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EventuntilThis is a high-level, international virtual conference focused on patient safety and protecting health workers hosted jointly by Sovereign Sustainability & Development (SSD), RLDatix and the Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC). Registration
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EventuntilUnprecedented levels of change have taken place in the design, service and delivery of health care services in the space of months. COVID-19 has upended our understanding of good, quality care, with many barriers removed instantly and new ideas deemed too radical a couple of months ago, becoming our ‘new normal’. This new reality, with the essential limitations on physical contact has resulted in digital solutions taking centre stage in tackling the pandemic, providing care and ensuring continuity of care for patients across the country. In this event, we will examine the insights our current reality teaches us about how we have delivered digital health in the past. Were some of the barriers safeguards of quality standards and patient safety benchmarks? Are there reasons to be worried about the speed of transformation? And how can we ensure that we keep the good changes and mitigate the negative? Join The King's Fund free online event to discuss: what an inclusive, person-centred digital revolution would look like for the NHS and social care the standards from before the pandemic and what the gains from this rapid transformation should consolidate what this transformation will mean for people and staff on the ground. Further information and registration
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COVID-19: Sharing the international lessons learned
Clive Flashman posted an event in Community Calendar
untilThe Royal Society of Medicine's International COVID-19 Conference brings together thought leaders from around the world to share the key clinical learnings about COVID-19.Session 1: Respiratory effects: critical care and ventilationChair: Dr Charles Powell, Janice and Coleman Rabin Professor of Medicine System Chief, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai> Professor Anita K Simonds, Consultant in Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, RBH NHS Foundation Trust> Dr Richard Oeckler, Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Mayo Clinic, Minnesota> Dr Eva Polverino, Pulmonologist, Vall D’Hebron BarcelonaSession 2: Cardiovascular complications and the role of thrombosisChair: Rt Hon Professor Lord Ajay Kakkar PC, Professor of Surgery, University College London> Professor Barbara Casadei, President, European Society of Cardiology> Professor K Srinath Reddy, President, Public Health Foundation of India> Professor Samuel Goldhaber, Associate Chief and Clinical Director, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Harvard Medical SchoolSession 3: Impacts on the brain and the nervous systemsChair: Professor Sir Simon Wessely, President, Royal Society of Medicine> Dr Hadi Manji, Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer, National Hospital for Neurology> Dr Andrew Russman, Medical Director, Comprehensive Stroke Center, Cleveland Clinic> Professor Emily Holmes, Distinguished Professor, Uppsala UniversitySession 4: Looking forwardChair: Professor Roger Kirby, President-elect, Royal Society of Medicine> Dr Andrew Badley, Professor and Chair of Molecular Medicine, Chair of the Mayo Clinic COVID research task force, Mayo Clinic> Professor Robin Shattock, Professor of Mucosal Infection and Immunity, Imperial College London> Professor Sian Griffiths, Chair, Global Health Committee and Associate Non-Executive member, Board of Public Health England> Dr Monica Musenero, Assistant Commissioner, Epidemiology and Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Uganda Book here -
EventuntilThe Health Foundation is exploring the pandemic’s implications for health and health inequalities. In this webinar, we share our learning so far, focusing on groups of people who have been particularly affected including young people and Black and minority ethnic groups. We’ll explore what the economic impact of the pandemic means for the wider determinants of health. And, as we move towards post-COVID-19 recovery, we’ll look at what's needed to address health inequalities and to create the conditions for everyone to live a healthy life. Register
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EventuntilThe number one focus in the world right now is health care and the critical need to bring greater efficiency to treating patients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, vast amounts of information are rapidly cross-crossing the globe. Governments, health systems, and research communities in the European region are looking to learn as much as possible from each other, as quickly as possible, about the nature of COVID-19 and the most effective interventions for preventing and treating it. We cannot afford to ignore the clear signs pointing to a new future of increased care needs, labour shortages, and operational strain. From COVID-19 to general routine care, we must act now to ensure that no patient waits for the care they need. For health care professionals looking to structure their leadership plans around lessons learned in the field comes the 'Hospital Flow in the UK: During and Beyond COVID-19'. In this online course from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), health care leaders address challenges and share successes, best practices, and strategies to effectively advance the long-term goal of improving community health in a post-COVID world. Experts will discuss noteworthy global challenges and responses to COVID-19, specifically focusing on efforts in the United Kingdom (UK) to monitor and quickly improve treatment for patients across the care continuum. Further information and registration
