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Content ArticleEverybody responds differently to the stresses and strains of modern life. We all need and, to a degree, thrive on pressure: it gives us energy, helps with performance and inspires confidence. But excessive pressure can lead to stress. Stress may become a problem when someone feels they don’t have the resources to cope with the demands placed upon them. Harmful levels of stress can lead to a mental health condition such as anxiety or depression. This booklet from the Devon Partnership NHS Trust aims to give you some very practical information and guidance – and provides spaces for you to make notes so you can make it work for you.
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Content ArticleMINDFUL EMPLOYER provides employers with easier access to information and support in relation to supporting staff who experience stress, anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions. Run by Workways, a service of Devon Partnership NHS Trust, MINDFUL EMPLOYER was developed with employers in Exeter and launched in October 2004. This completely voluntary initiative has since attracted interest and commitment from hundreds of small, medium and large employers from all sectors throughout the UK. The initiative provides a wide range of information and signposting to local, regional and national support services.
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NHS Employers: NHS Health and Wellbeing Framework
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Staff safety
Looking after the health and wellbeing of your staff is paramount. Investing in staff health and wellbeing not only delivers benefits for your organisation, but ultimately for the patients in your care. NHS England has worked with 12 NHS organisations to create a Health and Wellbeing Framework and accompanying diagnostic tool to help NHS organisations plan and implement their own approach for improving staff health and wellbeing. This framework has been developed by NHS Employers, NHS England and NHS Improvement with support from partners across the NHS, voluntary sector and government to bring best practice, research and insights together in one accessible place for the first time for NHS organisations. -
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NHS Employers: Emotional wellbeing toolkit resources
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Staff safety
NHS Employers provide an emotional wellbeing toolkit to help you track your emotional wellbeing and support others. If you're a manager, a team leader or looking for yourself, there are resources here for you. -
Content ArticleDr Claud Regnard (Honory Consultant in Palliative Care Medicine, St Oswald’s Hospice) explains the Mental Capacity Act (England and Wales) and the legal requirements for making best Interest decisions when someone lacks capacity to make a particular decision. This webinar was produced by the Palliative Care for People with Learning Disabilities (PCPLD) Network.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic is placing unprecedented pressure on a nursing workforce that is already under considerable mental strain due to an overloaded system. Convergent evidence from the current and previous pandemics indicates that nurses experience the highest levels of psychological distress compared with other health professionals. Nurse leaders face particular challenges in mitigating risk and supporting nursing staff to negotiate moral distress and fatigue during large-scale, sustained crises. This paper from Sriharan et al. aims to (1) synthesise existing literature on COVID-19-related burnout and moral distress among nurses and (2) identify recommendations for nurse leaders to support the psychological needs of nursing staff.
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Content ArticleSpace From Covid programme is made up of six modules, each addressing issues you may be experiencing due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Each module provides clinically-backed support for trouble sleeping, coping with stress, developing mindfulness, financial worries and experiencing grief and loss. SilverCloud is offering this service completely free of charge and for anyone to use. The average module takes 30 minutes to complete and is accessible 24/7 from a smartphone, tablet or computer.
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Content ArticleContinuing Professor Martin Langham's 'Why investigate' blog series, colleague Bobbie Enright turns to the topic of fatigue, looking at the causes and preventions, how it can impact on our work and how we can manage it.
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How are you feeling today NHS? toolkit (14 January 2019)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Staff safety
It’s easier to recognise someone’s physical wellbeing than their emotional wellbeing. We also find it much easier to engage in conversations about physical health, but often find talking about emotional wellbeing to be more of a challenge. The implications of decreased emotional wellbeing are detrimental as it can contribute to mental health and stress concerns, it is important to ensure good staff wellbeing by encouraging conversation in the workplace. -
Content ArticleFrom infection control to maintaining safe staffing levels, the COVID-19 pandemic has helped to highlight the intrinsic link between patient safety and staff safety. At the recent Future of Hospitals event from Health Plus Care Online, Helen Hughes, Patient Safety Learning's CEO, Timothy Clark, Founder & CEO of Leader Factor, and Claire Cox, Guys and St Thomas' Hospital, explore this further, considering how ensuring staff safety supports making improvements to patient safety. They consider the essential role that creating a psychologically safe workplace plays in enabling staff to speak up and effectively tackle incidents of unsafe care.
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Content ArticleThe Health Innovation Network's Patient Safety and Experience team have been working with behavioural insights specialists to create materials based on a behavioural science approach to support frontline health and care staff to prioritise their physical health and emotional wellbeing needs that may have been neglected due to the impact of COVID-19. The campaign takes a peer to peer approach since it was found staff can struggle to identify signs of stress in themselves and are better at spotting this within colleagues.
