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Content ArticleNew research by the Health Foundation shows that the amount of hospital care received by those living in care homes in England rapidly declined in the first three months of the pandemic in 2020 and was substantially lower than in the same period in 2019. The research, which is due to be peer reviewed, provides the first comprehensive and national analysis of all hospital care provided to care home residents during the first wave of the pandemic. It appears to substantiate concerns that care home residents (including those in nursing homes and residential care) may have faced barriers to accessing hospital treatment as the NHS rapidly reorganised to free up hospital capacity to care for critically ill COVID-19 patients.
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Content ArticleThis leaflet offers guidance for workers from Occupational Health Professionals on how to manage getting back to work after COVID-19 infection and Long COVID.
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Preventing COVID-19 infections in care homes
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Guidance
Government guidance on the changes to care home visits. -
Content ArticleInfographic for patients from the International Society of Pharmacovigilance (ISoP) on vaccine safety. This infographic is already available in Italian, Arabic and Spanish. If translation is required, please email: administration@isoponline.org
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Content ArticleHealthcare workers are among the heroes of the pandemic. One year in, many of us are experiencing stress, fatigue, and grief. But this can pale in comparison to the toll faced by those caring for the sick and dying on a daily basis. On the latest episode of The Dose, we listen to the stories of one group of frontline health workers: nurses. Often dealing with inadequate PPE and staff shortages, nurses are putting their own lives at risk — and many are experiencing burnout and exhaustion. In this podcast, guest, Mary Wakefield, takes us on a journey from rural hospitals to clinics in underserved areas, all through the eyes of nurses.
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Content ArticleOn Thursday 18 March, the G20 Health and Development Partnership in collaboration with RLDatix held an Online Panel Discussion for the launch of the International Patient Safety Report: ‘The Overlooked Pandemic – How to Transform Patient Safety and Save Healthcare Systems’.
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Content ArticleTo safeguard patient safety and the wellbeing of healthcare staff, a realistic approach to tackling the backlog of non-COVID care is needed. NHS and public health services have been running ‘hot’ for a prolonged period of time and an overstretched and exhausted workforce must now be given time to rest and recuperate as they meet the challenges ahead. If staff are being pushed too hard to restore routine care in an unrealistic timeframe and without suitable resources, the likelihood is that we will see a workforce squeeze due to a combination of increasingly high staff absence rates and staff reducing their hours or leaving the workforce altogether. This would make it harder for health services to get back on track and provide timely and safe care to patients who need it.
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Content ArticleAt the recent Future of Hospitals event from Health Plus Care Online, Helen Hughes (CEO, Patient Safety Learning) Jenny Davidson (Director of Governance, King Edward VII’s Hospital) and Natasha Swinscoe (CEO, West of England AHSN) discuss some of the key current patient safety issues, challenges, and opportunities in the context the pandemic and beyond. They explore how the healthcare system has responded to COVID-19, reflecting on emerging innovations and new patient safety challenges. They consider the long-term impact of the pandemic on patient safety and on non-COVID-19 care and support.
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Content ArticleCQC review of ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ decisions during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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Content ArticleThis report brings together an elected group of experts from across international organisations, G20 Governments, the global health community and civil society to address the challenges that patients and health workers have faced and are currently facing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. It demonstrates how the safety of patients and health workers is inexorably linked to all global health challenges, including infectious and non-communicable diseases.
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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 ArticleA toolkit for healthcare staff has been published by the National Tracheostomy Safety Project (NTSP) in collaboration with the AHSN Network and the National Patient Safety Improvement Programmes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to support healthcare staff who are looking after patients with tracheostomies. The number of patients requiring relatively prolonged ventilatory support in intensive care units due to COVID-19 has led to increased numbers of patients requiring tracheostomies, which are used to help wean some patients from respiratory support. The toolkit provides information, practical resources and links to useful online training videos and websites. Primarily the toolkit is for hospital staff. However, much of the material is also applicable to primary and community care settings.
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Safe Steps technology
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Community care
Safe Steps Ltd creates digital web applications for UK care homes, local authorities and NHS trusts to help reduce falls for older people and residents. -
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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Content ArticleAn organisational culture that seeks to assign blame when things go wrong makes patient harm more likely to happen again. At the recent Future of Hospitals event from Health Plus Care Online, Helen Hughes, Patient Safety Learning's CEO, speaks with Dr Duncan Bootland, Medical Director at Air Ambulance Kent Surrey Sussex (AAKSS), who was recently rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission across all five of its inspection key lines of enquiry. In this recording of the session, Helen and Duncan talk about the safety culture synergy of healthcare and aviation and how behaviour impacts on safety, considering the values-based approach being championed by AAKSS.
