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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning held it's second annual conference on Wednesday 2 October, launching the hub and issuing a call for action on patient safety; with inspiring and practical presentations on issues that can be addressed and ways to address them. This blog summarises the themes of the conference and the presentations and discussions that took place. Read more
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Content ArticleThe Patient Experience Journal (PXJ) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published in association with The Beryl Institute. PXJ is committed to disseminating rigorous knowledge and expanding the global conversation on evidence and innovation on patient experience. Grounded in their core principles, PXJ engages all perspectives, with a strong commitment to patients included.
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Content ArticleInpatients could play an important role in identifying, preventing and reporting problems in the quality and safety of their care. To support them effectively in that role, informatics solutions must align with their experiences. The authors of this research paper published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association set out to understand how inpatients experience undesirable events and to surface opportunities for those informatics solutions.
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MHRA: The Yellow Card Scheme
Claire Cox posted an article in Adverse interactions
The Yellow Card Scheme helps the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) monitor the safety of all healthcare products in the UK to ensure they are acceptably safe for patients and those who use them. On the Yellow Card Scheme website you can report a suspected incident or problem. -
Content ArticleImproving patient experience is not simple. As well as effective leadership and a receptive culture, trusts need a wholesystems approach to collecting, analysing, using and learning from patient feedback for quality improvement. Without such an approach it is almost impossible to track, measure and drive quality improvement. NHS Improvements framework brings together the characteristics of trusts that consistently improve patient experience and enables them to carry out an organisational diagnostic to establish how far patient experience is embedded in its leadership, culture and its operational processes.
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Content ArticlePatient reporting and action for a safe environment (PRASE) is system for collecting patient feedback about how safe they feel whilst in hospital. It is designed to help staff identify things that are working well, and areas needing improvement. Feedback is collected using a patient safety questionnaire and a reporting tool. With the help of PRASE hospital volunteers, patient feedback is collected. Once enough information has been collected, a ward report is produced and guidance is provided to help make action plans and monitor their successes.
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Content ArticleThis report aims to build a better understanding of the role of patient and public involvement (PPI) in research, helping ensure meaningful involvement that has tangible impacts and to mitigate against undesired consequences.
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Content ArticleThe King's Fund commissioned this research project from Picker Institute Europe to examine the role of patient engagement and involvement in the quality and development of general practice services.
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Content ArticlePatient engagement improves patient, organisation and health system outcomes, but most research is based on primary care. The primary purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of published research that evaluated patient engagement in hospital health service improvement.
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Content ArticleMeet Patient Safety Learning's Chief Executive, Helen Hughes. In this video she discusses her passion for patient safety, some of Patient Safety Learning's six foundations for a patient-safe future, as detailed in our latest report, A Blueprint for Action, and she explains why she's excited about the hub. View video (16 minutes)
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Content ArticlePatient-centeredness is central to healthcare. Hospitals should address patients’ unique needs to improve safety and quality. Patient engagement in healthcare, which may help prevent adverse events, can be approached as an independent patient safety practice (PSP) or as part of a multifactorial PSP. This systematic review by Berger et al., published in BMJ Quality & Safety, examines how interventions encouraging this engagement have been implemented in controlled trials. It found that while patient engagement in safety is appealing, there is insufficient high-quality evidence informing real-world implementation. Further work is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on patient and family engagement and clarify the added benefit of incorporating engagement in multifaceted approaches to improve patient safety endpoints. In addition, strategies to assess and overcome barriers to patients’ willingness to actively engage in their care should be investigated.
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Content ArticleGood Hydration! is a quality improvement initiative designed by care homes for care homes to reduce urinary tract infections (UTIs) through structured drinks rounds. Developed in partnership with East Berkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, it is now delivering sustained improvements and spreading further afield. Oxford Academic Health Science Network has produced a range of useful resources for care homes to use.
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Using online patient feedback to improve care
Claire Cox posted an article in How to engage for patient safety
A guide from The Point of Care Foundation supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to understand how to use online patient feedback to improve quality in healthcare. -
Content ArticleThis reflection published in the International Journal of Integrated Care provides a perspective on front-line involvement of a patient and caregiver in a research project focused on integrated care.
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Content ArticleThe Public Involvement in Research Standards produced here aim to provide people with clear, concise benchmarks for effective public involvement alongside indicators against which improvement can be monitored. They are intended to encourage approaches and behaviours which will support this: flexibility; partnership and collaboration; a learning culture; the sharing of good practice; effective communications. The standards are the work of a Public Involvement Standards Development Partnership which brings together representatives including public contributors from the Chief Scientist Office (Scotland), Health and Care Research Wales, the Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland) and the National Institute for Health Research (England).
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Content ArticleThis paper from Kok et al in the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy explores how Dutch hospitals organise patient or family engagement in incident investigations, maps out incident investigators’ experiences of involving patients or their families in incident investigations and identifies the challenges encountered.
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Content ArticleThere have been repeated calls to better involve patients and the public and to place them at the centre of healthcare. In a paper published in BMJ Quality and Safety, Josephine Ocloo and Rachel Matthews explore the barriers, challenges and opportunities in involving patients in healthcare.
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Content ArticleA Nesta blog from Bella Starling discusses whose hands is the power in health research held? Researchers, or those people who should ultimately benefit from it?
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Content ArticleThe Center for the Advancement of Team Science, Analytics, and Systems Thinking, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, have created a model to conceptualise engagement capacity drawing upon social cognitive theory, developed in the 1960s and 1970s by Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura to explain the various ways that people acquire behaviours. This theoretical framework is widely used specifically to study how people acquire their health habits. The theory includes the concept of 'reciprocal determinism': the idea that there is a dynamic relationship between the person, their environment, and their behaviours, in which they continually influence each other and are influenced by each other. A focus on capacity and context can help providers and health care organisations identify the dimension(s) of engagement that create the greatest barriers for both individual patients and their patient population as a whole, and allocate their resources accordingly.
