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Content ArticleIn this blog Dr Henrietta Hughes, Patient Safety Commissioner for England, outlines the activities included in the Patient Safety Commissioner Business Plan 2024-25.
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Content ArticleThis article explores the ‘the moment of patient safety’—the period around 2000 when patient safety became a key policy concern of the UK NHS and other healthcare systems. While harm caused by medical care (iatrogenic injury) had long been acknowledged by clinicians and scientists, from 2000 a new systemic language of patient safety emerged in the NHS that promoted novel managerial and regulatory approaches to patient harm. This language reflected the state’s increasing role in regulating healthcare, as well as the erosion of medical autonomy and the rise of new forms of bureaucratic management. Acknowledging a transnational, intellectual context behind the rise of policy interest in patient safety—for example, the application of insights from the industrial safety sciences—this article examines the role played by domestic cultural factors, such as medical negligence litigation and healthcare scandals, in helping to define the new language in Britain.
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WHO: Patient safety rights charter (18 April 2024)
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The Patient safety rights charter is a key resource intended to support the implementation of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030: Towards eliminating avoidable harm in health care. The Charter aims to outline patients’ rights in the context of safety and promotes the upholding of these rights, as established by international human rights standards, for everyone, everywhere, at all times. -
Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning has designed a set of unique Patient Safety Standards and support tools that can help organisations not only establish clearly defined safety aims and goals, but also demonstrate their achievement. Our 'Organisational Snapshot' is an easily implemented diagnostic focused on our patient safety Foundations and Aims and cross-referenced to our full Standards. Using a mix of one-on-one interviews and workshops with a small number of selected individuals, our 'Snapshot' can quickly identify: Where your strengths and weaknesses are on patient safety. Where your focus should be on patient safety improvement. How to create or update a strategic plan and goals reflecting the diagnostic. If you need or want to undertake a more detailed assessment against our Standards.
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Content ArticleThe Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) came into operation on 1 October 2023. One of the organisation's key priorities is to develop a new strategy, outlining the long-term goals and themes that underpin its objectives. This consultation is an opportunity to engage and shape HSSIB's strategy and investigation criteria for the future. The organisation is inviting comments and suggestions for improvement from all stakeholders. Comments can be submitted via this online survey. The deadline for submissions to the consultation is 16 May 2024.
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World Patient Safety Day 2024
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Content ArticleHealth Services Research (HSR) conceptual models examine the complexity and “basic science” of patient safety. HSR methods can help quantify patient safety problems, enhance their understanding, and develop and test solutions. However, preventable harm persists and even worsened during the pandemic. One reason is inadequate attention and investment in patient safety over the past two decades. Significant investments are still needed to measure the burden of different patient safety events across settings and to address emerging safety threats. Solutions need to be developed, evaluated, and implemented through rigorous research to ensure widespread, effective adoption. Multidisciplinary strategies are required both to mitigate safety threats before they lead to patient harm, and to close the implementation gap. Outside of AHRQ and VA funding, patient safety research in the United States is underfunded. Efforts to translate HSR to patient care, policy, and clinical practice is essential for patient safety improvements. These efforts require health services researchers to go beyond publishing a paper; they must work closely with healthcare organizational leaders, clinicians, policymakers, and patients to ensure their findings are acted upon, and to help propose and test solutions. The National Center for Patient Safety (NCPS) offers an excellent model to do so by funding dedicated patient safety centres of inquiry (PSCIs) nationally. PSCIs focus on research and implementation activities that promote organization-wide learning. The PSCI model adds significant value to creating a learning health system for safety that invests in patient safety data gathering, analysis, learning, and actionable improvements.
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Content ArticleAqua is an NHS health and care quality improvement organisation working across the NHS, care providers and local authorities to identify, refine and embed sustainable strategies for high-quality care and regulatory excellence. Aqua’s Strategy for 2024 to 2027 outlines their aims and priorities for this period. Through their discussions with partners and colleagues they have identified 5 key areas: Safe care Culture and Leadership excellence Listening and acting on users’ experience Continuous improvement Governance and regulatory support.
