliable health and care knowledge easily accessible to patients and the public. Web-based information, alongside access to medical records and personalised care initiatives, means people are potentially more informed to make decisions and be actively involved in their own care. However simply having access to information doesn’t necessarily make it useable.
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Content ArticleTo mark this year’s World Patient Safety Day (WPSD), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) will be running a series of blogs and Talking Heads on key surgical and dental topics in this area. These have been provided by patients, families and carers, alongside members of the College’s Patient Safety Group, College Council and the wider College fellowship. The College’s eleven Surgical Specialty Boards (SSBs) have been asked to provide blogs on how patient involvement in their individual specialty has helped to drive up standards of care. The blogs will provide examples of how patients and carers can play vital roles in making decisions about their own individual care and also how they can enhance the safety of the healthcare system as a whole by contributing to strategic decisions at organisational level. Two blogs will be released on each day of the College’s week-long WPSD campaign, starting on Monday 11 September and leading up to WPSD on Sunday 17 September. Members and Fellows will have access to these through the College website following the campaign.
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Content ArticleLearn Together is a resource website that equips patients and families with the knowledge and resources to be involved effectively in patient safety investigations. The resources have been designed, together with people who have experienced patient safety incidents and investigations, to provide the information and support patients might need following a patient safety incident. Information is provided in a range of formats including downloadable guides, videos and infographics. The site also provides information and resources for engagement leads. Learn Together is a partnership between Sheffield Hallam University, the University of Leeds, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and is funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
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Content ArticleAll aspects of the diagnostic process are potentially vulnerable to error and this can occur in all healthcare settings and services. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency investing in research to improve diagnostic safety and reduce diagnostic error in the United States. On this webpage they collate a range of different research, tools and resources related to improving diagnostic safety.
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Content ArticleThe Patients Association have worked with the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme to create a short three-minute animated video for patients about the benefits of elective surgical hubs. This animation was created by drawing on the experiences of patients who chose the option to have their planned surgery at a surgical hub.
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Content ArticleHaving patients actively engaged in their care helps healthcare professionals develop more accurate, timely diagnoses. To help encourage this engagement, the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) has developed the Patient's Toolkit, a resource for patients, by patients. Preparing ahead of time for medical appointments allows patients to think about concerns, symptoms, and other important information that healthcare professionals will need from you, and what you want to get out of the conversation during your visit. SIDM's toolkit was designed for patients visiting their healthcare provider to help tell their story clearly. Patients can follow a set of prompts and questions posed in the toolkit to help encourage participation and partnership with medical professionals. Prepare for you next appointment, map your symptoms, account for medications, and plan your next steps with the Patient's Toolkit.
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Content ArticleA useful glossary attached of PSIRF terms and acronyms created by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. See also: HSIB: Safety investigation jargon buster
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Content ArticleThe National Wound Care Strategy Programme, the AHSN Network’s Transforming Wound Care programme, and the Patient Experience Network have created a new resource to teach patients how to take a photograph of their wound to empower them to take an active role in their healthcare. Developed for patients by patients, based on experience and medical information, the resource provides hints and tips on best practice with taking wound photographs, including the mechanics of getting the best possible photograph and what photographs should and should not include to assist healthcare providers in providing the best possible care.
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Mandatory training
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Can any one share? The trust I work in delivers patient safety training as part of the mandatory training. I was wondering if any other trust does this, if so would they mind sharing Thier slides as I'm not sure what it should include. Thanks!- Posted
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Community PostWe know from academic research that patient engagement reduces the risk of unsafe care and harm, in patients own care and improving safety for all. Some organisations are investing time (if not money!) in recruiting, training and supporting patient leaders to work with Executives and senior staff, sharing their experience and as they engage with staff and patients, report back what they see. The model in Berkshire, as shared with me by Douglas Findlay, patient leader, is that they don’t make decisions on what needs to change and how, but report back what they see for others to learn and act. Do we know of other models of good practice? What can we learn and share from them?
