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Why should health agencies refer to restorative justice?
Claire Cox posted an article in Second victim
‘Victim wellbeing’ is a phrase often linked to restorative justice, but what does that look like in practice? In this article, Greg Smith (restorative justice development manager at Thames Valley Restorative Justice Service (TVRJS)), Diana Batchelor (PhD researcher at Oxford University and independent evaluation researcher for TVRJS) and Becci Seaborne (assistant director for restorative justice at TVRJS) consider why, and how, restorative justice could become a default option for health service providers.- Posted
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Content ArticleStaff at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital, Michigan are adopting a new approach to safety. By picking up near misses, close calls, deviation off protocol and investigating each one via a daily huddle, they are able to enable change system wide.
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Content ArticleDoncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Patient Safety Team won the Patient Safety Learning Award 2019 for Shared learning. In this blog, Cindy Storer describes her experience of the Patient Safety Learning Annual Conference and winning the award.
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Content ArticleIn this video, clinicians from Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital who are involved in the SAFE project talk about how the ‘huddle’ technique – a ten minute free, frank exchange of information between clinical and non-clinical professionals involved in a patient’s care every few hours – is helping them to improve their situation awareness, resolve risks to patient safety more quickly and reduce harm.
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Content ArticleClinician burnout has been well-documented and is at record highs. The same issues that drive burnout also diminish joy in work for the healthcare workforce. Healthcare leaders need to understand what factors are diminishing joy in work, nurture their workforce, and address the issues that drive burnout and sap joy in work. The most joyful, productive, engaged staff feel both physically and psychologically safe, appreciate the meaning and purpose of their work, have some choice and control over their time, experience camaraderie with others at work, and perceive their work life to be fair and equitable. There are proven methods for creating a positive work environment that creates these conditions and ensures the commitment to deliver high-quality care to patients, even in stressful times.
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Content ArticleIn this blog post, Vince discusses the challenges registrants face when something goes wrong, and why employers and regulators should be doing more to reassure professionals that openness is best for everyone.
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Blog: Let today be the start of something new
Claire Cox posted an article in Motivating staff
Motivation and how to use it is a complex science, motivating yourself is hard, motivating others is even harder. When trying to make improvements in the NHS we need to think carefully about how we motivate our staff to bring about change and improve patient outcomes. This blog by Adam Burrell, Improvement Lead for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, discusses staff motivation and incentives.- Posted
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Content Article"It’s time to halt, take a break, and redraw the relationship between patient care and self-care. Self-care isn’t an optional luxury. It must sit at the heart of what we do, to ensure our teams can continue to rise to the challenges of working in the 21st century NHS, to give our patients the best of both ourselves, and the organisation so many of us are proud to be a part of."
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The patient safety leader of the future
Adam Burrell posted an article in Leadership for patient safety
Patient safety made headlines at the recent Patient Safety Learning Conference when Professor Ted Baker (Chief Inspector of Hospital for the CQC) declared that there has been “little progress for NHS patient safety over past 20 years”. One of the interesting discussions at the conference was what do these future directors of patient safety look like? What are the skills and attributes that they will possess? Professor Ted Baker pinpointed three key areas, but what would these look like in practice?- Posted
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Content ArticleDoncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Patient Safety Team's values became a golden thread to improve patient safety by 'Sharing How We Care' – a monthly patient safety newsletter and annual conference.
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Content ArticleThis short film showcases a day in the life of a general practice nurse, including the array of activities and procedures their day may include. The film is especially designed for pre-registration student nurses and those who may wish to transition into general practice from other areas.
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Content ArticleSleep is fundamental to good health. Healthcare professionals receive little teaching on the importance of sleep, particularly with respect to their own health when working night shifts. Knowledge of basic sleep physiology, together with simple strategies to improve core sleep and the ability to cope with working nights, can result in significant improvements both for healthcare professionals and for the patients they care for. This article by Dr Mike Farquhar, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood: Education & Practice, gives practical advice for night shift workers and, generally, how to improve your quality of sleep.