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Content ArticleThe World Health Organization (WHO) is in the process of establishing a Roster of consultants in the area of patient safety with the main objective of identifying experts from all over the world in different patient safety areas who may support the implementation of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan (GPSAP) 2021-2030 at global, regional, country and institutional levels. The experts with the successful outcome of their application will be placed on the Roster and subsequently may be selected for consultancy assignments in the specified area of work, primarily across the seven strategic objectives of the GPSAP 2021-2030. More information can be found in the link below. Closing date for applicants: 3 April 2024.
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EventuntilAs we all know, Patient Safety remains an urgent global public health issue, pertinent to all health systems around the world. Among the most important advances in recent years, the WHO’s publication of the first Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030 stands out, a roadmap that is expected to guide member countries in making decisions and implementing different strategies and measures with the aim of safeguarding the safety of care as a central axis of health policies. The 2023 summit in Montreux marked another milestone in the series. It focused on implementing known measures and interventions. This is crucial to overcome the so-called implementation gap to further advance in strengthening patient safety . The Chile 2024 Summit will delve into how different countries have managed to implement and sustain over time different strategies related to delivering safe health care in the framework of the 7 strategic objectives of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan, key lessons learned in the implementation process, results obtained and upcoming challenges, with the aim of gathering this knowledge and transforming it into national commitments to address concrete actions. This is why the summit 2024 will follow the overarching slogan of “Bringing and maintaining changes in patient safety policies and practices”. Interested participants are welcome to register online https://psschile.minsal.cl/?page_id=945&lang=en#038;lang=en (English) and https://psschile.minsal.cl/?page_id=945 (Spanish) More information about the registration procedure, the programme, and speakers as well as on practical matters can be found on the website and will be continuously updated: https://psschile.minsal.cl/
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US National Patient Safety Board Act 2024
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This article provides an overview of recent legislative developments intended to create a new independent board within the Department of Health and Human Services to improve patient safety in the United States of America.- Posted
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USA: Patient Safety Awareness Week
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Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual recognition event in the USA that occurs in March, is intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. During this week, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) seeks to advance important discussions locally and globally, and inspire action to improve the safety of the health care system — for patients and the workforce. Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognising the work already being done. IHI works with partners around the world to improve the safety of health care for patients, caregivers, and the health care workforce. Learn more about IHI's work to advance patient and workforce safety.- Posted
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EventAt this webinar, WHO will launch two WHO publications on Medication Safety, “Global burden of preventable medication-related harm” and “Policy brief on Medication Without Harm”, to create awareness and to support implementation of the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm. Register
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Content ArticleThe National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate (NQPSD) is a team of healthcare professionals working within the national Health Service Executive (HSE) Ireland to improve patient safety and quality of care. They work in collaboration with Health Service Executive operations, patient partners, healthcare workers and other internal and external partners. Their work is guided by the Patient Safety Strategy 2019-2024.
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Maternity delays spark thousands of safety alerts each year
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Maternity departments are raising thousands of safety reports every year about delayed inductions of labour, HSJ can reveal. Induction of labour may be used when women are overdue, because their waters have broken, or for other medical reasons to speed up the birth, such as poor growth of the baby. Delaying induction therefore may increase risks for both mothers and babies and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence says trusts should raise a “red flag event” if it is delayed for more than two hours after admission. Information collected by HSJ from 50 trusts show 4,945 red flags related to delays in induction of labour in 2022-23. HSJ also found 3,109 reports in 2021-22 and 1,807 in 2020-21 across 47 trusts. Meanwhile, there were 1,997 Datix reports mentioning induction of labour in 2022-23 across 59 trusts able to give HSJ figures, in response to Freedom of Information Act requests, compared with 1,690 in 2021-22 and 1,368 in 2020-21. The Care Quality Commission has also raised concerns in inspections that incidents which should have been treated as “red flags” have not always been reported as such. The watchdog has also raised concerns about a lack of board-level oversight of maternity safety incidents and a need for clearer guidance for staff on reporting processes. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 2 April 2024 -
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Monitor: The role of boards in improving patient safety (2010)
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Patient care inevitably raises issues of safety. Safety measures can never be failsafe, but they can always be improved. The aim of this publication is to offer guidance to boards on helping to bring about these improvements. The publication was developed by Monitor for NHS foundation trusts, though its principles apply equally to other NHS settings. It draws on evidence and best practices from UK pilot sites, and also taps the experience of healthcare providers in other developed countries who use similar principles and approaches. The field research and work with the UK pilot sites took place between October 2009 and March 2010.- Posted
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Content ArticleRecording of the European Patient Safety Foundation conference which took place on the 17 November in Vienna, Austria.
