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Content ArticlePatient diaries have often been used in the adult intensive care setting. This paper explores the use of diaries with the paediatric population and how this can enhance care and rehabilitation post critical care stay.
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Content ArticleThrough speaking with Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Members, child health workers and reviewing existing resources, it was identified that there was a lack of practical 'how to' materials to support professionals in delivering face to face sessions with children, young people and families. The impact was two-fold. Some professionals felt they didn’t have the confidence or skills to involve children, young people or families and ensure they had a voice. In addition, young patients and their families were not consistently involved in providing feedback on services, in identifying gaps, reviewing service deliverables and being involved collaboratively with professionals to develop and test solutions. Ultimately it provides a missed opportunity to provide a service-user centred service that meets their needs as well as the potential for reducing long term disengagement with treatment plans. This would inevitably impact on patient safety. By having a service that actively listens and involves the service users strategically, is fit for purpose, meets the needs of the patient, family and professional and has shared ownership in developing the best service possible, services can become more effective and efficient.
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Content ArticleEffective teamwork is critical to successful outcomes in pediatric cardiac surgery. Unfortunately, lapses in professional performance and conduct by those who treat paediatric cardiac patients pose threats to quality and safety. One hallmark of a profession is self regulation. Therefore, healthcare leaders need specific means for identifying and addressing those lapses and indicators of unsafe systems or individuals. This article from Pichert et al. describes an initial “near miss” event involving a paediatric cardiac surgeon. While fictional, the case represents a composite of events involving several paediatric cardiac surgeons who practice at different medical centers throughout the US.
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Content ArticleThe Health Foundation's response to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and Home Office consultation on the Online Harms White Paper.
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Content ArticleChildren and young people in the UK suffer worse health and well-being outcomes than their peers in comparable countries across a range of physical and mental health measures, including overall mortality and deaths from long-term conditions such as epilepsy, asthma and diabetes. While social determinants, in particular relatively high rates of child poverty, account for some of this mortality gap, there is growing evidence that many deaths could be prevented through more accessible and higher quality NHS care.
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Content ArticleCollecting feedback on the care provided to bereaved families and carers following the death of a child or young person is of critical importance to improving bereavement care. Whilst some local healthcare systems have well-established mechanisms and questionnaires for collecting such feedback, many have indicated that they do not and would value guidance in this area.
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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 ArticleEpilepsy12 was announced as the winner of the 2018 Richard Driscoll Memorial Award for outstanding patient involvement in clinical audit at the annual Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) AGM in London. The submission from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) demonstrated Epilepsy12’s overarching goal to improve NHS healthcare services for children and young people with seizures and epilepsy.
