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Content ArticleThis is a webinar recording produced by the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua). Patient Safety Learning's Helen Hughes, Patient Advocate Kathy Kovacs Burns, ED Consultant, Rob Galloway and Rachael Grimaldi, the creator of Cardmedic join ISQua to discuss communication between healthcare staff and patinets during COVID-19. This webinar focused on finding solutions to the difficulties that arise in communication between healthcare staff and patients, particularly during events like COVID-19 where the use of face masks and shields create a barrier in communication. We also hear from the perspective of the patient – what are the unintended consequences of failures in communication? Rachael Grimaldi the creator of Cardmedic, shared details of this innovative tool that can be used to aid in the communication between patients and their carers during the pandemic. Communication is an extremely important aspect of care and this webinar aims to help both healthcare staff and patients to find a way through the barriers imposed by COVID-19.
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Content ArticleThe UK IPC Guidance has been updated. This takes into account the latest assessment of the scientific evidence, and also the feedback from local providers on the ongoing impact on capacity that IPC measures are having.
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Content ArticleThe Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) is supporting healthcare professionals with the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme in England. Read about how they are helping and the resources available.
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Content ArticleThis report from the American Enterprise Institute provides a road map for navigating through the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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Content ArticleNew Brunswick is the first province in Canada to begin relaxing the restrictions it put in place to control the spread of the novel coronavirus. On 24 April, Premier Blaine Higgs was joined by other political parties in announcing the immediate reduction of safety restrictions. It was an act of cross-party support in response to the COVID-19 pandemic which has seen Higgs invite the fellow party leaders to form an all-party cabinet committee. The decision to relax the restrictions came as New Brunswick experienced a sixth straight day of no new cases. Read their four-step plan.
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When and how should we transition safely into ‘normal work’ in healthcare?
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs
In her latest blog, Claire reflects on the last few months working as a critical care outreach nurse during the pandemic and looks to the future and how we can transition into the new 'normal'. She urges us all to work together to redesign our health and social care services, building a service that meets all our needs.- Posted
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Content ArticleLoosening the lockdown too much now will not do our health, the economy, or people’s livelihoods any good, argue KK Cheng and Wenjie Gong in this article published in The BMJ Opinion.
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Content ArticleKerala is a state in India. The Government of Kerala set up an Expert Committee on Strategy to look at easing lockdown restrictions and has produced the attached report.
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COVID-19 Narrative Seventeen: Routes out of lockdown
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Exit strategies
In this article, Dr David Nabarro and John Atkinson discuss the routes out of the coronavirus lockdown. Quality information is at a premium. Decisions will be based on data about the spread of the virus disaggregated by locality. Numbers of people becoming infected will need to be factored into decisions. The goal is to understand the extent of transmission and whether the rate of increase in people infected is starting to reduce. The sequence for easing a lockdown will vary from place to place. Decision-makers will be considering multiple factors when deciding how best to do this. Here they explore the questions decision-makers will be asking and indicate some of the factors they might consider. -
Content ArticleThe impact of COVID-19 on communities of colour in the US is dramatically and disproportionately affecting African-Americans most of all. The reasons are complex, with underlying health conditions (e.g., hypertension, diabetes) acting as one contributing factor. Yet, these health problems, public health experts say, largely reflect the history and ongoing realities of racism in the US that have created barriers to accessing quality health care and the conditions that can lead to better health.
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Content ArticleThe impact of the virus that causes COVID-19 could hardly be more disparate. While billions are stuck at home and restricted by social-distancing guidelines, millions of people must still put themselves and their families at risk by continuing to go to work. Millions are coping with the requirement of effectively working from home, but millions more have lost their jobs and don’t know how they will pay for housing or food. And for those who contract the virus, its effects span from nothing at all to death. Derek Feeley discusses these inequities in an article for the Institute of Healthcare Improvement.
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Content ArticleCarmel is a staff nurse on a trauma and orthopaedic ward in Liverpool. She’s also an RCN steward and chair of her RCN branch. Since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold she’s been recording an audio diary of how it’s had an impact on her personal and professional life. Here you can listen to the full audio diary in three chapters or read the highlights.
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Content ArticleNadia Whittome, an MP, went back to work in social care when the pandemic struck but was dismissed when she spoke out about the lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) faced by workers on the frontline. She recounts her experience in a blog to the Guardian.
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Content ArticleThe government's plan to rebuild the UK for a world with COVID-19. Inevitably, parts of this plan will adapt as we learn more about the virus. The government will set up ‘dedicated team’ to look for innovative ways for the NHS to continue treating people for coronavirus, while also providing care for non-covid health issues. It outlines a phased recovery approach and the roadmap to lift restrictions step by step.