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Knowledge Xchange learning labs
Patient Safety Learning posted an event in Community Calendar
This series of weekly open access knowledge learning lab sessions from AQuA have been designed to build a conversation and support you in your COVID-19 response. The topics are built around the four AQuA themes this year, where AQuA has significant expertise, learning and interest. The sessions will provide the opportunity for you to learn about the latest thinking and the bespoke tools that have been co-developed by AQuA and our members. Register -
Content ArticleDr Donna Prosser, Chief Clinical Officer at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, interviews Robyn Begley, Chief Executive Officer, American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL), and Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, AHA, around her most recent discoveries in the COVID-19 pandemic. The team conducted a study with over 1,800 participants, ranging from nursing staff to hospital administrators, on the effects of COVID-19 and the challenges and fallbacks that occurred during three periods of the pandemic. After discussion of results, recommendations are proposed for supporting hospitals and healthcare workers.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Patient Safety Learning reflects on the recent steps taken by the healthcare system in the UK to increase provision and support for people living with Long COVID. It then goes on to consider the importance of engagement and information sharing with patients, outlining suggestions where Patient Safety Learning feel the current NHS approach could be improved.
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Content ArticleThe Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a new report on lessons learned from the pandemic to support the future of digital change in health and care. Following a consultation process with 100 of its members, PRSB has published the report examining the digital transformation of services during the pandemic and it recommends how the system can use the lessons in the future. The Digital Health and Care and COVID-19 report recommendations include building on the enthusiasm for digital but reviewing and evaluating safety implications, particularly for remote and virtual consultation where both clinical risk and patient access need to be addressed. The report also includes a focus on quality in practice, including the use of apps and other digital technologies.
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Content ArticleAs with all aspects of the NHS, a number of changes have been enacted in the operation of maternity services as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many of these changes are important and justifiable in order to protect the safety of pregnant people, maternity staff and newborns, it is vital that any (incidental) adverse implications to these policies be addressed. This blog, published by the BMJ, examines one such change; the policy which has been implemented by many NHS Trusts which provides that pregnant persons will only be admitted to the labour ward once labour has been “confirmed as established”.
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Content ArticleNearly a year into the global coronavirus pandemic, scientists, doctors and patients are beginning to unlock a puzzling phenomenon: For many patients, including young ones who never required hospitalisation, COVID-19 has a devastating second act. Many are dealing with symptoms weeks or months after they were expected to recover, often with puzzling new complications that can affect the entire body—severe fatigue, cognitive issues and memory lapses, digestive problems, erratic heart rates, headaches, dizziness, fluctuating blood pressure, even hair loss. What is surprising to doctors is that many such cases involve people whose original cases weren’t the most serious, undermining the assumption that patients with mild COVID-19 recover within two weeks. Doctors call the condition “post-acute Covid” or “chronic Covid,” and sufferers often refer to themselves as “long haulers” or “long-Covid” patients. “Usually, the patients with bad disease are most likely to have persistent symptoms, but Covid doesn’t work like that,” said Trisha Greenhalgh, professor of primary care at the University of Oxford and the lead author of an August BMJ study that was among the first to define chronic Covid patients as those with symptoms lasting more than 12 weeks and spanning multiple organ systems. Other viral outbreaks, including the original SARS, MERS, Ebola, H1N1 and the Spanish flu, have been associated with long-term symptoms. Scientists reported that some patients experienced fatigue, sleep problems and joint and muscle pain long after their bodies cleared a virus, according to a recent review chronicling the long-term effects of viral infections. What differentiates COVID-19 is the far-reaching nature of its effects. While it starts in the lungs, it often affects many other parts of the body, including the heart, kidneys and the digestive and nervous systems, doctors said. “I haven’t really seen any other illness that affects so many different organ systems in as many different ways as Covid does,” said Zijian Chen, medical director for Mount Sinai Health System’s Center for Post-Covid Care. Read the full article in the Wall Street Journal.