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Content ArticleThe World Health Organization (WHO) has shared a list of key milestones in their Global Patient Safety Journey during 2023.
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Content ArticleThis advocacy brief aims to raise awareness and calls for action to step up patient engagement in healthcare, in line with the objectives of World Patient Safety Day 2023. Its content was structured to follow the outline of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030, which defines and makes recommendations to stakeholder groups.
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Content ArticlePresentation slides from Session 1 of the SEHTA 2023 International MedTech Expo & Conference. This session was on patient voice engagement. Presentations can be downloaded below.
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EventuntilPatient Safety Movement Foundation invites you to the 11th World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. Patient safety thought leaders and advocates from around the globe will come together to share their expertise and develop transformative solutions to enhance safety and outcomes of care for patients worldwide. Register
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News ArticleLoughborough University is collaborating with NHS England to deliver learning to hundreds of healthcare professionals in a bid to improve patient safety. Human factors and ergonomics experts in the School of Design and Creative Arts will deliver Levels 3 and 4 of the NHS Patient Safety Syllabus and Curriculum after winning a competitive tender process. Under the leadership of Dr Mike Fray, supported by Professor Sue Hignett and Professor Thomas Jun, the Loughborough University team will craft and deliver educational content to 820 patient safety specialists across various NHS Trusts in England from 2023 to 2024. In 2021, the NHS Patient Safety Syllabus was created by drawing upon best practice from a number of safety-critical industries. It has as a core aim of changing how staff think about improving patient safety. The key to this is switching the focus to proactive prevention of safety incidents, and away from the current largely retrospective analyses. Dr Fray believes Loughborough University’s world-leading reputation in the delivery of human factors and ergonomics education will help the NHS achieve its goals. Dr Fray said: “No healthcare worker goes to work thinking they will do harm, but the systems, processes and complexity of the work can lead to errors, omissions, or reductions in quality of care. “With this new course we will be able to support patient safety specialists in each Trust to lead safety improvement work and provide safety science expertise to their organisations so that patients across the NHS can benefit.” Aidan Fowler, National Director of Patient Safety said: ‘’Training and education is at the centre of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy so that we can empower people with the latest skills and knowledge in patient safety science. “The launch of this training for our patient safety specialists is the latest development in this work, using the syllabus created with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and adding to the training already available to all staff in the NHS.” Read full story Source: Loughborough University, 15 November 2023
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PSIRF embedding webinar 2
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untilThe Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) sets out a new approach to learning and improving following patient safety incidents across the NHS in England. PSIRF embedding webinars will feature presentations from NHS organisations and will focus on sharing experiences, adaptions and learning as the designed systems and processes put in place prior to transition are operationalised. Recordings, slides and Q&As from our transition webinars series can be found on Future NHS alongside other workshops and supplementary materials and resources: PSIRF Presentations - NHS Patient Safety - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform Audience: Embedding webinars are open to everyone to attend, including both NHS and arm’s length bodies. Presenters: Tracey Herlihey, Head of Patient Safety Incident Response, NHS England Peter Ledwith, Deputy Director of Governance, East Cheshire NHS Trust Liam Oliver, Senior Patient Safety Manager, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board Register- Posted
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