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Content ArticleFor the next few months this series of BMJ podcasts, Talk Evidence, is going to focus on the coronavirus pandemic. There is an enormous amount of uncertainty about the disease, what the symptoms are, fatality rate, treatment options, things we shouldn't be doing. Talk Evidence is going to try to get away from the headlines and talk about what we need to know, to hopefully give listeners some insight into these issues.
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Frontline stories: caring for non-COVID patients (May 2020)
Claire Cox posted an article in Coronavirus (COVID-19)
As the pandemic plays out, hospitals are reconfigured to increase critical care capacity, outpatient clinics become virtual, and elective procedures delayed. How are these affecting care for those who are in hospital but don't have COVID-19? In this podcast, Matt Morgan,honorary senior research fellow at Cardiff University, consultant in intensive care medicine and Partha Kar, consultant in diabetes and endocrinology in Portsmouth, join us to discuss how their working week is changing. -
Content ArticleThe Health and Social Care Select Committee is currently holding an Inquiry into Delivering Core NHS and Care Services during the Pandemic and Beyond. It’s stated aim is to ‘give focus to these upcoming strategic challenges, and give those working in the NHS and care sectors an opportunity to set out what help they will need from Government in meeting them’ [1]. This is a submission to the Inquiry by Patient Safety Learning.
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Content Article"Some weeks ago my main worries were around my GCSEs. Now I hear every day about deaths from COVID-19." Teenager Zoya Aziz's parents are both doctors. In this blog in the Guardian, she gives a frank account of her life at the moment and her fears.
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Content ArticleCharts comparing COVID-19 deaths across countries are appearing daily in our newsfeeds. Done well, these international comparisons can help us to understand how different national strategies and policies have affected the spread and severity of COVID-19 outbreaks. But sometimes what is presented in these neat charts is not quite as straightforward as it seems, and can draw misleading conclusions. Excess deaths is a better measure than COVID-19 deaths of the pandemic’s total mortality. It measures the additional deaths in a given time period compared to the number usually expected, and does not depend on how COVID-19 deaths are recorded. This report, written by Holly Krelle, Claudia Barclay and Charles Tallack, summarises some of the ways of comparing countries to help use make sense of data on deaths.
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Content ArticleThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected some sections of the population more than others, and there are growing concerns that the UK’s minority ethnic groups are being disproportionately affected. Following evidence that minority groups are over-represented in hospitalisations and deaths from the virus, Public Health England has launched an inquiry into the issue. In the short term, ethnic inequalities are likely to manifest from the COVID-19 crisis in two main ways: through exposure to infection and health risks, including mortality; through exposure to loss of income. This report brings together evidence on the unequal health and economic impacts of COVID-19 on people in minority ethnic groups in the UK, presenting information on risk factors for each of the largest minority ethnic groups in England and Wales: white other, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, black African and black Caribbean. The analysis focuses on a limited but crucial set of risk factors in terms of both infection risk and economic vulnerability in the short term.
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Content ArticleThe Health and Social Care Select Committee is currently holding an Inquiry into Delivering Core NHS and Care Services during the Pandemic and Beyond. It’s stated aim is to ‘give focus to these upcoming strategic challenges, and give those working in the NHS and care sectors an opportunity to set out what help they will need from Government in meeting them’[1]. In its call for evidence the Inquiry has specifically identified ‘meeting the needs of rapidly discharged hospital patients with a higher level of complexity’ as one of the issues it will cover [2]. This is a joint submission (see attachment) to the Inquiry by Patient Safety Learning and CECOPS which is focused on this specific issue.
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Content ArticleThis article in BMJ Opinion looks at the positive ways of working that emerged from the COVID-19 crisis and how these can be taken retained for a better future for staff and patients.
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Content ArticleOn Thursday 28 April, Q’s Organisational Resilience & Safety-II group organised a special zoom session to explore how practice is changing in the light of our COVID-19 response. Follow a virtual meeting discussing Safety-II in action during COVID-19, hosts Simon Gill, Suzette Woodward and Paul Stretton share a summary of insights from the session.
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Teamworking in an Acute Medical Unit during the COVID pandemic
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
Calum McGregor shares with the Q Community practical tips and tools to help with team-working and staff wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Calum highlights some principles and examples which have helped with team-working in his Acute Medical Unit recently and in the past. -
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Working as a hospital cleaner during coronavirus
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
A blog published in the Metro from a London hospital cleaner on how he is trying to keep himself safe during the coronavirus. "There are always fears you're going to get coronavirus but I try not to overthink it too much".