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The Family Oops and Burns First Aid eBook
Kristina Stiles posted an article in Recommended books and literature
'The Family Oops and Burns First Aid' is a free children's book written by Kristina Stiles, beautifully illustrated by Jill Latter, created to support children and their families learning about burns prevention and first aid principles together. The book describes an accident prone family who are not burns aware, who have to go to school to learn about burn safety and first aid principles within the home. The book is aimed at KS1 children and their families, and is available as hard copy book by request from Children's Burns Trust and also as an audio/video book via YouTube.- Posted
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Better use of data for medication safety in hospitals
Kenny Fraser posted an article in Medicine management
NHS hospital staff spend countless hours capturing data in electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems. Yet that data remains difficult to access and use to support patient care. This is a tremendous opportunity to improve patient safety, drive efficiencies and save time for frontline staff. In this blog, Kenny Fraser, CEO of Triscribe, explains why we need to deliver quick, low-cost improvement using modern, open source software tools and techniques. We don’t need schemes and standards or metrics and quality control. The most important thing is to build software for the needs and priorities of frontline pharmacists, doctors and nurses.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Clare Crowley and Nick Woodier, National Investigators at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) look at the simple but often overlooked measures that NHS staff and organisations can take to improve the design and display of information in the workplace. They refer to a recent HSIB investigation that highlighted how the choice of information to display, and the visibility and accuracy of that information, can influence how NHS staff access and use it.
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Content ArticleDehydration can be a significant risk to people taking certain medicines. These Sick Day Rules cards aid patients in understanding the medicines they should stop taking temporarily during illness which can result in dehydration, such as vomiting, diarrhoea and fever. They are intended for use as a tool to support conversations between healthcare professionals and patients about their medicines and dehydration.
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Content ArticleOn the 23 January 2023 the Minister for Mental Health and Women’s Health Strategy, Maria Caulfield MP, announced the commencement of a rapid review into patient safety in mental health inpatient settings in England. The review Chair, Dr Geraldine Strathdee, was asked to consider how improvements could be made to the way that data and information is used in relation to patient safety in mental health inpatient care settings and pathways, including for people with a learning disability and autistic people. This report contains the findings of this review and an associated set of recommendations.
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Content ArticleThis strategy sets out how the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will listen, inform and involve people and work in partnership with organisations that represent people. The new strategy will run to 2026 and has four objectives: Build a trusted feedback service where people’s experiences drive improvements in care Create a trusted, accessible public information service designed around people’s expectations and needs Develop an inclusive approach to proactively involving people who use services, their family, carers and organisations that represent or act on their behalf in shaping our plans, policies and products Work in partnership with organisations that represent or act on behalf of people who use services to improve care
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Content ArticleThe Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality provides an infrastructure that oversees, coordinates and supports patient safety and quality efforts across Johns Hopkins' integrated healthcare system. Their mission is to eliminate patient harm, achieve best patient outcomes at the lowest possible cost and share that knowledge through research and training The Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality leads regional, national and international projects that reduce preventable harm, improve patient and clinical outcomes, and decrease health care costs. They apply a scientific approach to improvement, employing robust measures and rigorous data-collection methods that can be broadly disseminated and sustained.
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Content ArticleSickle cell disease is the name for a group of inherited red blood cell disorders that affect haemoglobin, which is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen through a person’s body. It mainly affects people from African or Caribbean backgrounds, though it can affect anyone. It affects approximately 15,000 people in the UK. In November 2021, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia published a report detailing the issues that people with sickle cell disease experience in relation to their care. The report made 31 recommendations to organisations across the healthcare system to help address these issues. HSIB launched two investigations (see also: Management of sickle cell crisis) to find out what additional learning or knowledge could be added in this area and to provide further insights into the practical challenges that patients with sickle cell disease may face when receiving NHS care. This investigation set out to review the care of patients with sickle cell disease who need to have an invasive procedure. Invasive procedures involve accessing the inside of a patient’s body, either through an incision (cut) or one of the body’s orifices. Specifically, the investigation focused on: how haematology teams – the specialists who treat people with blood disorders – are involved and informed when a patient with sickle cell disease is treated in another area of healthcare how patients with sickle cell disease are prepared for invasive procedures how and where clinical information relevant to the patient is shared.
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Transvaginal mesh case record review (20 June 2023)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Women's health
The final report on the Transvaginal Mesh Case Record Review.- Posted
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Content ArticleDigital delivery of information is the new normal and it’s important that healthcare providers adapt quickly. Informed consent in the UK needs to be backed up by the BRAN principle: Benefits, Risks and Alternatives including the option of doing Nothing. In this blog, Julie Smith, Content Director at EIDO Healthcare, will use the same principles to consider the use of digital solutions for patient information. This blog is not exhaustive but will hopefully provide some food for thought around the patient safety considerations relating to digital information.
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