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Content ArticleThe National Institute for Healthcare Research (NIHR) are the nation's largest funder of health and care research and provide the people, facilities and technology that enables research to thrive. Working in partnership with the NHS, universities, local government, other research funders, patients and the public, they deliver and enable world-class research that transforms people's lives, promotes economic growth and advances science.
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Swab safe management to prevent retained swabs
Kathy Nabbie posted an article in Improving systems of care
Implementation of the Swabsafe™ management system at the The Princess Grace Hospital following a never event.- Posted
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Content ArticleFallStop is a quality improvement programme from the Falls Prevention Team at the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust. It was developed in 2016 when they found there was a high rate of falls at one of their hospitals and a failure to learn from incidents. A FallStop Practitioner co-ordinates the programme and delivers training.
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What it feels like working with unsafe staffing
Anonymous posted an article in Florence in the Machine
This blog has been written by a healthcare worker and demonstrates the reality of what it is like caring for patients and families while being chronically low on staff. They describe the impact this has on staff morale and the impact it has on patients, patients family members and the relationship between staff and patients.- Posted
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Letter from America: A Grand Adventure
lzipperer posted an article in Letter from America
‘Letter from America’ is a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting fresh accomplishments in patient safety from the United States. The series will cover successes large and small. I share them here to generate conversations through the hub, over a coffee and in staff rooms to transfer these innovations to the frontline of UK care delivery.- Posted
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Why investigate? The patient's perspective
Joanne Hughes posted an article in Investigations and complaints
A brief, heartfelt piece presented purely from the harmed patient's perspective and urging those involved in making decisions about whether or not to investigate to consider the impact of a good investigation on the ability of the harmed patient and their family to heal... Well received on twitter and described by a number of patients as 'you've said what I feel'. A reminder that a crucial purpose of the investigation is to give a harmed patient and their family a full explanation to help them understand, process and share for learning their experience. All necessary to their recovery. All necessary to their own 'safety' following an incident (we know poor responses cause additional suffering to those already harmed). The author also highlighted (via twitter) how much of this blog relates to the needs of staff involved in incidents too...- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is the only nonprofit organisation in the US devoted entirely to preventing medication errors. In this video, produced by ISMP in partnership with the Temple University School of Pharmacy, experts discuss medication safety concerns and offer practical error prevention recommendations.
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Content ArticleThe patient is the biggest stakeholder in the NHS with the most to lose when things go wrong. Suzie Shepherd and Dr Kate Granger share their experiences in this video.
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Content ArticleThinkSAFE is developed by Newcastle University, in partnership with NHS staff and patients. Research has shown that by encouraging patients and their families to work together with hospital staff, safety can be improved during the patient’s stay in hospital.
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Content ArticleHelen Haskell, co-chair of the WHO Patients for Patient Safety Advisory Group, brings the patient leader perspective to her take on World Patient Safety Day in this essay published in the BMJ.
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Content ArticleNHS Resolution's primary focus for the future is to resolve concerns fairly. They also have a duty to use what we know to help to prevent the same thing happening again. While they are not a patient safety body, they do have a unique contribution to make to the patient safety system.
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What is the Healthcare Excellence Canada?
Claire Cox posted an article in Healthcare Excellence Canada
Through collaboration with patients, caregivers and people working in healthcare, Healthcare Excellence Canada turns proven innovations into lasting improvements in all dimensions of healthcare excellence. Healthcare Excellence Canada focuses on improving care of older adults, bringing care closer to home with safe transitions, and supporting pandemic recovery and resilience – with safety and quality embedded across all our efforts. They are committed to fostering inclusive and equitable care through meaningful partnerships with different groups, including patients and caregivers, First Nations, Inuit and Métis, healthcare providers and more. Launched in 2021, Healthcare Excellence Canada brings together the former Canadian Patient Safety Institute and Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement. Healthcare Excellence Canada is an independent, not-for-profit charity funded primarily by Health Canada.- Posted
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Content ArticleQuality 2020 is a 10 year quality strategy for health and social care developed by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety for Northern Ireland.
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Content ArticleListening to patients is hugely important as they are at the very the heart of what we do. We need to listen to them more, as they help us all move the conversation on safety forward. This short video from the Health Service Journal includes patients, relatives and patient advocates and staff who speak about their experiences from being in the healthcare system.
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Content ArticleThis short video describes how the staff at NHS Imperial College Healthcare are at the heart of patient safety and showcases some of the achievements of their teams in improving patient safety.
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Content ArticleThis strategy sets out how the Royal College of Pathologists will support patient safety. Through this strategy, the College aims to engage and empower pathologists and their teams, at all stages in their careers, to continuously improve the safety of the services and care they provide. The College will support the development of safer cultures and systems with patient-centred collaborative working across the interfaces of care.
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Content ArticlePatient safety has finally been recognised as a top global health priority, but much more work needs to be done to eliminate patient harm. However, on World Patient Safety Day there are reasons for optimism. Fontana et al, in a commentary published in The Lancet, reflect on how the momentum for patient safety has never been stronger and why the global health community should harness this opportunity to create a foundation for sustainable and resilient health systems that addresses persistent patient safety challenges and strengthens resilience in the face of future needs.
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Content ArticleA three-year programme launched in February 2017 to support improvement in the quality and safety of maternity and neonatal units across England - formerly known as the Maternal and Neonatal Health Safety Collaborative. NHS Improvement aim to: improve the safety and outcomes of maternal and neonatal care by reducing unwarranted variation and provide a high quality healthcare experience for all women, babies and families across maternity and neonatal care settings in England contribute to the national ambition, set out in Better Birthsopens in a new window of reducing the rates of maternal and neonatal deaths, stillbirths, and brain injuries that occur during or soon after birth by 20% by 2020.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning's Chair, Jonathan Hazan, speaks about his experience in, and passion for, patient safety, and why the hub is so important for patient safety. He also discusses some of Patient Safety Learning's six foundations for a patient-safe future, as described in our report, A Blueprint for Action. View video (4:16 mins)
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Recognising and managing frailty in primary care (May 2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in GP and primary care
This issue of Effectiveness Matters has been produced by the Centres for Review and Dissemination in collaboration with the Yorkshire and Humber AHSN and the Improvement Academy and updates a previous issue published in January 2015. Frailty is a distinct health state related to reduced function across multiple physiological systems that develops as part of the ageing process. Frailty means that even minor events can trigger disproportionate changes in health status after which the patient fails to recover to their previous level of health.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis is a competency based framework for patient safety set out by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
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Content ArticleThis extensive resource, by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, based on evidence and leading practices, helps patients and families, patient partners, providers, and leaders work together more effectively to improve patient safety. The Institute states that collaboratively, we can more proactively identify risks, better support those involved in an incident, and help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
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Content ArticleToolkit to promote safe surgery helps peri-operative and surgical units in US hospitals identify opportunities to improve care and safety practices and implement evidence-based interventions to prevent surgical site infections. The toolkit has evidence-based, practical resources that reflect the real-world experiences of the frontline clinicians and subject matter experts who participated in a national implementation project.
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Content ArticleToolkit to improve safety for mechanically ventilated patients helps hospitals in the US make care safer for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units (ICUs). ICU staff can use the toolkit to reduce complications for patients on ventilators.
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Content ArticleResearch shows that when patients are engaged in their healthcare, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals in primary care settings work together as partners to improve care.
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