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Content ArticleIn this briefing paper for the Social Market Foundation, Lord Norman Warner sets out a radical change programme that could reverse the decline in NHS services. It examines long-term issues that have been exacerbated by the impact of Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic—the care backlog, workforce issues and loss of public confidence.
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Content ArticleThis blog by the charity Mental Health UK looks at an innovative project that aims to transform the way care and support are delivered to people living with severe mental illness in Grimsby and Bridgend. It aims to meet people’s mental health needs by providing tailored support, signposting them to specialist services to improve their quality of life, prevent the need for emergency crisis care and reduce pressure on acute medical services. The project is being run in conjunction with healthcare company Johnson & Johnson UK, with the support of the local NHS. The project involves Community Mental Health Navigators supporting the non-medical needs of people living with severe mental illness, such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder. They provide support with aspects of people’s lives which can drive poor mental health, such as housing, money problems, employment, physical wellbeing and lack of social connections.
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Content ArticleThis online community has been set up by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to engage with members of the public on a range of topics related to the CQC's work as regulator of health and social care services in the UK. The site invites people to get involved in different ways, for example: by sharing expertise, experience and thoughts through discussions. by reviewing documents. by taking part in polls and surveys. by contributing to idea boards. When signing up, you can either use your own name or your organisation’s name, and you'll be asked to choose what groups you represent and what sectors you work in or use.
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‘Innovation put over safety’ at world-famous hospital
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A world-famous hospital has a culture where some staff may put research interests above patient safety, according to an external investigation. A report published yesterday cited some employees at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children Foundation Trust as saying “they feel that the hospital sometimes put too much emphasis on pushing the boundaries of science” and “are concerned [this] may lead to a culture where some prioritise innovation over safety in their practice”. The trust’s medical director Sanjiv Sharma commissioned the report into the effectiveness of its safety procedures, from consultancy Verita, in 2020, after families of several patients who died at the hospital raised concerns in the media about how it responded to safety incidents. The report said: “We believe that it is sometimes culturally difficult within Great Ormond Street to accept that things can go wrong and to respond appropriately. We were told that some see the organisation as ‘bullet-proof’ in the face of criticism." “There is also a view outside the trust that some clinicians at Great Ormond Street can find it difficult to accept that something had gone wrong. Some believe that this reflex is deeply ingrained. This is potentially indicative of a culture of defensiveness. Acknowledging this trait is the first step on the road to changing it.” Dr Sharma said in a statement yesterday that GOSH had already taken steps to improve its culture and systems, appointing patient safety educators and patient safety leads in each directorate. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 7 July 2022- Posted
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NHS to test using drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to Isle of Wight
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The NHS plans to use drones to fly chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients in England to avoid the need for long journeys to collect them. The devices will transport doses from Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight in a trial that, if successful, will lead to drones being used for similar drops elsewhere. They will take 30 minutes to travel acrss the Solent, which will save patients on the island a three to four-hour round trip by ferry or hovercraft. On Tuesday, Amanda Pritchard, NHS England’s chief executive, unveiled the move to help mark the 74th anniversary of the health service’s creation by the postwar Labour government. “Delivering chemo by drone is another extraordinary development for cancer patients and shows how the NHS will stop at nothing to ensure people get the treatment they need as promptly as possible, while also cutting costs and carbon emissions,” she said. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 5 July 2022 -
Content ArticleThis paper in the journal Learning Health Systems examines what would be needed to develop learning health systems (LHS) in the United Kingdom, considering national policy implications and actions which local organisations and health systems could take. It identifies opportunities for local NHS organisations to make better use of health data and ways that national policy could promote greater use of collaboration and analytics.
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Content ArticleThis article in The Milbank Quarterly summarises an extensive literature review addressing the question, "How can we spread and sustain innovations in health service delivery and organisation?" The authors identify three key outputs of the systematic review: A parsimonious and evidence-based model for considering the diffusion of innovations in health service organisations Clear knowledge gaps on which further research on the diffusion of innovations in service organisations should be focused A robust and transferable methodology for systematically reviewing complex research evidence
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EventIn its 15th year, the HSJ Patient Safety Congress is the largest annual event to unite patient safety leaders, front-line innovators, national policymakers and patient representatives from across the UK to learn and exchange ideas that will transform patient safety and standards of care. Patient safety is a field that never stands still. Practitioners across the patient pathway are dedicated to continuous improvement and improving the patient experience, ensuring equity of care for all and optimising outcomes. As a result of this Congress, changes have been made to medical textbooks and led to new research being commissioned. But more importantly, it is through this event that changes are made within teams and organisations that help save lives. This year’s Congress will address both new and long-standing patient safety challenges, offering new insights, practical ideas and actionable solutions to help improve care in your organisation: Building a restorative culture. Integrating human factors approach to improve safety. Focusing on patient safety in non-acute settings. Practical approaches to patient and family engagement. Safety and equality in women’s health. Protecting and supporting our workforce. Improving governance and regulation to achieve consistent care. Encouraging clinician-led innovation. Examining safety for vulnerable people. Recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient. Breaking the cycle of repeat errors to advance the safety agenda. Responding to catastrophe in a healthcare setting. Reversing the impact of normalised deviance on patient safety. Eliminating unnecessary deaths in a post-pandemic. Register
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Content ArticleAs a clinician, Abraar Karan rarely sees a patient die from Covid-19 anymore. Those who end up in the hospital these days have benefited from the immense advances in clinical science that have brought us vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, and antivirals, and taught us how best to use these and other existing medications, such as steroids, to save patients’ lives. Collectively, this is an enormous accomplishment. It’s not, however, the end of the pandemic. The end of covid-19 will not be a clinical feat, but a public health one. We need public health innovation from our governments, writes Abraar in this BMJ opinion article.
