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Content ArticleThis paper, by the King's Fund, argues that the NHS in England cannot meet the healthcare needs of the population without a sustained and comprehensive commitment to quality improvement as its principal strategy.
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Content ArticleThis paper from Helen Hughes presents a proposal to improve the safety of patients and the effectiveness of healthcare using Human Factors methods.
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Content ArticleCall for Concern is an initiative from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust enabling patients and their families to directly refer patients to the critical care outreach team.
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Content ArticleUnsafe healthcare is a well-recognised issue internationally and is attracting attention in India as well. Drawing upon the various efforts that have been made to address this issue in India and abroad, Madock et al. explore how we can accelerate developments and build a culture of patient safety in the Indian health sector. Using five international case studies, the authors describe the experiences of promoting patient safety in various ways to inform future developments in India. The authors offer a roadmap for 2020, which contains suggestions on how India could build a culture of patient safety
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Content ArticleThe Secretary of State asked NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a new strategy for patient safety as a ‘golden thread’ running through healthcare. They consulted the UK on a set of ideas in December 2018. They received 527 contributions from organisations and individuals (staff, patients and carers). This strategy is the result of the consultation.
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Content ArticleInfographic summarising the key messages from the MBRRACE-UK 2018 report 'Saving Lives, Improving Mothers’ Care'.
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Content ArticleSerious Incidents in health care are adverse events, where the consequences to patients, families and carers, staff or organisations are so significant or the potential for learning is so great, that a heightened level of response is justified. This Framework, set out by NHS England, describes the circumstances in which such a response may be required and the process and procedures for achieving it, to ensure that Serious Incidents are identified correctly, investigated thoroughly and, most importantly, learned from to prevent the likelihood of similar incidents happening again.
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Content ArticleEngaged and involved patients are key to achieving a healthcare system that is responsive to their needs and values. The British Medical Association(BMA) patient liaison group (PLG) wants to promote patient and public involvement (PPI), also known as PPE (patient and public engagement). GPs and practice managers can use this tool kit to involve patients and the public in healthcare planning and delivery.
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Content Article'Together we care' describes what Guy's and St Thomas' Trust. want to achieve over the next five years, what this means for patients and services and how they intend to get there. It is a framework to guide our decisions, and to help consider how best to respond to new developments.
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Content ArticleThe NHS Long Term Plan is a plan for the NHS to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes. It sets out how the £20.5 billion budget settlement for the NHS, announced by the Prime Minister in summer 2018, will be spent over the next 5 years.
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Content ArticleProfessor Sidney Dekker of Griffith University speaks about why things go wrong.
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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?
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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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Patient safety: this is public health (2014)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Improving patient safety
Avoidable patient harm is a major public health concern. While the public health community has contributed much to one aspect of patient harm prevention, infection control, the tools and techniques of public health have far more to offer to the emerging field of patient safety science. Patient safety practice has become increasingly professionalised in recent years, but specialist degree programmes in the field remain scarce. Healthcare organisations should consider graduate training in public health as an avenue for investing in the professional development of patient safety practitioners, and schools and programs of public health should support further research and teaching to support patient safety improvement. Alan J Card discusses this further in his article in the Journal of Healthcare Risk Management. -
Content ArticleThe “WHO handbook for national quality policy and strategy” outlines an approach for the development of national policies and strategies to improve the quality of care. Such policy and strategy can help clarify the structures, roles and responsibilities within national quality efforts, support the institutionalisation of a culture of quality, and secure buy-in from health system leaders and stakeholders. The handbook is not a prescriptive process guide but is designed to support teams developing policies and strategies in this area, and very much recognizes the varied expertise, experience and resources available to countries. It outlines eight essential elements to be considered by teams developing national quality policy and strategy: national health goals and priorities; local definition of quality; stakeholder mapping and engagement; situational analysis; governance and organizational structure; improvement methods and interventions; health management information systems and data systems; quality indicators and core measures. The NQPS handbook was co-developed with countries each finding themselves at different stages of the development and execution of national quality policies and strategies and was informed by the review of a sample of more than 20 existing quality strategies across low-, middle- and high-income countries globally.
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Content ArticleThe Quality and Patient Safety Team in West Norfolk Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) works to ensure that safe, effective and high quality health services are commissioned and delivered for its population. The team works to promote a culture of openness and transparency where mistakes are learnt from and where a culture of service improvement is influenced across the health and social care community. This is their quality strategy for 2018-2021.
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Content ArticleWe launched our green paper, 'A Patient-Safe Future’, in September 2018 for two reasons: first to help us develop our strategy and work programme to ensure we are focused on areas that will help make a real difference and, second, to develop a clear and consistent message about how the wider system needs to change to better support patient-safe care.
