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Community PostI am currently working to develop a new process for the investigation of incidents related to digital healthcare, something which clearly sits outside of the usual framework or process of investigating traditional patient safety incidents. I would be grateful for opportunities to discuss and share experiences and ideas with others. If you have already investigated these sort of incidents what sort of approach did you utilise and have you reviewed it post event in respect of effectiveness. @Keith Bates Clive has suggested it would be beneficial for us to discuss?
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Community PostMost healthcare professionals are familiar with Datix incident reporting software. But how and why has Datix become associated with fear and blame? Datix’s former chief executive and now chairman of Patient Safety Learning, Jonathan Hazan, has written a blog for the hub looking at why this has come about and what needs to be done to improve incident reporting. Do you have any ideas on how we can improve incident reporting? We'd love to hear from you. Reply to this topic below.
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Content ArticleThe horrifying case of neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital, has raised hard questions for NHS leaders about how organisations respond to concerns about staff, but could digital systems help detect NHS staff who harm patients at an earlier point? If the pattern connecting Letby to the babies’ deaths had been detected by a digital system, would the response from the trust have been different? Would a machine have been believed? Alison Leary, chair of healthcare and workforce modelling at London South Bank University and a leading expert on nursing and data, suggests there is potentially a much bigger role for digital in patient safety.
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Pieces: Claudia's story of a serious incident
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This digital story produced by Patient Voices, hears from Claudia who reflects on the unexpected death of a baby she helped care for in hospital. Claudia describes her own and her team's emotions as they debriefed and embarked on their serious incident report.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn this article in the Irish Times, Niall discusses his book, Oops! Why Things Go Wrong, and explores why error is inevitable, how it affects many different industries and areas of society, sometimes catastrophically, and most importantly, what we can do about it. You can also listen to an interview with Niall on BBC Radio Ulster’s Talkback (Listen from 38 mins to 57 mins). Related reading on the hub: Oops! Why things go wrong – a blog by Niall Downey
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Content ArticleFrom September 2023 all organisations who previously reported to NRLS should make the switch to recording to the new Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service, which will replace the NRLS. From Autumn 2023 organisations will also make the transition from the Serious Incident Framework (SIF) to the Patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF). This means there will be changes to the expectations and processes associated with recording information about the response to patient safety incidents This document provides detail into where incident responses are to be recorded during the transition to LFPSE and PSIRF.
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Content ArticleIn the early 21st century, the patient safety movement began to talk about system safety. Recognising that people are inherently fallible, advocates for patient safety proposed that it was wrong to blame individual clinicians for poorly designed systems that were full of error traps. However, in a 2013 BMJ editorial, Kaveh G Shojania and Mary Dixon-Woods argue that we must also take seriously the performance and behaviours of individual clinicians if we are to make healthcare safer for patients. They draw on research showing that ‘bad apples’—individuals who repeatedly display incompetent or grossly unprofessional behaviours—clearly exist. This is never more evident than today, when we read about the conviction of nurse Lucy Letby.
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Content ArticleAll health overuse implies an unnecessary risk of patients suffering adverse events (AEs). However, this hypothesis has not been corroborated by direct estimates for inappropriate hospital admission (IHA). The objectives of the study were (1) to analyse the association between IHA and the development of subsequent AEs; and (2) to explore the distinct clinical and economic implications of AEs subsequent IHA compared to appropriate admissions. It found that patients with IHA have a higher risk of subsequent occurrence of AE. Due to the multifactorial nature of AEs, IHA is a possible contributing factor. AEs developed after IHA are associated with scheduled admissions, prolonged ICU stays, and resulted in significant cost overruns.