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Content ArticleComplexity is often talked about in health services research, but it has not been sufficiently studied. In this article in the journal BMC Medicine, the authors argue that in open systems characterised by dynamically changing inter-relationships and tensions, conventional research designs must be augmented by the study of how we can best deal with uncertainty, unpredictability and emergent causality. They propose an agenda for future research and invite researchers to contribute to the conversation.
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Content ArticleThe health and social care system’s long-term sustainability depends on effective digital transformation. This document outlines the government's plans to reform and develop the use of digital technologies in health and social care in order to deliver a system that will be faster, more effective and more personalised. The plan pulls together the four goals of reform for the health and care system identified by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care: prevent people’s health and social care needs from escalating personalise health and social care and reduce health disparities improve the experience and impact of people providing services transform performance
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Blog - introducing No Wrong Door (22 September 2021)
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This blog describes No Wrong Door (NWD), an adult community mental health transformation programme being rolled out across Hampshire, Southampton, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth. The NWD model takes a partnership approach and recognises that mental health is affected by quality of housing, employment, family and personal contacts, leisure and cultural activities, technological solutions and other community resources such as green spaces. Mental health services will work together with the community to ensure that care can be provided locally, and that support can be received in several settings for multiple aspects of a person’s life.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis storyboard poster explains the aims, methods and results of No Wrong Door, a project run by North Yorkshire County Council to ensure young people access the right services, at the right time and in the right place to meet their needs. Young people who enter care during their teenage years tend to spend considerable periods in residential care. They are more likely to have placement breakdowns and can follow a path of multiple placements, over time becoming distrusting of positive relationships, disengaging from education and training and falling into patterns of risky behaviour. No Wrong Door is an integrated service for complex and troubled young people. Their needs are addressed within a single team. Operating from two Hubs, No Wrong Door brings together a variety of accommodation options, a range of services and outreach support under one management umbrella. It is a partnership between seven district councils, nine housing providers, health services (including child and adolescent mental health services) and the police.
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UK to strengthen regulation of medical devices to protect patients
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New plans to strengthen the regulation of medical devices to improve patient safety and encourage innovation have been published. Following the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has a unique opportunity to improve how medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices (IVDs) are regulated in the UK. The package of reforms will apply to medical devices such as hearing aids, x-ray machines and insulin pumps; new technologies such as smartphone apps and Artificial Intelligence (AI); as well as certain cosmetic products like dermal fillers. The new measures include: Strengthening the MHRA’s powers to act to keep patients safe. Giving the public and patients greater assurance on both the performance and safety of the highest-risk medical devices, such as those which need to be implanted. Increasing the scope and extent of regulation to respond to public need. Enhancing systems that are already in place to better protect users of medical devices and certain cosmetic products, and providing greater assurance of their performance and safety. Addressing health disparities and mitigating identified inequities throughout medical devices development and use. Mitigating against inequities in medical devices, ensuring they function as intended for diverse populations. The government has launched a review into the potential equity issues in the design and use of medical devices to tackle health inequalities and will update in due course. Making the UK a focus for innovation, and the best place to develop and introduce innovative medical devices. Ensuring the new regulatory framework encourages responsible innovation so that patients in the UK are better able to access the most advanced medical devices to meet their needs. Setting world-leading standards and building the new UKCA mark. Transforming a new stamp of certification, replacing the CE mark, into a trusted brand that signifies global safety, health and environment protection standards have been met for medical device products. This will in turn boost the MHRA’s global reputation and growing partnerships with other regulators. Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said: "Now we have left the EU, these new changes will allow innovation to thrive and ensure UK patients are among the first to benefit from technological breakthroughs." "We are now able to introduce some of the most robust safety measures in the world for medical devices to ensure patients are protected." Read press release Source: Gov.UK, 26 June 2022- Posted
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Content ArticleIn this video, Michal Seres, who lives with Crohn's disease, talks about his experience of living with an ostomy bag and how he came to develop his own tools to help manage his treatment. Michael established 11 Health, a company which aims to create a collaborative community of patients, healthcare professionals and researchers to develop digital health solutions for patients with chronic illness. Michael talks about the importance of including patients in developing devices and treatments, and how positive, supportive relationships foster collaboration.
