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The 12 days of digital patient safety
Clive Flashman posted an article in Digital health and care service provision
A couple of weeks ago, I presented some of the ideas I’ve had around digital clinical safety. This was seasonally branded, ‘The 12 days of Digital Patient Safety’. The 12 issues that were on my list comprised: AI – regulation, ethics and testing. Patient safety not built into the innovation process (co-design and co-production with patients is required). Patient safety (in use) not effectively built into the digital health compliance systems. Poor user experience (design). The safety of medical devices, e.g. remote hacking. Privacy and consent around data. Fragmentation of patient records and data. Lack of interoperability. Cybersecurity. Patient digital and health literacy. Clinician attitudes and knowledge of digital technologies. The barriers to EHR integration (and poor use of patient-generated data). There was only time on the webinar to cover points 2, 3, 6 and 10; I hope that we can have further session in 2022 where we can discuss the others. -
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Blog: At the edge of inside (24 June 2016)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Culture
In this opinion piece for The New York Times, David Brooks looks at the value of being 'at the edge of the inside'. He argues that being within an organisation, but not so close to the centre that you are subsumed by the 'group think', puts an individual in a good position to positively influence the organisation's culture and practice. -
Content ArticleIn this webinar recording, Gill Phillips, founder of the Whose Shoes? approach to co-production, talks about: Building the future using virtual Whose Shoes? The power of poems, with some thought-provoking and entertaining examples and crowdsourced audio Bridging the gaps between what services provide and what people actually want Health inequalities and talking to people to understand and address the real issues People disproportionately affected by the pandemic and live crowdsourcing of 'micro first steps support' Using common purpose to smash the rules, where necessary Unhelpful NHS language Whose Shoes? is being used as a quality improvement approach in over 80 NHS trusts and many other organisations.
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Content ArticleThe overarching objective of the national Adoption and Spread Safety Improvement Programme (A&S-SIP) is to identify and support the spread and adoption of effective and safe evidence-based interventions and practice. Each of the four objectives of this programme intend to make medical procedures, and discharges from acute settings, as safe as possible whilst driving forward innovation within healthcare. Learn how the programme is being delivered locally by the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative.
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Hannah Hylton is a highly specialised respiratory physiotherapist at Barts Health NHS Trust. During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was part of the team that designed the Trust’s after-Covid services, including the Living With Covid Recovery app. In this interview, Hannah explains how the app works and how it is being used by Trusts around the UK to support over 1,500 patients living with Long Covid. -
Content ArticleUptake of open-source automated insulin delivery systems is increasing globally and there is growing real-world, user-driven evidence around the safety and effectiveness of these systems. This article in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology seeks to provide, from an international perspective: a review of the current evidence a description of the technologies discussion of the ethical and legal considerations a healthcare consensus supporting the implementation of open-source systems in clinical settings, with detailed clinical guidance. The authors make recommendations for key stakeholders involved in diabetes technologies, including developers, regulators, and industry.
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For World Diabetes Day, Lotty Tizzard, Patient Safety Learning's Content and Engagement Manager, takes a look at the benefits of closed-loop insulin delivery, how patients have literally led on its development, and patient safety issues associated with artificial pancreas systems. -
Content ArticleTCC-CASEMIX has created a unique infrastructure to provide total traceability of medical device performance. This infrastructure is supported by The Association of British HealthTech Industries [ABHI]. We refer to it as an 'Open Registry Infrastructure' for medical devices. It is 'open', because unlike existing clinically focused registries, which are 'closed', we enable wide searches across the registries connected into it. It is 'open' because registries will 'declare the content' (I don't know what I don't know, so how can I search for what I don't know?) Access to this infrastructure is through a Data Access Portal which is being configured for the specific needs of each stakeholder group. We are seeking interest from patient groups who would like to join an Advisory Board to help specify how data should be presented to patients in a way that is relevant and meaningful. Our vision is to link this portal into an enhanced pre-operative assessment process, and to transform patient informed consent.
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In this blog, Claire Cox, Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Manager at Guys and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, explains why and how she developed the Patient Safety Management Network. She looks at why the network is needed, what it has achieved so far, its aims for the future and how patient safety managers can get involved. -
Content ArticleIn this episode of the podcast Health on the Line, Professor Trish Greenhalgh, professor of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford provides a scientific take on the COVID-19 pandemic and its implications on primary care and scientific innovation. The world-renowned professor and trained GP also offers her view on virtual care, vaccine inequity and why innovation happens at times of turbulence.
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Content ArticleTwo years ago, a patient safety incident at North Bristol Trust led to the introduction of Swarm – a step change in how the trust responds to safety incidents. Swarm is a form of safety incident huddle that takes place as close as possible in time and place to the incident, allows blame-free investigation and leads to prompt action. This article describes how Swarm works, its advantages over root cause analysis, and how it is being embedded in the safety culture of North Bristol Trust.