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Human factors for emergency response and critical care
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Techniques
In this blog post, Liv System’s Nigel Scard talks with Courtney Grant, a Senior Human Factors engineer with Transport for London (TfL). Nigel and Courtney worked together for a number of years at TfL on a number of station and line upgrade projects. A few years ago, Courtney applied his Human Factors and research skills with great tenacity, to a serious healthcare related incident which impacted him personally. This resulted in an important, lifesaving change to ambulance service procedures. In this interview, Courtney describes this in detail and also describes his recent work in supporting the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) in supporting the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. -
Content ArticleThis report from the Tony Blair Institute looks at progress made in they released a report in October 2020 which set out a series of recommendations on how the government should respond to Long COVID. These recommendations covered: addressing the need for further research on Long COVID launching an awareness campaign improving diagnosis of Long COVID putting in place specialist support for sufferers using the COVID Symptom Study data to screen for those likely to develop Long COVID. This latest report, A long-term plan for Long Covid, includes: more detail on the recommendations made an update on what has happened in each area where appropriate, what more could be done.
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Content ArticleThe pandemic has impacted on all aspects of NHS care, with elective and diagnostic activities among those services that have been disrupted. This has led to a considerable backlog of people waiting for NHS treatment. This briefing, from the NHS Confederation, explores what lies ahead for the health service and patients, based on their modelling of referral-to-treatment waiting trajectories in 2021. It offers an outline policy framework, drawn up by their members, for starting to reduce waiting lists in an effective, equitable and efficient way.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic provides a stark reminder of the importance of health worker safety. Inadequate personal protection equipment (PPE) has been a problem in many settings and there have been too many examples of health workers becoming infected and dying from COVID-19.The harsh consequences of inequalities have also been laid bare by the pandemic. In countries such as the UK and USA, a disproportionate number of infections and COVID-19 deaths have occurred among Black and ethnic minority communities and people in the lowest socioeconomic groups. But what the COVID-19 pandemic has also made clear is how dependent patient safety is on health worker safety. It is crucial to highlight that there can be no patient safety without health worker safety. As in previous outbreaks of Ebola virus disease, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and severe acute respiratory syndrome, only when health workers are safe can they keep patients safe and provide health systems with stability and resilience.
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Inside a mass vaccination centre
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Louise Cahill is clinical coordinator of a COVID-19 vaccination centre in Newport, Wales. She talks to RCN magazines about an average day and what it means to be involved in the historic immunisation programme. At the end of the article there are 10 tips for nurses talking about vaccinations to patients. -
Content ArticleThis World Health Organization (WHO) policy brief highlights areas where policy-makers can take action to meet the challenge of post-Covid conditions based on what is currently known. It addresses the need for multidisciplinary, multispecialty approaches to assessment and management; development of new care pathways and contextually appropriate guidelines for health professionals; and the creation of appropriate services, including rehabilitation and online support tools.
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UCLPartners proactive care programme
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Exit strategies
UCLPartners have developed a series of proactive care frameworks to restore routine care by prioritising patients at highest risk of deterioration, with pathways that mobilise the wider workforce and digital/tech, to optimise remote care and self-care, while reducing GP workload. The frameworks include: atrial fibrillation high blood pressure high cholesterol type 2 diabetes asthma COPD. The frameworks are being implemented by GPs across the country, helping practices to identify who needs priority care, and those whose care can safely be delayed. Find out more by following the link below. -
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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Content ArticleThe number of intrapartum stillbirths referred to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) between April and the end of June 2020 increased compared to the same time in the previous year. The data initiated a HSIB national learning report, which explores the findings from their maternity investigations during this time. They investigated intrapartum (labour) stillbirths after 37 weeks, where a baby was thought to be alive at the start of labour and was born with no signs of life.
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Content ArticleCOVID-19 continues to have a severe effect on planned surgery in the UK, and dealing with the resulting backlog is a critical concern for the NHS. In this BMJ Editorial, Andrew Carr and colleagues look at why the waiting times have increased so much and what can be done.
