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Content ArticleA number of associations and societies across the UK have come together to provide guidance on the safe switching of warfarin to direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs). This needs to be undertaken in a phased manner over the 12 week cycle of INR monitoring to protect the supply chain for ALL patients. As highlighted in the guidelines, many patients are not suitable for a switch from warfarin to DOACs and further guidance will be available shortly to support services providing care for these patients.
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Content ArticleMarch’s Letter from America highlights insights from the field shared during Patient Safety Awareness Week earlier this month and touches on improving transitions, managing implicit bias and using evidence. Letter from America is the latest in a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting new accomplishments in patient safety from the United States. *Please note, this letter was written before WHO announced that COVID-19 was a pandemic, just a few short weeks ago. We acknowledge that the world has changed since then but we feel this content is still relevant to safer patient care, maybe even more so now.
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Content ArticleThis guide, published by the American-based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) looks at how patient safety can be improved in primary care settings by engaging patients and families. It is the result of a two-year effort to develop an evidence-based collection of interventions and case studies exploring how primary care organisations and practitioners engage patients and families in improvement work and in their personal safe care. The resource includes a user's guide and is accompanied by a deep environmental scan that informed the development of the work.
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Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Improving patient safety
By addressing new challenges and forming Actionable Patient Safety Solutions (APSS) the Patient Safety Movement Foundation believe they can reduce the number of preventable deaths in hospitals to zero. Here you will find links to 18 challenges and over 30 solutions to overcome some of the leading patient safety challenges facing hospitals today. Resources are available to download and share. -
Content ArticleThe CEO of Disability Rights UK has written to the Rt Hon Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work, and the Rt Hon Helen Whately MP, Minister for Care, to raise concerns about safeguarding disabled people, people with long-term health conditions and older people in relation to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
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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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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 ArticleThis website allows patients and professionals to report suspected side effects to medicines or medical device and diagnostic adverse incidents used in coronavirus treatment to the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) to ensure safe and effective use. When reporting patients and healthcare professionals are encouraged to provide as much information as possible.
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Content ArticleWe can use what we’ve learned from the crisis to make a 21st-century service fit for patients and staff alike, says Joel Schamroth in a blog to the Guardian. This pandemic is forcing us to rethink how we deliver healthcare. For too long patients have experienced fragmented services, administrative hurdles and unreliable lines of communication. The “patient experience” often remains an afterthought in the NHS, leading to worse health outcomes, and costing the NHS dearly. The lesson the public is learning is that money can be made available when it’s deemed to be important. In a matter of weeks COVID-19 has shown us that change is possible.
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Content ArticleRecording now available for the ISQUA webinar. Dr David Bates reflects on achievements and challenges in patient safety since the publication of To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Patient Safety Learning considers the impact of the COVID-19 on the social care sector in the UK. This blog highlights the emerging patient safety issues the pandemic is creating in the sector and recommends some essential steps that need to be taken now to tackle some of the most urgent patient safety concerns.
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Content ArticleA blog from the charity, Picker, on the benefits of patient-centred care and the new challenges the coronavirus pandemic brings. Picker is an independent charity which uses patient experience of healthcare to identify priorities in delivering the highest care quality.
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Content ArticlePatient safety has been increasingly recognised as an issue of global importance. To overcome this issue,Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has taken an initiative for patient safety by introducing a National Patient Safety Implementation Framework (NPSIF), which positions patient safety as fundamental element of healthcare. NPSIF is intended to be adopted by both, public and private, sectors to address the various issues arising while providing qualitative healthcare services.
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In this blog, Jayne Flood, Falls Prevention Practitioner at East Kent Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, describes how her team introduced ‘yellow kits’* to assist patients at high risk of falls in A&E, and evaluated their impact. *Developed in partnership with Medline Industries Ltd.- Posted
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Content ArticleMental health nurses have a crucial role in preventing medical incidents and in promoting safety culture because they provide and coordinate most of patients' care. Therefore, they are able to enhance patients' outcomes and reduce nurses' injuries. The aims of this study from S H Hamaideh in International Nursing Review were to assess the perception of mental health nurses about patients' safety culture and to detect the factors which may affect patients' safety culture at psychiatric hospitals.
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Healthcare Improvement Scotland: Mental Health portfolio
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Mental health
The Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland's Improvement Hub supporting improvement across health and social care. The aim of theSPSP for Mental Health is People are and feel safe. -
Content ArticleIdentifying a route to net zero emissions for a complex system as large as the NHS is particularly challenging. To understand how and when the NHS can reach net zero we established an NHS Net Zero Expert Panel, reviewed nearly 600 pieces of evidence submitted to us and conducted extensive analysis and modelling. The targets set are as ambitious as possible, while remaining realistic; and are supported by immediate action and a commitment to continuous monitoring, evaluation and innovation. The aim is to be the world’s first net zero national health service.
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Content ArticleIn June 2023 the AHSN Network published a refreshed Patient Safety Plan, reflecting progress made across focus areas including managing deterioration in care homes; maternity and neonatal health; medicines safety; mental health; and system safety. In this podcast episode, Caroline Kenyon talks to four leaders responsible for delivering the plan across the country, Tasha Swinscoe, Alison White, Katie Whittle and Jodie Mazar.
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Content ArticleThis review covers the impact the Eastern AHSN has delivered throughout the East of England and beyond in 2022/23, including an increased focus on fostering an innovation culture, tackling health inequalities, and supporting innovators to turn their ideas into positive health impact.
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Content ArticleThe AHSN Network comprises 15 AHSNs across England, established by NHS England in 2013 to improve health and generate economic growth in regionally distinct ways. In 2021, they launched their five-year strategy where they set out their ambition to support the NHS through an increased emphasis on health outcomes, their innovation pipeline, and by using knowledge and learning to build and embed greater momentum for NHS pathway transformation. Here is their latest progress report and achievements.
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Content ArticleThis video introduces England's 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives (hosted by Academic Health Science Networks) and how they support the NHS Patient Safety Strategy in areas such as COVID-19, managing deteriorating patients, maternal and neonatal safety, medicines safety, mental health and more. Download the slides here
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Content ArticleThis progress report outlines the contribution of Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) during the first year of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. It looks at the impact it has had in improving safety in hospitals, maternity and neonatal units, care homes and the community. It also describes how AHSNs and the Patient Safety Collaboratives they host have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting programmes on tracheostomy safety and the use of pulse oximeters to safely monitor patients at home. Examples featured in the report include tools to spot and manage patients at risk of serious illness in hospitals and care homes, discharge safety bundles, and award-winning projects to support premature babies and their families.
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Content ArticleThis report from the AHSN Network shines light on ways we can do more to improve safety for residents of care homes. The publication showcases over 30 examples of projects delivered by England’s 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) and the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) which host them. They include case studies in medicines safety, dementia, monitoring and screening, and workforce development.