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EventuntilDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, partnership and collaboration between the NHS, patient and community organisations, and the life-sciences sector has been vital in enabling the system to adapt quickly and effectively to new challenges. This free online event will explore how this approach can be embedded to support system recovery and enable transformation, particularly where COVID-19 has led to significant disruption of services for people with long-term conditions. It will identify the challenges and opportunities people with long-term conditions face in securing good-quality, person-centred care, as well as the role of innovation in supporting early intervention, ensuring access to care in the right place at the right time and reducing pressures on hospital services. Register
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WireSafe® is an innovative solution designed to prevent retained guidewires during central venous catheter (CVC) insertion. Retained guidewires are never events that require urgent removal if accidentally left in. They occur in about 1 in 300,000 procedures. We interviewed Maryanne, who developed the WireSafe®, on the innovation, the human factor considerations in designing it and the difficulties she faced getting a new product into the NHS. -
News ArticleThe first new sickle-cell treatment in 20 years will help keep thousands of people out of hospital over the next three years, NHS England has said. Sickle-cell disease is incurable and affects 15,000 people in the UK. And the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said the hope of reducing health inequalities for black people, who are predominantly affected and often have poorer health to start with, made the drug worth recommending. It called it "an innovative treatment". Read full story Source: BBC News, 5 October 2021
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Content ArticleThis video presents some highlights of the HSJ Patient Safety Awards on 20 September 2021 at Manchester Central, and includes short interviews with some of the judges and award winners. The HSJ Patient Safety Awards were set up to recognise and celebrate projects that improve patient safety and quality of care. This year, the judges commented that nominees across 23 categories were all of a very high quality and presented innovative projects that made real improvements to patient safety in the NHS. "The quality of this year was quite phenomenal - we were really impressed at how inventive people had been in coming up with solutions to COVID as part of safety strategies," said Lesley Durham, President of the International Society of Rapid Response Systems and member of the awards judging panel. The awards showcase excellent projects and ways of working that have potential to be replicated in other areas. A team from Devon Partnership Trust/Royal Devon and Exeter Foundation Trust won the award for Mental Health Initiative of the Year for their project 'Connecting physical and mental health services in Gastroenterology'. A representative from the team said, "What we want to do now is take this, shout about it and make it happen elsewhere." Many award winners commented on the importance of teamwork across services and trusts and recognised that collaboration was a key part of the success of their projects. View the full list of award winners
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EventuntilOn 8 November 2021, Public Policy Projects is hosting over 300 senior leaders in the heart of Westminster for a high-level day conference designed to turn policy into actionable insights in the healthcare and life science sectors. PPP will host a series of national and international keynote speakers including Ministers, governmental leaders and key providers for this strategic look at delivering innovation. Themes: Integrated Care / Implications of Health Bill Health Inequalities in UK The Life Sciences Vision Future Vaccination Programmes The event is free to the public sector and for commercial companies there is a fee to attend. Register to attend the conference for health care and life sciences
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Content ArticleThis report by The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust identifies successes and areas for improvement in the Trust's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic resulted in rapid and large-scale changes to ways of working and this report recognises that staff were largely responsive and adaptable to these changes in challenging circumstances. The report looks at learning and recommendations from: the Duty of Candour exercise carried out for patients who contracted COVID-19 in hospital the Trust's clinical teams.
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Content ArticleThis article in Patient Safety looks at a new approach to identifying and monitoring patients with sepsis developed by a team of nurses at WellSpan Health in the USA. The Central Alert Team (CAT) works remotely, looking for indicators of sepsis in patient charts and vital signs. They relay information and treatment advice to nurses working at the bedside and take an adaptive approach to find the best ways of working. This focused approach means the CAT nurses are able to quickly identify patients who are deteriorating and ensure treatment is administered at the right time.