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Content ArticleThis guidance for users of the new Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service provides context and guidance on selection of appropriate categories when recording incidents. It focuses on which Event Type is appropriate for different circumstances, and how to select the most appropriate options for the Levels of Harm categorisation required within Patient Safety Incidents. It covers the following topics: Definitions – event types Definitions – harm grading When are harm grading fields mandatory? Recording guidance questions and answers
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NHS Resolution: Annual report and accounts 2022/23 (13 July 2023)
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This annual report looks back at the work undertaken by NHS Resolution in 2022-23. NHS Resolution is an arm’s-length body of the Department of Health and Social Care, responsible for providing expertise to the NHS on resolving concerns and disputes fairly, sharing learning for improvement and preserving resources for patient care.- Posted
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Content ArticleA useful glossary attached of PSIRF terms and acronyms created by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. See also: HSIB: Safety investigation jargon buster
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Content ArticleWales' national policy on patient safety incident reporting and management.
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Community PostDear hub members We've a request to help from New South Wales. They and their RLDatix colleagues request: The public healthcare system in New South Wales (NSW), Australia is changing how we investigate health care incidents. We are aiming to add to our armoury of investigation methods for serious clinical incidents and would love to hear your suggestions. Like many health care settings worldwide, in NSW we have solely used Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for over 15 years. We are looking for alternate investigation methods to complement RCA. So we are putting the call out … Are there other serious incident investigation methods (other than RCAs) you would recommend? What’s been your experience with introducing and/or using these methods? Do you have learnings, data or resources that you could share? Do you have policy or procedure documents about specific methods? Any journal articles – health care or otherwise – that are must-reads? We've many resources on investigations on the hub and recent thinking in the UK and internationally that might be of value including: UK Parliamentary report - Investigating clinical incidents in the NHS and from that the creation of A Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch applying a wide range of methodologies in national learning investigations informed by ergonomics and human factors UK's NHS Improvement recent engagement on a new Serious Incident Framework (due to piloted in early 2020) Dr Helen Higham work with the AHSN team in Oxford to improve the quality of incident investigations Patient engagement in investigations Lessons to be learned from Inquiries into unsafe care and reflections on the quality of investigations Insights by leading investigators and resources written specifically for us by inclusion our Expert Topic Lead @MartinL Do check these out in this section of the hub https://www.pslhub.org/learn/investigations-risk-management-and-legal-issues/ Please add to this knowledge and give us your reflections. We'd be happy to start up specific discussions on topics of interest. Thank you all, Helen
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Making meaningful decisions from NRLS reports
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Dear All Please excuse my ignorance, especially if I am failing to see or understand something that is so glaringly obvious! However, I wondered if any of you, my esteemed colleagues, would be able to assist me with a conundrum that I currently face: Number of incidents occurring per 1,000 bed days My questions: What does this actually mean, and how is this useful exactly? How do you know if the sum of a bed days calculation is good or bad? How can this sum be used to quantify/understand incidents that occur within an outpatient setting (or a setting that does not involve bed days)? For example, if we say that an organisation has 5,910 incidents and a bed days figure of 171,971, we would then need to calculate 5,910 / 171,971 x 1000 = 34.36. As the NRLS uses the 'metric', incidents by 1000 bed days, to write a report which includes this sum for your organisation, and that of your "cluster" (other organisations that are 'supposedly' similar to yours), what does this sum actually signify and how can this be used to try and compare yourself to other service providers? Regards Faizan- Posted
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Community PostIncidents per 1000 bed days – what does this actually mean? How is this sum used to quantify incidents reported in an outpatient setting?
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Content ArticleThis letter in the BMJ in 2004 from Richard Thomson highlights the difficulty of accurately quantifying patient safety incidents. Thomson writes that data relevant to patient safety should not be presented alone and out of context. He highlights what was the National Patient Safety Agency and the development of a national reporting and learning system to enable healthcare staff to report incidents anonymously.
