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Content ArticleBubble PAPR is an innovative PPE respirator designed to keep NHS staff safe while caring for patients during COVID-19. In this video, Brendan McGrath, an NHS Intensive Care Consultant, describes how Manchester University Foundation Trust, Manchester University and Designing Science Ltd came together to re-invent the Powered Air Purifying Respirator for the covid era.
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Content ArticlePatientSafe Network in Australia has been promoting the theatre cap challenge across the world. By wearing your name on your theatre cap it can improve team work and patient safety. Here, Rob Hackett discusses the challenges in trying to change the 'system'.
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Content ArticleLast November’s HSJ Patient Safety Virtual Congress focused on the COVID-19 virtual ward model, which enables the early identification and timely management of deteriorating patients in the community - a critical step in reducing avoidable deaths from all conditions. If you missed the vital discussion, you can check it out below.
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Kate Pym, Managing Director of Pym's Consultancy, discusses the barriers involved in getting an innovative product into the NHS.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn the autumn of 2020, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) looked at how providers were working together in urgent and emergency care (UEC). Winter and the pandemic now place UEC services under exceptional pressure. It's against this context CQC are publishing examples of the innovation and creative approaches they've found so far.
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Content ArticleThe Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) has started work on the UK’s first ever Green Paper on perioperative care.
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Content ArticleThis paper, commissioned by UCB, investigates how five leading specialist hospital services in the UK are innovating in care for people with severe psoriasis, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), axial spondyloarthritis, osteoporosis and combinations of inflammatory conditions. The paper is based on interviews with a range of staff at the sites: the psoriasis clinic at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; the IBD service at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh; the axial spondyloarthritis service at the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases; the osteoporosis service at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and the specialist spondyloarthritis service at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. It describes how these services are innovating to improve care for the people who access them and deliver more holistic care that addresses individuals’ biomedical, psychological and social needs. The paper draws out possible learning for other services working with people with long-term conditions.
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Content Article'Covid Oximetry @home' describes an enhanced package of care for individuals with confirmed (or suspected) COVID-19 who are at risk for future deterioration. NHS England and Improvement wrote to all CCGs and trusts to encourage the development of local CO@H projects. The 'CO@h' package of care involves the remote monitoring of the patient's condition through providing regular contact with a local health care team who will reassess the individuals symptoms (including oxygen saturation levels). This close monitoring enables the individual to remain at their usual place of residence whilst allowing early signs of deterioration to be identified and escalated quickly and appropriately. This material has been designed primarily for use across the South East AHSN network by colleagues within the Wessex AHSN, Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN and Oxford AHSN regions. Colleagues from regions beyond the South East are also very welcome to make use of this toolkit in setting up their own local approaches to remote monitoring.
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Content ArticleThe Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children is one of London’s most respected health care institutions. Despite their long history of success, hospital leaders wanted to explore new ways to improve patient safety and decrease medical errors. In their efforts to deliver the best possible outcomes, they turned to a surprising source of inspiration. It turns out that many health care errors occur during transitions, such as transporting a patient into surgery. In rapidly changing, high-stakes moments, split-second errors can lead to disastrous outcomes. Instead of studying other hospitals, the leaders at Great Ormond Street turned to Ferrari’s Formula One pit crew team.
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Content ArticleNHS England and Improvement, in collaboration with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has selected the first antimicrobial drugs to be purchased via the UK’s innovative ‘subscription-type’ payment model. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) refers to the process by which microorganisms develop defences against antimicrobial drugs, enabling these microorganisms to adapt and become resistant to treatment. It’s a serious problem and has recently been identified as one of the World Health Organization’s top 13 global health challenges in the next decade. Without working antibiotics, routine surgery like caesarean sections or hip replacements will become too dangerous to perform, cancer chemotherapy will become prohibitively high-risk and certain infections will require long and complex treatment; or will no longer be treatable. Already, the microorganisms that cause many common diseases around the world – including tuberculosis, malaria, gonorrhoea, urinary tract infections and chest infections – can resist a wide range of antimicrobial medicines. Like all global challenges, leaders in the international community need to come forward and act on AMR, and the UK – with the NHS as the world’s largest single public health system – is taking the initiative. NHS England and Improvement project leads, Mark Perkins and David Glover, discuss this important step in tackling AMR.
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Content ArticleIn this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier speaks to Stacey Ward, Capsule Endoscopy Clinical Nurse Specialist from Barnsley Hospital. Capsule Endoscopy is a non invasive way to look inside a patient. Stacey has pioneered a nurse led endoscopy service that she is deeply proud and passionate about. Her vision and drive for the service and improvement to the patient experience and journey is inspiring.
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Content ArticleThis infographic is from Katie Martin's book, Learner-Centered Innovation: Spark Curiosity, Ignite Passion and Unleash. It highlights four key elements as key to creating a culture of learning and innovation. Give permission Offer protection Reduce and remove policies Eliminate perfectionism. This graphic can be used to spark conversation around safety culture within health and care teams, organisations and the wider healthcare service.
