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Content ArticleIn an interesting paper by Brazil and colleagues in the July edition of BMJ Quality and Safety, the authors explore the positioning of simulation-based methods within QI programmes, the role of trained simulation experts as part of QI-focused teams and the directions for future scholarly enquiry that supports integration of these fields.
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Content ArticleThe report from The Leapfrog Group analyses eight high-risk procedures to determine which hospitals and surgeons perform enough of them to minimise the risk of patient harm or death, and whether hospitals actively monitor to assure that each surgery is necessary. The report finds that the vast majority of participating hospitals do not meet The Leapfrog Group’s minimum hospital or surgeon volume standards for safety nor do they have adequate policies in place to monitor for appropriateness. Rural hospitals are particularly challenged in meeting the standards. Leapfrog advises "given the variation in patient outcomes between higher-volume and lower-volume hospitals, the importance of patients using Leapfrog results to select a hospital for these high-risk procedures cannot be overstated."
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Content ArticleThe Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM), The King’s Fund and the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) share a commitment to evidence-based approaches to developing leadership and collectively initiated a review of the evidence by a team, including clinicians, managers, psychologists, practitioners and project managers. This document summarises the evidence emerging from that review.
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Don Berwick: Quality improvement in the NHS
Claire Cox posted an article in Quality Improvement
Speaking at The Kings Fund breakfast event on 23 February 2016, Don Berwick gives his views on The King's Fund's report, Improving quality in the NHS, and discusses what the NHS can learn from other countries. -
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Releasing Time to care, The NHS Productive Series (NHS Improvement)
Claire Cox posted an article in Environmental
The successful NHS Productives series, from NHS Improvement, are about ‘the how not the what’ and use a learning by doing approach that builds knowledge and skills to support frontline teams to make real and lasting improvements for themselves. -
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Patient safety and quality - NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group
Claire Cox posted an article in CCGs
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Content ArticleThe Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) have developed a self-assessment tool for multi-professional healthcare teams, irrespective of their background or sector. Individuals, teams and organisations need clarity and support on how to establish and sustain high performing multi-professional healthcare teams. This self-assessment tool offers a simple and accessible measure of team performance to facilitate this process.
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Content ArticleThe Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG) asks what good looks like and looks at the observed behaviours of organisations that apply human factors in their daily work.
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Content ArticleHuman Factors Cast is a podcast that investigates the sciences of psychology, engineering, biomechanics, industrial design, physiology and anthropometry and how it affects our interaction with technology. Hosted by Nick Roome and Blake Arnsdorff.
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Content ArticleChallenges to the status quo present leaders with the opportunity and responsibility to not only respond but to learn and transform the system. This article from Slotkin et al. shares the experience of leaders at a large health system to design an emerging COVID response to effectively innovate to sustain improvement.
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Content ArticleNorth Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has achieved more than double its medicines savings target, delivering the best value for the North Tees and Hartlepool region and the wider NHS. The Trust’s Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation team together in collaboration with the multidisciplinary medical and nursing teams, finance department and commissioners developed several work streams for medicines efficiencies and quality improvement initiatives. Getting best value for medicines is one of the core business priorities for the Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation team, through significant collaboration with the multidisciplinary teams of senior medical, nursing, finance, and wider commissioning teams. The project has significantly benefited the organisation and the wider system, through exceeding the expectation of efficiency target, it has contributed directly to improving the quality of patient care and experience as well as ensuring the financial sustainability of the organisation.
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Content ArticleThis month’s Letter from America looks at perspectives examining collective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic through a systems analysis lens. Letter from America is the latest in a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting new accomplishments in patient safety from the United States.
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Content ArticleThis essay in The New Yorker summarises known weaknesses in US healthcare visible long before COVID-19—and discusses others more specific to the pandemic. The author suggests that efforts to change the system be informed by the COVID-19 experience. The work should not seek to return to the pre-pandemic state but instead aim to making changes based on what was revealed to improve health care delivery overall.
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Content ArticleImagine if hospitals could fly? Would they be safer for patients? Before you say to yourself, what a silly question. Please hear me out… Abdulelah M. Alhawsawi is Director General at the Saudi Patient Safety Center.
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Content ArticleAuthor Hugh MacLeod host's this fourth episode in the ISQua Podcast series. "We do not make stuff in healthcare, we deliver care to people through people. When the relationship patterns between people are connected and healthy quality and patient safety magic happens, when they are not connected nor healthy, things fall through the cracks and patient harm and death occurs."
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Content ArticleHuman factors are of pivotal importance to both patient safety and doctors’ wellbeing, says Peter Brennan and Tista Chakravarty-Gannon in this BMJ Opinion article. In this article they highlight what the General Medical Council (GMC) and other organisations are doing to support doctors to deliver good care for their patients through educational and support programmes, including the GMC’s new Professional Behaviours and Patient Safety Programmes (PBPS) being piloted across the UK. These programmes are designed to help improve doctors’ skills and confidence in addressing unprofessional behaviours. These initiatives should reduce medical error, improve patient safety and professional welfare, as well as enhancing team working.
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National NHS staff survey 2019 results
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Culture
The NHS Staff Survey is one of the largest workforce surveys in the world and has been conducted every year since 2003. It asks NHS staff in England about their experiences of working for their respective NHS organisations. The survey provides essential information to employers and national stakeholders about staff experience across the NHS in England. Participation is mandatory for trusts and voluntary for non-trust organisations (CCGs, CSUs, social enterprises). The survey does not cover primary care staff. The report below provides a concise summary of key national results. Detailed local (organisation-level) results are also available here.- Posted
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Content ArticleEngaging for success: enhancing performance through employee engagement sets out the evidence that only organisations that truly engage and inspire their employees produce world class levels of innovation, productivity and performance. The lessons that flow from that evidence can and should shape the way leaders and managers in both the private and public sectors think about the people who work for them. They should also shape the way employees approach their jobs and careers.
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Data saves lives - a series of animations
Claire Cox posted an article in Data and insight
Understanding Patient Data has produced a series of animations to explain how data saves lives. Following the journeys of patients with cancer, a heart attack, diabetes, dementia and asthma, they show the huge range of ways data is used to improve care, and the safeguards that are in place to protect confidentiality. -
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How does the NHS in England work? An alternative guide (2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Health care
This animation by The Kings fund, presents a whistle-stop tour of how the NHS works in 2017 and how it is changing. -
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NHS: Specialty guides for patient management
Claire Cox posted an article in Guidance
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Content ArticleThis is the YouTube Channel for the UCSF School of Medicine in the USA. Here you are able to listen and watch webinars on the latest 'grand rounds' on COVID-19. These webinars cover: paediatrics shape of the pandemic, digital innovation epidemiology, science & clinical manifestations of COVID-19 research general updates.
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Patient Experience Library: Patient surveys tracker
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Patient engagement
The Patient Experience Library's patient surveys tracker offers one-click access to the key patient experience datasets for every Trust in England. -
Content ArticleThis report by the Health Foundation examines shifts in public attitudes towards health, the NHS and social care caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. It highlights key findings from the first wave of the Health Foundation's new programme of polling research, delivered in partnership with Ipsos, that will track public views on health and social care every six months.
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Content ArticleThe Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA) is the independent body responsible for regulating and inspecting the quality and availability of Health and Social Care services in Northern Ireland. The (RQIA) was commissioned to examine the application and effectiveness of the Procedure for the Reporting and Follow-up of Serious Adverse Incidents in Northern Ireland. The review was conducted by an Expert Review Team established by the RQIA and made five recommendations for implementation.