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Content ArticlePennsylvania is the only state that requires acute care facilities to report all events of harm or potential for harm. The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PA-PSRS) is the largest repository of patient safety data in the United States and one of the largest in the world, with over 4.5 million acute care event reports dating back to 2004. Herein, we examine patient safety event reports submitted to the PA-PSRS acute care database in 2022 and compare them to prior years. The authors extracted data from PA-PSRS and obtained data from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4). Counts of reports were calculated based on report submission date, and rates were calculated based on event occurrence date and calculated per 1,000 patient days for hospitals or 1,000 surgical encounters for ambulatory surgical facilities (ASFs). The study found there was a decrease in the number of incident reports submitted to PA-PSRS in 2022 and an increase in serious and high harm event reports.
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Content ArticleOur heavily curated Instagram society has become very intolerant of error. In an era where everything we present is airbrushed, tweaked, filtered and polished before being released into the wild, we labour under the misapprehension that the real world is similar. We are sadly mistaken. The real world is messy, imperfect and error-prone. In this blog, Niall Downey talks about his book, Oops! Why Things Go Wrong, which explores why error is inevitable, how it affects many different industries and areas of society, sometimes catastrophically, how it is sometimes actually quite efficient from a physiological standpoint and, most importantly, what we can do about it.
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Content ArticleThe extent to which postintensive care unit (ICU) clinics may improve patient safety for those discharged after receiving intensive care remains unclear. This observational cohort study from Karlick et al., conducted at an academic, tertiary care medical centre, used qualitative survey data analysed via conventional content analysis to describe patient safety threats encountered in the post-ICU clinic. For 83 included patients, safety threats were identified for 60 patients resulting in 96 separate safety threats. These were categorised into 7 themes: medication errors (27%); inadequate medical follow-up (25%); inadequate patient support (16%); high-risk behaviours (5%); medical complications (5%); equipment/supplies failures (4%); and other (18%). Of the 96 safety threats, 41% were preventable, 27% ameliorable, and 32% were neither preventable nor ameliorable. Nearly 3 out of 4 patients within a post-ICU clinic had an identifiable safety threat. Medication errors and delayed medical follow-up were the most common safety threats identified; most were either preventable or ameliorable.
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Content ArticleThis study in the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management aimed to assess the patient safety situation in Ghana across the World Health Organization's (WHO’s) 12 action areas of patient safety. The authors used interviews and observation including a WHO adapted questionnaire across 16 selected hospitals, including two teaching hospitals selected from the northern and southern parts of the Ghana. The key strength identified in the patient safety situational analysis was knowledge and learning in patient safety, while patient safety surveillance was the weakest action area identified. There were also weaknesses in areas such as national patient policy, healthcare associated infections, surgical safety, patient safety partnerships and patient safety funding.
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Content ArticleThis study in PLOS ONE assessed the frequency of adverse event reporting in Ghanaian hospitals, the patient safety culture determinants of the adverse event reporting and the implications for Ghanaian healthcare facilities. The authors found that the majority of health professionals had at least reported adverse events in the past 12 months across all 13 healthcare facilities studied. The patient safety culture dimensions were statistically significant in distinguishing between participants who frequently reported adverse events and otherwise.
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Content ArticleAdverse incidents arising from suboptimal healthcare are a major cause of worldwide morbidity and mortality. Arriving at an understanding of the conditions under which adverse incidents occur has the potential to improve the safety of healthcare provision. Staff working in the NHS have been contributing their experiences via a narrative data capture platform – SenseMaker – to help gain contextual insights on a wide range of topics under exploration by the NHS Horizons team. This blog by Rosanna Hunt (Senior Associate, NHS Horizons) in collaboration with Lizzy MacNamara (Junior Research Consultant, The Cynefin Co.) and Taj Nathan (Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Cheshire & the Wirral Partnership Foundation Trust) describes how the SenseMaker® platform could be used to extract staff experiences on the topic of patient safety incidents both reported and unreported by staff, and the facilitated conversations that would be needed to transform the data into actionable insights and commitment to change.
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Content ArticleA hot briefing template for the purpose of sharing lessons learned across Scotland particularly for rare or unusual events.
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Content ArticleThese templates were developed by Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital for use in After Action Review, SWARM and Rapid Review toolkit responses.
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