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Content ArticleThe Health Foundation policy tracker provides a description and timeline of national policy and health system responses to COVID-19 in England in 2020. The full tracker includes data on what changes have been introduced, when, why, and by whom – as well as how these changes have been communicated by policymakers. We track policy changes in five areas – from health and care system changes to wider social and economic policy.
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Content ArticleThis report to Congress details a strategy to achieve the principal purpose and objective of Operation Warp Speed (OWS): ensuring that every American who wants to receive a COVID-19 vaccine can receive one, by delivering safe and effective vaccine doses to the American people beginning January 2021.
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Content ArticleThe National COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy outlines Ireland’s high-level plan for safe, effective and efficient vaccination of the population, while safeguarding continued provision of health and social care services. The Strategy was prepared by the High-Level Task Force on COVID-19 Vaccination.
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Content ArticleIn mid-December, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorisation (EUA) to both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. Since then, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) has received numerous voluntary reports of COVID-19 vaccine errors or hazards through the ISMP National Vaccine Errors Reporting Program (VERP), the ISMP National Consumer Medication Errors Reporting Program (C-MERP), and via email correspondence from professional colleagues. This article from ISMP highlights a few of the missteps happening across the nation and internationally, from vaccine dilution errors to look-alike product mix-ups. There is much to be gleaned from these reports, as the same types of errors are likely happening globally, and similar risks exist in most settings. They conclude with safe practice recommendations to help prevent these types of errors in your practice setting.
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Content ArticleAn article from McKinsey & Company looking at the risks and challenges of the COVID-19 vaccination rollout. This article considers the elements of this enormous undertaking, the risks that are inherent, and potential means of further accelerating vaccination.
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National Voices: What We Need Now
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This report summarises how National Voices engaged with people who have ongoing health and care needs during the first phase of the pandemic and how this engagement led to a set of statements that describe what people who use health and care services now expect these services to look and feel like.These statements express people’s reasonable expectations of healthcare. Most would see the demand to be listened to and have one’s decisions respected as basic tenets of normal healthcare. The power of these statements lies in the fact that they are truly reflective of what people with significant health and care needs said they needed and wanted. National Voices believe that their simplicity, their self-evident realism and the pragmatism they therefore inspire demand an equally practical and grounded response from system leaders, and everyone tasked with designing and delivering health and care. -
Content ArticleThe Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM) has published guidance for healthcare professionals to assist them in facilitating the return to work of people who are unable to work due to Long-COVID. Follow the link below or download the guidance as a pdf.
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Content ArticleThis report summarises the impacts on babies of COVID-19 and the spring 2020 national lockdown. The report also explores how local systems responded to the challenges presented by COVID-19. It seeks to understand the factors that have shaped the response by services that support babies and their families. Most importantly, the report seeks to ensure that lessons are learnt for the future of service provision for this age group.
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Content ArticleFrontline clinicians working with the National CLEAR Programme for ICU have published ten recommendations that can be adopted in ICU in 48 hours, to help manage the COVID surge. Click on the image or download the attachment as a PDF.
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Content ArticleRegina Hoffman, Executive director of Pennsylvania’s Patient Safety Authority and editor-in-chief of Patient Safety, discusses why we need to shift the focus from "whomever-care" to a "people's care" approach. She hopes after the pandemic that the next chapter brings radical change to how we approach patient safety and says we must start by making patient safety a national priority. This is part of a series of blogs from Regina 'The bigger picture'.
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Content Article'Covid Oximetry @home' describes an enhanced package of care for individuals with confirmed (or suspected) COVID-19 who are at risk for future deterioration. NHS England and Improvement wrote to all CCGs and trusts to encourage the development of local CO@H projects. The 'CO@h' package of care involves the remote monitoring of the patient's condition through providing regular contact with a local health care team who will reassess the individuals symptoms (including oxygen saturation levels). This close monitoring enables the individual to remain at their usual place of residence whilst allowing early signs of deterioration to be identified and escalated quickly and appropriately. This material has been designed primarily for use across the South East AHSN network by colleagues within the Wessex AHSN, Kent Surrey Sussex AHSN and Oxford AHSN regions. Colleagues from regions beyond the South East are also very welcome to make use of this toolkit in setting up their own local approaches to remote monitoring.
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Hidden wounds
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Content ArticleIn this opinion piece for the British Medical Journal, David Oliver, consultant in geriatrics and acute general medicine, highlights the high rates of COVID-19 infection that have been acquired in hospital. David looks at an example in the US where rigid infection control measures have been implemented with success, arguing that more needs to be done to challenge and address these worrying statistics here in the UK.