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Content ArticleAs part of its commitment to supporting the third sector, The King’s Fund works in partnership with GSK to run the GSK IMPACT Awards, which provide leadership development and funding for award winners.
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Content ArticleNHS Resolution has published research on the factors which lead patients to consider a claim for compensation when something goes wrong in their healthcare. Undertaken in partnership with The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), the research considered the experience reported by 728 patients who agreed to participate in a survey, including 20 who volunteered for a subsequent in depth telephone interview with the BIT team.
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What is the British Medical Association (BMA)?
Claire Cox posted an article in Workforce and resources
The British Medical Association (BMA) is the trade union and professional body for doctors in the UK.- Posted
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Professor Peter Brennan's top ten tips for making life work better
Claire Cox posted an article in Motivating staff
Professor Brennan gives his ten top tips to improve wellbeing, team working and improved patient safety. Professor Brennan is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and a Consultant Surgeon at Queen Alexandra Hospital Portsmouth.- Posted
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Content ArticleTejal K. Gandhi, Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Chief Clinical and Safety Officer, reflects on the World Health Organization (WHO) challenge to “Speak Up for Patient Safety” and how broadly it applies to improvement work.
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Content ArticleIn 2016, thirteen organisations from health, social care and local government came together to create the Developing People Improving Care framework, an evidence-based national framework to guide action on improvement skill-building, leadership development and talent management for people in NHS-funded roles. One year on, NHS Improvement highlight some of the work taking place, demonstrating the steps people are already taking to ensure systems of compassion, inclusion and improvement are at the core of the health and care system. They also set out plans for the year ahead and some of the steps you can take to learn more about the framework.
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Content ArticleA collection of resources from NHS Improvement to help you analyse, understand and improve the health and well-being of your workforce. Based on NHS Improvements's learning from the Improving Health and Well-being direct support programme, they have developed and collated some resources which will assist analysis of your quantitative and qualitative workforce data to drive and enable development of impactful evidence-based workforce health and well-being interventions.
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Content ArticleProfessor Anne Marie Rafferty, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) President, has been involved in two decades of vital nursing workforce research. She explains in this interview for the RCN how the evidence could help us achieve safe staffing.
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Content ArticleEveryone should be treated with dignity and respect at work. Bullying and harassment is unacceptable and constitutes a violation of human and legal rights that can lead to criminal prosecution and civil law claims. Employers have a duty of care to provide a safe and healthy working environment for their staff, and this is an implied term of every contract of employment. Bullying and harassment undermines physical and mental health, frequently resulting in poor work performance. Possible consequences include: insomnia and inability to relax loss of confidence and self-doubt loss of appetite hypervigilance and excessive double-checking of all actions inability to switch off from work.
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Content ArticleRichard Smith, former BMJ Editor and Chair of the Point of Care Foundation, finds out more about Schwartz rounds in this opinion article published in the BMJ.
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Content ArticleThis report evaluates Schwartz Center Rounds® (rounds) in England. Rounds were introduced into the UK in 2009 to support healthcare staff to deliver compassionate care, something the Francis report (Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry) identified as lacking. Rounds are organisation-wide forums that prompt reflection and discussion of the emotional, social and ethical challenges of healthcare work, with the aim of improving staff well-being and patient care.
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The case for employee engagement in the NHS: three case studies
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
This report by The Point of Care Foundation, looks at staff engagement in three NHS hospital trusts and provides insights into the views of staff and managers.- Posted
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How can After Action Review (AAR) improve patient safety?
Judy Walker posted an article in Good practice
The NHS Long Term Plan highlighted several safety issues that need to be addressed: the fear of blame and retribution which curtails reporting and learning, lack of staff understanding of patient safety matters and workforce issues. This short article summarises what I have learnt about how After Action Review (AAR) can directly address the first two of these and indirectly impact on the third.- Posted
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