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Content ArticleThe Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s Safety Resources hub has information and resources about alerts, safety resources, safety in the Emergency Department and safety events. This page is managed by the Safer Care Committee, which is part of the Quality in Emergency Care Committee (QECC). The QECC has produced a series of strategy documents, explaining the role of RCEM, and these committees, in improving patient care.
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Content ArticleAn HSIB guest blog post from Henrietta Hughes introducing her vision for her new role as Patient Safety Commissioner.
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Content ArticleThis article* is an update from Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England.
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Content ArticleThis article* is an update from Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England.
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Content ArticleThis article* is an update from Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England.
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Content ArticleThis article* is an update from Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England.
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Content ArticleThis article* is an update from Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England.
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Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill (6 October 2022)
Mark Hughes posted an article in Scotland
The Scottish Government has published a new Bill to establish a Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland. This article provides an overview of the remit, accountability, powers, and responsibilities of the new Commissioner that are proposed in this Bill. -
Content ArticleIt won’t come as a surprise but more than in 9 in 10 of almost 200 NHS leaders that responded to the latest NHS Confederation survey said that risk to patient safety is going to increase as we approach winter. Almost all of them identified the biggest risks being demand for urgent and emergency care and ambulance waits. And most expect to have to make difficult decisions and compromises around safe staffing ratios and delayed transfers of care. As the health and care sector braces for a challenging winter, three key steps could support systems to manage risk and minimise harm, writes Matthew Taylor, chief executive at NHS Confederation: The need for a robust and honest assessment of harm. The role of systems in minimising harm. The role of the centre in providing a helping hand.
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Three years since we launched the hub, our award-winning platform to share learning for patient safety, we have seen it grow in members, content and impact. To date, the hub has received over 565,000 visits and had over 1 million page views. It now has over 3,400 members from 80 countries working in over 1,000 different organisations, and offers 7,500 knowledge resources, viewed by people from 221 countries. We continue to highlight serious patient safety issues, celebrate patient safety achievements, provide ‘how to’ resources on good practice and offer a safe space for staff and patients to share their experiences and discuss challenges. In this blog, we would like to celebrate just some of the work we are especially proud of and highlight where we’ve been making the case for change and the many ways the hub is making an impact. -
EventuntilThis is a high-level, international virtual conference focused on patient safety and protecting health workers hosted jointly by Sovereign Sustainability & Development (SSD), RLDatix and the Saudi Patient Safety Center (SPSC). Registration
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Content ArticleCreating a foundation for safe and reliable care requires more than just a small team in an organisation. This short video captures what the Patient Safety Movement Foundation has to offer healthcare organisations hoping to make their care better and safer from the ground up.
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Content ArticleRecording for the Session on Patient Safety held on 31 October as a part of the Global Indian Physician COVID-19 Collaborative.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of the US Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals is to improve patient safety. The goals focus on problems in healthcare safety in the USA and how to solve them. They include identifying patients correctly, improving staff communication, use medicine safely, use alarms safely, prevent infection, identify patient safety risks and prevent mistakes in surgery.
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Content ArticleMany risks faced by patients in acute mental health settings are similar to those that occur in other areas of healthcare, for example medication errors and cross-infection. In addition, however, there are unsafe behaviours associated with serious mental health problems, including violence and self-harm; the measures taken to address these, such as restraint or seclusion, may result in further risks to patient safety. This article by Catherine Gilliver in the Nursing Times discusses the need for a physical and psychosocial environment in which staff, patients and visitors feel recognised and valued.
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CPSI: Keeping seniors safe (15 May 2020)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Older people
The goal of this virtual discussion is to explore practical solutions for keeping seniors safe. The ideas are drawn from real life experiences noting how COVID-19 impacted seniors, their loved ones as well as healthcare workers and leaders. The focus of the discussion is on identifying safety risks together with practical solutions for seniors who live at home, in residences and long-term care facilities. Watch the webinar on demand and download the slides. -
Content ArticleNew Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, making his first ever speech and policy statement on patient safety at the Patient Safety Learning Conference.
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Content ArticleIn September 2018, we held our first Patient Safety conference at the King’s Fund in London. Over 100 healthcare leaders, clinicians, patient safety experts, politicians and patients and families attended from across the UK to listen to a packed and varied programme of leading experts in patient safety.
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Content ArticleIn this podcast from The Health Foundation, Chief Executive Dr Jennifer Dixon talks to Jeremy Hunt about his tenure as the longest-serving health secretary. Jeremy speaks about his passion for patient safety, a topic which became his professional focus following the Mid-Staffs investigations. He highlights the importance of the patient safety agenda and the need to learn from past experiences. With the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic holding the world’s attention, what would Hunt have done differently? And what are the key lessons for government as we enter a new phase of the pandemic?
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Content ArticleOn 17 November, there will be a Parliamentary launch event of the Surgical Fires Expert Working Group’s report 'A case for the prevention and management of surgical fires in the UK, which focuses on the prevention of surgical fires in the NHS'. Unfortunately surgical fires are still a patient safety issue. Each year patients needlessly suffer burns during surgical procedures which leave them with long-lasting, life-changing injuries and burdens the NHS with millions of pounds of avoidable costs and liabilities. Despite this, there is not a consistent, standardised approach across the NHS to prevent them. Kathy Nabbie, a theatre scrub nurse practitioner, shares how she implemented Fire Risk Assessment Score (FRAS) into her department.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Patient Safety Learning sets out its response to NHS England and NHS Improvement’s draft Framework for involving patients in patient safety. We commend the intention and share thoughts on our perspective on this important patient safety issue. We make proposals for how to strengthen patient engagement and co-production.
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Content ArticleThe work presented here was undertaken by the OECD to provide a strategic background report for the Patient Safety Priority within the G20 Health Working Group (HWG) 2020. It was commissioned by the Saudi Government. ‘"Acting on patient safety requires leadership and communication, political will, and investment. Transparency across a health system is also integral to begin improving safety and reducing harm. This can only be achieved through investing in a modern information infrastructure, but also relies on sound governance, accountability and proactive leadership. The analysis is clear: unsafe care kills millions, and harms tens of millions of people each year. It also exerts a great economic cost on health systems and society, consuming valuable resources that could be put to productive uses elsewhere. Much of this can be prevented through concerted action and adequate investment. The time for action is now."
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Patient Safety Learning considers the need for global action to improve patient safety and sets out its response to the WHO’s consultation on the draft Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030.
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CPSI: Safer Healthcare Now!
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Healthcare Excellence Canada
The Safer Healthcare Now! campaign was launched in 2005 and provides interventions to raise awareness and facilitate implementation of best practices to support patient safety improvement in Canada. The interventions serve as a resource for frontline healthcare providers, healthcare organisations, and health quality committees and councils. This Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) web page provides information, resources, and tools you can put into practice to identify, prevent, and learn from patient safety incidents. -
Content ArticleIn 2008, Sir Liam Donaldson wrote an article looking at the history of the national health service in the UK and the development of clinical governance and a quality framework. He concluded the article by looking at the challenges ahead for the next decade. First, to make quality and safety the common currency of the NHS so that it is on an equal footing to money and productivity; second, to put clinicians in leadership roles with full responsibility for assuring and improving the quality and safety of their services; and third, to build the understanding, expertise and track record on safety in healthcare to the level of other high-risk industries. Now in 2020, how far forward are we in meeting these challenges?