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Miscarriage for Men
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Men's health
Miscarriage for Men, was set up by Chris Whitfield. Chris and his wife Jade suffered a miscarriage in February 2021, and on the back of this, Chris realised that there was very little support or anywhere to turn to for men, who were going through the agony of miscarriage. Men often choose to hide their emotions rather than speak up. This platform is for them to release that emotion, read stories from men in a similar scenario and let them know they are not alone. This website will point people in the direction of guidance, self help techniques to combat these emotions, a forum with real life stories, a chat function and many other helpful tools. -
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It has become imperative that we discuss the issue of mental health in doctors and other healthcare staff. The mental wellbeing of a healthcare staff forms the bedrock of patient safety. It takes a safe and supported person to deliver safe healthcare and we must give this attention as we try to find ways to improve the quality of care within our healthcare systems. Ehi Iden, hub topic lead for Occupational Health and Safety, OSHAfrica, reflects on the increasing workload and pressure healthcare professionals face, the impact this has on patient safety and why we need to start 're-humanising' the workplace. -
Content ArticleThis study, published in Occupational Medicine, aimed to identify the rates of probable mental health disorder in staff working in intensive care units in nine English hospitals during June and July 2020. Results showed: Almost half of intensive care unit staff who participated in this study report symptoms consistent with a probable diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder, severe depression or anxiety or problem drinking. Around one in seven intensive care unit staff in this study report recent thoughts of self-harm or of wanting to be better off dead. Nursing staff in this study were more likely to report higher levels of distress than doctors or other clinical staff.
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Addressing the risk of moral injury (February 2021)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Staff safety
This blog, published by the Good Governance Institute, looks at the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the mental health of frontline intensive care unit (ICU) staff - within the context of moral injury. Moral injury refers to the intense psychological distress which can follow the taking of actions, or inaction, which strongly clash with someone’s moral or ethical code. This blog includes advice for Boards on how to begin to respond and support their workforce. -
Content ArticleDespite the effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty (TKA; knee replacement surgery), patients often have lingering pain and dysfunction. Recent studies have raised concerns that preoperative mental health may negatively affect outcomes after TKA. The primary aim of this study from Melnic et al. investigates the relationship between patient-reported mental health and postoperative physical function following TKA. The study found that poor mental health should not be a contraindication for performing TKA. For patients with the lowest mental health scores, physicians should account for the possibility that physical function scores may deteriorate a year after surgery. Tighter follow-up guidelines, more frequent physical therapy visits, or treatment for mental health issues may be considered to counter such deterioration.
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Content ArticleThe rise in opioid overdoses warrants a review of the symptoms of akathisia writes Russell Copelan.
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Cultural activities linked to lower mortality
Becky T posted an article in Older people
This editorial, published in the BMJ, comments on the 2019 paper by Daisy Fancourt examining how receptive arts engagement could have a protective association with longevity in older adults. -
Content ArticleThis article, published in the BMJ, looks at a study exploring associations between different frequencies of arts engagement and mortality over a 14 year follow-up period. It concludes that receptive arts engagement could have a protective association with longevity in older adults.
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Content ArticleThis article, published in the BMJ, looks at the declining mental health of staff in ICU during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, based on research by King's College London in 2020.
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National Health Executive July/August 2021
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Staff safety
This issue of the National Health Executive magazine features a wide range of timely health topics, including; improving employee mental health and ambulance services, prioritising staff wellbeing, equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines, military style mental health support and more. -
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How bad “cognitive ergonomics” can drain doctors’ brainpower
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Culture
This article by Tanya Albert Henry discusses poor “cognitive ergonomics” and how the American Medical Association has studied burnout among doctors and is currently addressing issues causing and fuelling physician burnout—including time constraints, technology and regulations—to better understand and reduce the challenges physicians face. -
Content ArticleThis article describes what to be expect when coming off of antidepressants, withdrawal problems, the importance of safely tapering off medication and the need for extreme care and support for patients coming off prescribed antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
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Prevention of Future Deaths report – Azra Hussain
Mark Hughes posted an article in Coroner reports
Azra Hussain died by suicide while a patient at Mary Seacole House, operated and staffed by Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust. In their report, the Coroner raised patient safety concerns relating to her family being unable to participate in a multidisciplinary team meeting prior to her death due to Covid-19 visiting restrictions. -
Content ArticleThis manuscript provides a comprehensive overview of what healthcare worker support models are available in Canada and internationally. It outlines best practice guidelines, tools and resources that policy makers, accreditation bodies, regulators and healthcare leaders can use to assess the support needs of healthcare workers. The Canadian Peer Support Network is intended as a forum for healthcare organisations seeking guidance in the development of their Peer Support Programs to assist providers who have experienced a patient safety incident. These interventions aim to improve the emotional well-being of healthcare workers and allow them to provide the best and safest care to their patients.