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Content ArticleIn response to the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, healthcare systems worldwide have stepped up their infection prevention and control efforts in order to reduce the spread of the infection. Behaviours, such as hand hygiene, screening and cohorting of patients, and the appropriate use of antibiotics have long been recommended in surgery, but their implementation has often been patchy. The current crisis presents an opportunity to learn about how to improve infection prevention and control and surveillance (IPCS) behaviours. The improvements made were mainly informal, quick and stemming from the frontline rather than originating from formal organisational structures. This paper from Toccafondi et al. aims to illustrate how adopting a human factors and ergonomics perspective can provide insights into how clinical work systems have been adapted and reconfigured in order to keep patients and staff safe.
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Content ArticleBased on the experiences of hospital trusts that performed well during the early phase of the pandemic, the guidance shares successful innovations and practices which others can utilise and adopt. Drawing on the Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme’s data-driven methodology and the wealth of experience of its national clinical leads, the advice covers infection prevention and control, emergency medicine, critical care, anaesthesia, acute and general medicine, respiratory medicine, diabetes care, and geriatric medicine and community care, as well as looking at cross-cutting themes such as trust leadership and management, research and clinical coding. The guide, Clinical practice guide for improving the management of adult COVID-19 patients in secondary care, is reviewed and endorsed by 12 key professional societies.
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Content ArticleThe global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taken a dramatic toll on virtually all aspects of life, from the economy, to employment, relationships, public health, and personal health. In the United States, more than 200,000 individuals have died of the coronavirus. As of October, hundreds of thousands of Americans are filing unemployment claims each week. For all of us, the pandemic has become a time marked by uncertainty, fear, and grief. According to a survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 40 percent of US adults reported struggling with mental health or substance use issues. Although much of the general population has admitted to feeling more anxious and depressed during the pandemic, those with substance use and mental health issues face unique challenges.
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Content ArticleThis report from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) outlines the most important factors for supporting staff in the wake of safety incidents, against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report reinforces the importance of effective staff support for those suffering high levels of psychological harm, as it has a direct impact on patient care. While focusing on patient safety incidents overall, the report also provides valuable insight that could help organisations develop their own programmes of support for any situation. The report features a first-hand account from a junior doctor which charts the impact that a patient safety incident had on his life and his experiences of support. Excerpts from the story emphasise the importance of creating a ‘normalised’ culture around accessing support.
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Vaccination centres: minimising the risks to vulnerable people
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Content ArticleIt can be confusing to know what to do when your baby or child is unwell during the coronavirus pandemic. The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has developed posters for families living in England, Scotland, Wales (in English and Welsh languages) and Northern Ireland about when and how to get medical help for your child, or for your young baby, or for yourself as a young person.
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Content ArticleIn this joint open letter, the UK’s Chief Nursing Officers write about how they are supporting professionals during the pandemic. They encourage the profession to “speak up” if they feel unsafe at work amid the latest surge of COVID-19. The letter also includes information on: supporting to deliver care helping to strengthen the workforce capacity supporting the roll-out of vaccines support for health and wellbeing.
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Content ArticleA team of scientific experts has joined forces from across the world to help fight the spread of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines. Together they have created a unique online guide, led by the University of Bristol, to arm people with practical tips combined with the very latest information and evidence to talk reliably about the vaccines, constructively challenge associated myths, and allay fears. With the race on to vaccinate as many people as possible soonest in the wake of a more virulent virus strain, they’re appealing to everyone, from doctors to politicians, teachers to journalists and parents to older generations, to understand the facts, follow the guidance, and spread the word.
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Content ArticleWhile individual countries have gained considerable knowledge and experience of COVID-19 management, an international, comparative perspective is lacking, particularly regarding the measures taken by different countries to tackle the pandemic. This paper from Tartaglia et al. elicits the views of health system staff, tapping into their personal expertise on how the pandemic was initially handled.
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Content ArticleInformation for all women of childbearing age, those currently pregnant or breastfeeding on coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination.
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Content ArticleWith the UK's official COVID-19 death toll exceeding 60 000, and data from the Office for National Statistics indicating excess deaths of more than 70 000, the succession of grim milestones in 2020 has shown little sign of abating, despite optimism around COVID-19 vaccination. Every single COVID-19 death is a family devastated by loss. The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice, a group of over 2000 people who have lost a loved one to COVID-19 in the UK, share their stories in this Lancet commentary, and are campaigning for lessons to be learned as quickly as possible to save lives as the pandemic continues and ahead of the wide-scale roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines across the UK. They call for an immediate public inquiry with a rapid review phase.