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Government to pick ‘integration frontrunners’ to test ‘radical new approaches’
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Government will pick five or six ‘integration frontrunner’ areas ‘to lead the way in developing and testing radical new approaches’ to speeding up discharge from acute hospitals. Along with NHS England, ministers today wrote to local NHS and council directors asking for bids to take part by 30 June. They said there was “a need to take a more fundamental look at [how the] system currently manages the discharge of patients, their post-acute care, and their access to high-quality social care”. The “discharge integration frontrunner sites” will focus on exploring “new service models, such as the delivery of a more integrated model for intermediate care across existing health and social care”, and “designing and testing new enabling arrangements, which might include new funding models, more integrated workforce models, or the deployment of new technologies”, their letter said. They said speeding up hospital discharge was “just one” potential benefit from integration and indicated that “future phases” of frontrunners may focus elsewhere. But delayed discharge has been a major pressure on the system over the past year, particularly last winter, and the letter says: “Delayed discharges are one very visible signal that the health and care system remains fragmented and too often fails to deliver joined-up services that meet people’s needs.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 21 June 2022- Posted
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Content ArticleThe NHS Confederation has published a new report, 'The unequal impact of COVID-19: investigating the effect on people with certain protected characteristics', which maps existing research into COVID-19 inequalities onto some of these protected characteristics, showing how the pandemic has interacted with them. The report then showcases four case studies of how different health and care systems have put in place interventions to respond to these inequalities when designing their COVID-19 response. It focuses on a number of key areas including the impact of COVID-19 on: BAME communities people with disabilities older and younger people. The report concludes with a series of recommendations for health and care systems across the UK.
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Content ArticleBenjamin King lived 5-days before parents, Jamie Thomas King and Tamara Podemski, had to pull him off life support. Benjamin's parents share their experience, the value of sharing their story with the media and what changes have happened in UK hospitals since to ensure this won't happen to any other family. The panel discusses the role of human factors and system design and how it can be embraced to ramp up patient safety improvement. Human factors experts across healthcare and aviation will discuss this issue alongside patient advocates who have lost loved ones where the application of principles and methodologies of human factors engineering may have saved their loved ones lives. Hear from the leadership at Christus Muguerza Hospital Sur in Monterrey, Mexico, about their work to become an HRO Champion.
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Content ArticleDr Gordon Hay, service director of A&E/urgent care services at Moorfields Eye Hospital discusses with Digital Health the challenge to minimising hospital visits during the pandemic and how Moorfields Eye Hospital utilised a video conference platform to implement a fully functional virtual A&E service, providing an effective hybrid care delivery model for the future.
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Content ArticleSurgeons' News is a magazine for surgical, dental and allied healthcare professionals. Published quarterly by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, it features comment and opinion from leading professionals, plus reviews and reports on subjects relevant to all career levels. In an article in the June issue (page 18), Maryanne Mariyaselvam describes some of the latest solutions being developed to protect patients and clinicians from potential errors.
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Innovative Medicines Fund launched to fast-track drugs
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Patients in England can get early access to more cutting-edge medicines through a new fund. The Innovative Medicines Fund (IMF) works like the existing Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF), fast-tracking promising treatments, even if they are expensive and have not yet been approved for routine NHS use. It will cover potentially life-saving drugs for rare and genetic diseases. The government has allocated up to £680m a year to be shared by the funds. The IMF, like the CDF, will mean a newly approved medicine could be prescribed immediately, before final recommendations on it are drawn up by the advisory body that weighs the cost versus benefit of drugs used by the NHS - an organisation called NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence). Patients would be able to access the treatment while data is collected for NICE to determine whether the medicine is affordable and effective enough to offer more widely. A similar fund for innovative treatments - the New Medicines Fund - already exists in Scotland. Wales has a New Treatments Fund that helps pay for high-cost drugs which have been recommended as cost-effective by NICE. Experts hope funds like these will improve the lives of many who might otherwise miss out. Read full story Source: BBC News, 7 June 2022- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Improvement Analytics Unit (IAU) was set up in 2016 as an innovative partnership between the Health Foundation and NHS England and NHS Improvement. It was tasked with evaluating the impact of some of the major new initiatives in health care in order to support learning and improvement in the NHS. Arne Wolters is Head of the IAU, leading a team of analysts across the Health Foundation and NHS England and NHS Improvement. Together they work on detailed evaluation studies and provide rapid feedback to NHS leaders and decision makers, helping to identify what’s working well to improve outcomes. Here Arne discusses what the unit has achieved over the last 6 years, and what new plans are forming for the future.
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Human-centered design is a practical, repeatable approach to arriving at innovative solutions. DesignKit 'methods' are step-by-step guides to unleashing your creativity, putting the people you serve at the centre of your design process to come up with new answers to difficult problems.- Posted
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