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Improving Patient Outcomes (ImPrOve) Initiative
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
A European Think Tank working to address and propose solutions for an important public health issue – serious complication rates in the 30 days after high-risk surgery remain high. The ImPrOve Initiative aim to improve awareness, monitoring, and management of haemodynamic instability, particularly intraoperative hypotension which refers to the lowering of blood pressure during surgery. -
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Winners of HSJ Patient Safety Awards 2021 revealed
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Last night’s HSJ Patient Safety Awards celebrated the innovative work of frontline NHS teams in a year when the challenge and necessity of keeping the public safe had never been greater. Patient Safety Team of the Year was St Luke’s Cancer Centre and the pharmacy team from Royal Surrey Foundation Trust, who achieved ambitious change to reduce the risk of covid infections of cancer patients. This year saw the introduction of the Improving Care for Children and Young People Initiative of the Year which was won by Humber Teaching FT and Hull CCG for their Humber Sensory Processing Hub. Website The Patient Safety Awards celebrate the teams at the frontline pushing the boundaries of patient safety and driving cultural change to minimise risk, enhance quality of care and ultimately save lives. Read full story Source: HSJ, 21 September 2021 -
News ArticleSurgical hubs, new technology and innovative ways of working will help tackle waiting lists and treat around 30% more elective care patients by 2023 to 2024. Backed by a new £36 billion investment in health and social care over the next 3 years, ‘doing things differently’ and embracing innovation will be the driving force to get the NHS back on track. The funding will see the NHS deliver an extra 9 million checks, scans and operations for patients across the country, but it’s not enough to simply plug the elective gaps. The NHS will push forward with faster and more streamlined methods of treatments. Surgical hubs already being piloted in a number of locations, including London, are helping fast-track the number of planned operations, including cataract removal, hysterectomies and hip and knee replacements, and will be expanded across the country. Located on existing hospital sites, surgical hubs bring together the skills and resource under one roof while limiting infection risk and providing a COVID-secure environment, with more planned to open in the coming year. The NHS has been trialling a range of new ways of working in 12 areas, backed by £160 million, to accelerate the recovery of services. This includes setting up pop-up clinics so patients can be treated quickly, in person, and discharged closer to home, as well as virtual wards and home assessments to allow patients to receive medical support from the comfort of their home, freeing up beds in hospitals. GP surgeries are using artificial intelligence to help prioritise patients most in need and identify the right level of care and support needed for patients on waiting lists. The latest cancer tests being deployed across the NHS are also helping speed up diagnosis and spot cancer early on. Thanks to the hard work of staff, a quarter of a million people were checked for cancer in June – the second highest number on record – and more than 27,000 people started treatment for cancer in the same period. Professor Steve Powis, NHS England medical director, said: "Although the pandemic is still with us and we will have to live with the impact of COVID for some time, the NHS has already made effective use of additional resources to recover services. From adopting the latest technologies to more evening and weekend working, NHS staff are going to great lengths to increase the number of operations carried out. The further funding announced this week will support staff to deliver millions more vital checks, tests and operations, so if you have a health concern, please do come forward to receive the care and treatment you may need." Read full story Source: 8 September, Department of Health and Social Care
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THIS Space 2021
Patient Safety Learning posted an event in Community Calendar
untilTHIS Space, is now open for registration. It will be held online on 24 and 25 November 2021. Aiming to promote interdisciplinary and intergenerational exchange to build the field of healthcare improvement studies, THIS Space is open to all and free to attend for those in the UK and internationally. The event will create space for interaction, networking, and sharing – you can find out more about the programme here. THIS Space aims to: provide a focus for knowledge sharing in healthcare improvement stimulate innovation and fresh thinking help researchers to develop the habits, knowledge, skills, and experiences to support their professional growth connect colleagues from across different disciplines who share a common goal be a means of accelerating the development of the field of the study of healthcare. Register -
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Leading Healthcare Innovation Summit
Sam posted an event in Community Calendar
In the dawn of a new era for digital and health tech transformation, the Leading Healthcare Innovation Summit looks to bring together emerging communities in healthcare to solve the most pressing issues facing the UK healthcare sector. It will be addressing the sector’s biggest challenges and concerns including the mental health of clinicians and patients; clinical pathways; diversity and inclusion in data and products; service and user inclusive design; remote patient monitoring; virtual consultations and ICS development. You will leave with action points to push forward your digital health projects, aided with the tools and knowledge to make digital innovation a reality in your organisation. Register -
Content ArticleThis independent study report is designed to be accessible, informative and a tool for learning and change. In its preparation, the project team has aimed to: develop a greater understanding of why staff across the system implemented new practices and innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic; demonstrate an inherent ‘permission’ to apply innovation and transformative change; evidence practical, real world examples of innovation that support the application of good practices to other areas; showcase NHS Wales as a leader in implementing innovation and new ways of working throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A broad range of qualitative and quantitative evidence has been gathered from practitioners at all levels of the healthcare system, who have worked tirelessly to adapt to an unprecedented set of circumstances while still caring for and protecting Welsh citizens.
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Content ArticleThis evidence report aims to identify changes across health and social care in response to COVID-19 that could offer potentially sustainable benefits..Frontier Economics, Kaleidoscope Health and Care, and RAND Europe were commissioned to lead this independent rapid review, with three core aims: Understand the impact of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in relation to innovation, research and collaboration across the health and care system Identify any methods/practices which would support the development and adoption of high impact changes identified in the existing Beneficial Changes Network (BCN) evidence, whilst considering the impact on health inequalities Propose recommendations to support current activities and inform future priorities of the Accelerated Access Collaborative and BCN, and the wider health and social care system.
