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Content ArticleFollowing the publication of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices and Safety (IMMDS) Review in July 2022, the UK Government accepted a recommendation to appoint a Patient Safety Commissioner responsible for promoting safety in the context of the use of medicines and medical devices. At the Health Plus Care conference on the 19 May 2022, Patient Safety Learning's Chief Executive Helen Hughes and Marie Lyon, Chair of the Association for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests, considered the key challenges that will faced by the new Patient Safety Commissioner and the importance of implementing in full the recommendations of the IMMDS Review. See attached their presentation slides.
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Content ArticleEstablished in June 2021, the Patient Safety Management Network (PSMN) is an innovative voluntary network for patient safety managers and professionals. It holds drop-in sessions to talk through issues of importance to patient safety managers, providing information, peer support and safe space for discussion. This network is a vibrant community of interest that is continually growing and developing in support of its members. At the Health Plus Care conference on the 19 May 2022, Patient Safety Learning's Chief Executive Helen Hughes, PSMN Co-Founder Claire Cox and PSMN member Jordan Nichols discussed why the this is needed, what it has achieved so far, its aims for the future and how you can get involved. See attached their presentation slides.
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Research shows that poor handover in hospitals puts patients at risk of severe harm
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Research undertaken by digital health platform, CAREFUL shows that handover in hospitals is the cause of frequent and severe harm to patients.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis document defines the investigation framework in the event of a patient safety Serous Incident (SI) related to NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) delivered or supported services, which affects one or more health body in Wales.
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Content ArticleThe Patients Association's response to the NHS consultation on draft requirements for Patient Safety Specialist roles. See also Patient Safety Learning's response to the consultation.
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Content ArticleHow many of you know the full history of duty of candour in healthcare in the UK? It was Will Powell who, after the tragic death of his son Robbie, brought to light that there was none. Even today we only have an institutional duty of candour in place, leaving clinicians with the right to lie as no specific law exists to prevent this.
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Content ArticleThis document outlines the purpose of Patient Safety Specialists, the key requirements of the role, and how we expect them to work in their own organisation, as well as with local, regional and national partners.
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Content ArticleAction against Medical Accidents (AvMA) provides a list of patients/family members with lived experience of patient safety issues who can speak at events, help with training, or provide consultancy.
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Content ArticleIn the past 15 years, healthcare has focused primarily on building the technical infrastructure for incident reporting systems: online reporting systems, data collection forms, categorisation schemes and analytical tools. These are all important foundations. But this focus on incident data is also the source of many of our current problems with incident reporting: we collect too much and do too little. Learning depends critically on the less visible social processes of inquiry, investigation and improvement that unfold around incidents. Over the next 15 years we must refocus our efforts and develop more sophisticated infrastructures for investigation, learning and sharing, to ensure that safety incidents are routinely transformed into system wide improvements.
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Content ArticleFollowing the news of the appointment of the UK's first harms prevention nurse consultant at Ashford and St Peter's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, we interviewed Sue Harris on her new role.
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NHS Improvement: Patient Safety Specialist
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in NHS Improvement
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy published in July 2019 set an ambition for all NHS staff to have a foundation in patient safety as well committing the NHS to developing experts to lead on patient safety in each trust. The introduction of ‘patient safety specialists’ is a key step in professionalising patient safety in the NHS.- Posted
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Content ArticleA careful planning for a pandemic, like COVID-19, is critical to protecting the health and welfare of entire humanity. Hospitals play a very critical role within the health system in providing essential medical care to the community, particularly during the crisis. But hospitals are complicated and vulnerable institutions, dependent on crucial external support and supply lines. During the current outbreak, an interruption of these critical support services and supplies would potentially disrupt the provision of acute health care by an unprepared health-care facility. Any shortage of critical equipment and supplies could limit access to the needed care and have a direct impact on healthcare delivery and panic could potentially jeopardise established working routines. In such scenario, even a modest rise in admission volume can overwhelm a hospital beyond its functional reserve. Even for a well-prepared hospital, coping with the health consequences of a COVID-19 outbreak would be a complex challenge for sure. WHO hospital readiness checklist shows the key actions to take in the context of a continuous hospital emergency preparedness process.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning has submitted the attached response to the NHS consultation on draft requirements for Patient Safety Specialist roles.
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Content ArticleOn 8 April 2014, former Health Minister Edwin Poots announced his intention to commission former Chief Medical Officer of England, Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, to advise on the improvement of governance arrangements across the HSC. "The Right Time, The Right Place" Sir Liam was subsequently tasked with investigating whether an improvement in the quality of governance arrangements is needed and whether the current arrangements support a culture of openness, learning and making amends.