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Keeping staff safe during COVID-19: Risk assessments
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Staff safety
Staff safety is fundamental to running an effective health service and delivering quality care. This year has highlighted how important risk assessments are in protecting the NHS workforce, as it continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. We know that frontline healthcare staff are more at risk of becoming infected with COVID-19. We also know the virus has a disproportionate impact on staff from minority ethnic communities, and that many NHS workers are considered “clinically vulnerable” to COVID-19. There are also risk factors that relate to gender, age, weight and many more. This can understandably leave staff feeling confused about what they should and shouldn’t be doing to look after themselves and their colleagues. On 24 June, it became mandatory for all trusts to complete occupational risk assessments of vulnerable NHS workers. In this interview, Patient Safety Learning speaks to James Duez, CEO of Rainbird. James tells us how his company developed an automated decision-making tool, able to produce individualised risk assessments so that appropriate measures can be put in place quickly. -
Content ArticleBefore the emergence of the novel coronavirus and the subsequent pandemic, the health and care system had a poor track record in adopting digital technologies at scale. However, in response to the pandemic the healthcare system rapidly implemented new tools, many technology-based, to allow healthcare to be delivered when physical contact is not possible. The approach to using digital tools in health care provision is undergoing a substantial and rapid shift. Many of the technologies adopted during the first phase of the pandemic were already well established but not widely implemented; the maturity of the technology enabled the provision of healthcare through remote consultation to be much more prevalent much more quickly. Despite this recent rapid adoption of digital technologies, the health and care system remains at the early stages of digital health, with many tools replicating physical approaches and processes rather than taking advantage of what makes digital different.
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Content ArticleFalls in Pennsylvania continue to be one of the biggest contributors to patient harm and the fourth most frequently reported adverse event. Looking more broadly, falls are also a frequent cause of patient harm across the United States and globally. Allen and Wallace conducted a review of the literature to identify international strategies and novel approaches to reduce falls and falls from injury, mainly in healthcare facilities, published in the last decade. The review revealed that while no single country has been able to eradicate patient falls, several had implemented measures showing moderate levels of success. Those struggling with a high incidence of falls may benefit from reviewing and adopting one or more of these innovative techniques.
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The Beryl Institute
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in The Beryl Institute
The US Beryl Institute is the global community of practice committed to elevating the human experience in healthcare. The Beryl Institute believes human experience is grounded in experiences of patients and families, those who work in healthcare and the communities they serve. Take a look at their website for resources, learning and connections, including access to tools to build organisational experience strategy and develop skills of team members. -
Content ArticleIn these times where the pressure of track and trace is ramping up around the world in the wake of expectations of a return to normality, Matt Pattison talks with Professor Effy Vayena from ETH Zurich about her work with the Swiss government in ethics, digital and the risks and rewards viewed under an ethical lens in the TEN podcast.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic has had one of the biggest effects on work-as-done in healthcare in living memory. So what might we learn about work from the perspectives of frontline workers? Steven Shorrock asked a variety of practitioners to give a short answer – whatever came to mind. The themes that emerge centre around people, their activities, their contexts, and their tools. Many insights concerned the varieties of human work, goal conflicts, design, training, communication, teamwork, social capital, leadership, organisational hierarchy, problem solving and innovation, and – generally – change. Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives.
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Content ArticleAn educational session from The Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) dedicated to the dangers of noise and distraction in healthcare with a possible solution, Below Ten Thousand. Below Ten Thousand is a language-based safety tool for any clinical arena where 'noise and distraction' is a problem, and where high performance teams need to quickly gain 'situational awareness' and ‘directed focus’ in order to successfully navigate the perils of acute healthcare whilst providing first class interventions.
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17 September 2020 marks the second annual World Patient Safety Day. The theme this year is 'Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety'. In the run up to this special event, Patient Safety Learning are publishing a series of interviews with staff from across the health and care system to highlight key issues in staff safety and gain a clearer idea of the kind of change that needs to take place to keep staff, and ultimately patients, safe. In this interview, Patient Safety Learning's Content and Engagement Manager, Steph O'Donohue, speaks to Nick Kelly, Co-founder and CEO of the Axela Group, who specialise in health and social care services. -
Content ArticleCare Quality Commission (CQC) Chief Executive, Ian Trenholm, discusses the immediate priorities for CQC, what’s coming next with their Transitional Regulatory Approach, and further ahead to CQC's future strategy.
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Content ArticleStewart Munro, Managing Director of Pentland Medical Ltd, highlights some of the current procurement problems within the NHS and explains why this needs to change if we want to improve patient and staff safety.
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Content ArticleIt has become received wisdom that the NHS struggles to adopt digital innovation, with many government reports and research papers highlighting barriers to the spread of technology. Yet during the COVID-19 pandemic, many NHS providers have moved services online at astonishing pace. This paper, commissioned by the Academic Health Science Network, looks at four digital innovations in health services from the UK and the Nordic countries: the TeleCare North programme, which provides remote treatment for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); the Patients Know Best portal and electronic health record; remote diabetes monitoring for children at Helsinki University Hospital; and the Huoleti app that connects patients with a support network.
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Content ArticleProactive patient safety and risk prevention are key to helping healthcare organisations survey and mitigate global and local risks. Jeff Surges, Chief Executive Officer of RLDatix, explores this in his blog for Health Europa.
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Content ArticleMaryanne Mariyaselvam, Clinical Research Fellow at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, presenting at this year's Improving Patient Safety & Care 2020 conference: Safer culture, safer systems, safer patients.
