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Content ArticleChapter 28 of this book covers The Impact of Facility Design on Patient Safety.
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Safer staffing - guidance from NHS Improvement
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Safe staffing levels
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Content ArticleThis Care Quality Commission (CQC) report focuses on why avoidable harm remains a persistent problem within healthcare.
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Content ArticleNHS Improvement have published a number of case studies on appropriate use of clinical risk assessment tools, developing new evidence-based alerting systems and developing personalised risk management plans for people who use services, to manage risks positively.
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Content ArticleDr Dan Cohen, former military officer in the United States Air Force and international consultant in Patient Safety and Clinical Quality, talks to Patient Safety Learning about how he became involved in patient safety and why he thinks human performance is an area that deserves more study. He feels strongly that leaders must stand up and share their own stories and mistakes to encourage others to start talking and sharing more openly.
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Chief Medical Officer to lead the fight against AMR
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Public Health Minister, Seema Kennedy, has confirmed that Professor Dame Sally Davies will take on the role of UK Special Envoy on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) later this year. Dame Sally will be working across all sectors to deliver a ‘One Health’ response to AMR, which includes health, agriculture and the environment. The appointment of Dame Sally follows the government’s 20-year vision and 5-year national action plan published earlier this year, setting out how the UK will contribute to containing and controlling AMR by 2040. Professor Dame Sally Davies said: “AMR is a complex challenge which needs local, national and global action. The UK should be proud of its world-leading work on AMR. We have made tangible progress but it is essential we maintain momentum. I am honoured to have been asked to continue this vital work on behalf of the UK government.” Last year the government committed £32 million funding to accelerate the UK’s work in the global fight against AMR. The awarded funding will support the development of a state-of-the-art, virtual ‘open access’ centre that will link health outcomes and prescribing data. This technology, led by Public Health England (PHE), will gather real-time patient data on resistant infections, helping clinicians to make more targeted choices about when to use antibiotics and cutting unnecessary prescriptions. PHE will use £5 million in funding to develop a fully functional model ward, the first of its kind in the UK, to better understand how hospital facilities can be designed to improve infection control and reduce the transmission of antibiotic-resistant infections. Other successful funds include £4.4 million to Manchester University to test ‘individualised’ approaches to antibiotic prescribing by bringing together patient care and clinical research, and £3.5 million to the University of Liverpool to apply innovative genome sequencing to enable more personalised antibiotic prescribing. Public Health Minister Seema Kennedy said: “Antibiotic resistance poses an enormous risk to our NHS – we are already seeing the harmful effect resistant bugs can have on patient safety in our hospitals. It is vital that we retain the irreplaceable expertise of Professor Dame Sally Davies – an international expert in AMR – and continue to invest in research.” -
Content ArticleDespite 20 years of effort, every year avoidable unsafe care still leads tens of thousands of patients to suffer death or serious, life-changing harm. A Blueprint for Action, a report from Patient Safety Learning, furthers the analysis of the systemic causes of this harm and describes actions to make patient care safer. Last September, health and patient safety professionals and patients overwhelmingly welcomed the analysis of avoidable unsafe care offered in Patient Safety Learning’s Green Paper, A Patient-Safe Future. Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care described it as “…the blueprint for action that we need.” Following widespread consultation on the Green Paper, A Blueprint for Action extends this analysis to identify actions to address the systemic causes of unsafe care.
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Content ArticleDeveloping the right people with the right skills and the right values is recognised as a key priority to enable the sustainable delivery of health services, as leadership is one of the most influential factors in shaping an organisational culture. Ensuring the necessary leadership behaviours, strategies and qualities are developed is fundamental. The aim of this document, developed by NHS England and Health Education England, is to give both Integrated Urgent Care (IUC)/NHS 111 service employers and employees some guidance about this key topic.
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Content ArticleThis report from The King's Fund presents an analysis of data from a 2017 NHS providers survey of leadership vacancies in NHS trusts and foundation trusts, and the results of qualitative interviews and a roundtable The King’s Fund conducted with frontline leaders and national stakeholders. The report focuses on executive directors within the NHS trust and foundation trust sector.
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Content ArticleThe Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) standards for healthcare teams provides evidence-based guidance on what FMLM expects of healthcare teams focused around four key domains: culture vision and strategy management and people relationships.
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Content ArticleThe Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in the United States has developed a model that health systems can use to adapt and thrive in uncertain times by creating direction, alignment and commitment.
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Content ArticleThis guide, by NHS Improvement, contains key questions for chairs, chief executives and senior leaders about common barriers to clinicians taking part in senior organisational management. It addresses the NHS Long Term Plan priority around nurturing the next generation of leaders and supporting all those with the capability and ambition to reach the most senior levels of the service. It was developed in response to the 2018 recommendations to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to ensure more clinicians from all professional backgrounds take on strategic leadership roles.
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Content ArticleThe Director of Medical Education (DME) at Oxford University NHS Foundation Trust developed a range of forums for junior doctor engagement with the trust, via representative groups, which meet, individually, with senior executives 10-12 times a year. These forums include a foundation year group, core medical trainee group, medical registrar group and more recently a surgical and anaesthetic group. Each group is chaired by a junior doctor, who sets the agenda and is responsible for organising the meetings. This structure emphasises that the forum’s agenda is focused on the needs and concerns of trainees, and encourages attendance and discussion.
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Content ArticleDr George Findlay, Medical Director at Western Sussex Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, talks on the theme of 'Becoming well-led' and how leadership can deliver quality improvement through engaging and empowering staff.
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Content ArticleThis leadership model was produced by the NHS Leadership Academy. Aimed at all employees of healthcare, regardless of grade or role, it sets out how anyone can develop as a leader.
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Martin Hancock discusses Regional Talent Boards
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Leadership
Martin Hancock, Director of Talent Management at the NHS Leadership Academy, discusses how Regional Talent Boards came about and the core principles that underpin them. -
Content ArticleWas a lack of situational awareness a contributing factor in the outcome of this 'routine operation'? In this human factors video, Martin Bromiley, a pilot, explains what happened that day and what measures need to be in place to prevent other similar incidents.
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Content ArticleA presentation by Shelia Yates on root cause analysis and Just Culture. Shelia is trained and educated in the performance of behaviour health services through interpersonal communications and analysis.
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Fostering Just Culture - a clinical leader view
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Good practice
Amy Shaw, Clinical Leader, Specialist Learning Disability Division from Mersey Care Foundation NHS Trust, UK talks about 'fostering a just culture' in her trust. -
Content ArticleA template used by St Joseph Health, in the USA, to guide you through a just culture scenario.
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Content ArticleProfessor Sidney Dekker of Griffith University speaks about why things go wrong.
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Content ArticleThis joint project with East Berkshire CCG was highlighted within the AKI Programme within Oxford Patient Safety Collaborative. Fewer residents are suffering urinary tract infections (UTIs) following the introduction of a hydration programme in care homes. UTIs are closely associated with dehydration. This project was designed to encourage residents to drink more fluids with the aim that this would lead to fewer UTIs requiring medication or hospital admission. This approach involved introducing structured drinks rounds seven times a day, designed and delivered by care home staff. The initial focus was in four care homes which had higher than average UTI admission to hospital rates.
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Content ArticleAmy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, talks about building a psychological safe workplace for staff in this TEDx talk.