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Content ArticleWhen the COVID-19 pandemic began, initial descriptions of the symptomology focused on the clinical presentations of patients in the acute, inpatient setting. In the months since, information on how patients with mild disease present has become available along with information on the fairly common occurrence of asymptomatic disease. More recently, data have emerged that some patients continue to experience symptoms related to COVID-19 after the acute phase of infection. There is currently no clearly delineated consensus definition for the condition: terminology has included “long COVID,” “post-COVID syndrome” and “post-acute COVID-19 syndrome". Among the lay public, the phrase “long haulers” is also being used. Here the COVID-19 Real-Time Learning Network review the current literature on post-acute symptoms in patients with COVID-19, using the term “post-acute COVID-19 syndrome".
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Reflections of a COVID-19 Long Hauler (11 November 2020)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
Jeffrey Siegelman awoke on a Monday morning with a headache. Fever followed, and the next morning could taste nothing. Now, after more than 3 months of living with COVID-19 and the fatigue that has kept him couch-bound, Jeffrey reflects on what it means to be a patient, how an illness ripples through family and community, and how he will use this experience to be a better physician. Here is what he has learned. -
Content ArticleCOVID-NMA is an international research initiative supported by the WHO and Cochrane. It provides a living mapping of COVID-19 trials available through interactive data visualisations. COVID-NMA also conductis living evidence synthesis on preventive interventions, treatments and vaccines for COVID-19 to assist decision makers.
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Content Article"When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die." Kamran Abbasi believes politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible, as Abbasi explores in this BMJ Editorial.
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Content ArticleNew analysis by the Health Foundation shows there were 4.7 million fewer people referred for routine hospital care – for things like hip, knee and cataract surgery – between January and August 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, representing a potential hidden backlog of unmet care needs. The research highlights the scale of the challenge facing the NHS as it looks to resume services following the disruption caused by the first wave of COVID-19. The number of patients in hospital with COVID-19 is growing as we head into winter, a time when the NHS always experiences greater pressures from flu and other seasonal illnesses. If the virus is not controlled and emergency pressures surge, even more routine treatment will need to be postponed which will only add to the challenge of recovering from the pandemic.
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Content ArticleThis report from the Skills for Health reveals the extensive mental and physical health impact on the NHS, and health and care professionals across the UK, as a result of working and living through COVID-19. It also identifies organisational priorities for recovery, both as the country enters the next phase of the pandemic and for the longer term.
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Content ArticlePatients from ethnic minority groups are disproportionately affected by Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Sze et al. performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to explore the relationship between ethnicity and clinical outcomes in COVID-19. They found that individuals of Black and Asian ethnicity are at increased risk of COVID-19 infection compared to White individuals; Asians may be at higher risk of ITU admission and death. These findings are of critical public health importance in informing interventions to reduce morbidity and mortality amongst ethnic minority groups.
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Content ArticleThe Royal College of General Practitioners has put together useful resources for GPs during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Content ArticleThe Royal College of General Practitioners have put together guidance for those working in primary care.
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Content ArticleLecture presentation slides from Professor Carl Philpot, University of East Anglia, on losing your sense of smell with coronavirus.
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Content ArticleFifth Sense is a UK charity that supports people affected by smell and taste disorders across the world and provides direct support, advice, and a signpost to potential diagnosis and treatment to people affected by such conditions. They regularly update their repository of information about smell/taste loss and COVID-19. It contains articles, interviews and video presentations to keep those affected by the virus and experiencing smell and taste loss informed with the latest news and research.
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Content ArticleThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is developing the COVID-19 guideline: management of the long-term effects of COVID-19 and has published the final scoping document and associated project papers. The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has produced a summary and included some top tips to aid the care of your patients whilst waiting for the national guidance to be produced.
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Content ArticleThis comprehensive guide from the Social Care Institute of Excellence, discusses the lessons learned from hospital discharge and avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. It highlights challenges faced and good practice to prevent unnecessary admissions going forward.
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Content ArticleThe coronavirus pandemic has magnified a myriad of challenges in the healthcare sector. Whilst there is no magic cure, a change in culture can deliver seemingly miraculous benefits including reducing the effects of staff burnout, delivering a higher quality of care and increasing productivity. It is well within the remit of leaders, who can use their power, to influence workplace culture and drive positive change from within. Phil Taylor of RLDatix explores this further in his blog.
