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Hundreds of serious incidents recorded at struggling small trust
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One of the country’s smallest trusts recorded 277 serious incidents over a two-year period, HSJ can reveal. Delays in treatment, missed diagnoses, adverse media coverage and “suboptimal” care were among the hundreds of serious incidents reported at the struggling Isle of Wight Trust from the start of 2018 and up to November 2019. There were also two never events in 2019 — a “wrong site” surgery and an incident in which a patient was mistakenly connected to an air flow meter, rather than an oxygen supply. The trust said the level of incidents did not neccessarily reflect poor care, and did not mean patients had come to harm. The trust was placed in special measures in April 2017 after it was rated “inadequate” by the Care Quality Commission due to “significant” concerns over patient safety. It was upgraded to “requires improvement” in September 2019, but remains in special measures. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 22 January 2020- Posted
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Content ArticleNever events (NEs) are serious preventable patient safety incidents and are a component of formal quality and safety improvement (Q&SI) policies in the UK and elsewhere. A preliminary list of NEs for UK general practice has been developed, but the frequency of these events, or their acceptability to GPs as a Q&SI approach, is currently unknown. This study from Stocks et al., published in the Journal of Patient Safety, aimed to estimate the frequency of 10 NEs occurring within GPs' own practices and the extent to which the NE approach is perceived as acceptable for use.
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The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
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Hi The new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework is due for publication this month for early adopters and as 'introductory guidance' for everyone else: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/about-new-patient-safety-incident-response-framework/ I wondered if there is anyone who is involved in an organisation that is an early adopter who can share what has happened so far and also would be willing to share any local learning as the new framework is implemented? Also, more generally wondered if anyone has any initial comments on the proposals which were mentioned in the NHS patient safety strategy and any things in particular which they think will bring benefit or could represent significant challenges or issues?- Posted
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India: When a ‘never event’ hits a patient
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A young woman was left with a retained foreign object, after surgery in an India hospital. A checklist could have avoided her death. The response from the health officials was: “We have issued a show-cause notice to the staff seeking an explanation. We will initiate departmental action based on their replies and finding of our inquiry.” In the fields of healthcare quality and patient safety, such punitive measures of “naming and shaming” have not worked. T.S. Ravikumar, President, AIIMS Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh, moved back to India eight years ago with the key motive to improve accountability and safety in healthcare delivery. He believes that we have a long way to go in reducing “preventable harm” in hospitals and the health system in general. "We need to move away from fixing blame, to creating a 'blame-free culture' in healthcare, yet, with accountability. This requires both systems design for safe care and human factors engineering for slips and violations". "Providing safe care without harm is a 'team sport', and we need to work as teams and not in silos, with mutual respect and ability to speak up where we observe any deviation or non-compliance with rules, says Ravikumar. Basic quality tools and root-cause analysis for adverse events must become routine. Weekly mortality/morbidity conferences are routine in many countries, but not a routine learning tool in India. He proposes acceleration of the recent initiative of the DGHS of the Government of India to implement a National Patient Safety Framework, and set up an analytical “never events” or sentinel events reporting structure. Read full story Source: The Hindu, 12 January 2020- Posted
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Content ArticleThe aim of this study, published by the British Dentistry Journal, was to identify and develop a candidate 'never event' list for primary care dentistry.
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Content ArticlePatient safety groups consider surgical fires “never events,” incidents that can be avoided entirely with organisational checks and balances. Yet, the Canadian Medical Protective Association (CMPA) has handled dozens of lawsuits and regulatory complaints involving surgical burns in recent years. According to a review of 54 cases of perioperative burns between 2012 and 2016, almost a third involved surgical fires, while the rest involved burns from surgical equipment and chemicals used in surgery. Many patients were left scarred, disfigured and psychologically traumatised. Fifteen percent were severely harmed, with airway damage or full-thickness burns destroying the sensory nerves and all layers of the skin.
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Content ArticleWomen can be left in severe pain and at risk of infection if swabs and tampons used after childbirth are accidentally left in the vagina. That’s the safety risk the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) highlights in this report.
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NHS England: Never Events data
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Data and insight
NHS England publishes provisional Never Events data every month as an update of the cumulative total for the current financial year. The data is published in the following formats: the overall provisional number of Never Events reported in the current financial year to date – these are displayed by month. the provisional number of each type of Never Event reported, with a more detailed breakdown of sub categories of Never Event. the provisional number of each type of Never Event reported by an organisation. -
Content ArticleThis Care Quality Commission (CQC) report focuses on why avoidable harm remains a persistent problem within healthcare.
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