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Content ArticleTrent Simulation & Clinical Skills Centre has developed this short cartoon to introduce healthcare staff to human factors and ergonomics. The cartoon particularly focuses on individuals, teams and the wider system with sign-posting to find out more about Human Factors and the Trent Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre.
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Content ArticleReact to Red Skin is a pressure ulcer prevention campaign that is committed to educating as many people as possible about the dangers of pressure ulcers and the simple steps that can be take to avoid them. The prevention of avoidable pressure ulcers in the community is one of the biggest challenges that care organisations face - a challenge which currently costs the NHS and care organisations in the UK around £6.5 billion per year. Pressure ulcers affect around 700,000 people in the UK every year and many of these will develop whilst an individual is being cared for in a formal care setting (hospital, nursing home or care home). Many pressure ulcers are avoidable if simple knowledge is provided and preventative best practice is followed. Hear three stories from patients who have been affected by pressure ulcers.
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Content ArticleThis guide is for organisations providing physical activity programmes or sessions for adults (18+) with mental health problems. It will support you to promote safeguarding, prevent abuse, and protect staff members and adults at risk. This guide was written with support of The Ann Craft Trust (ACT) and Mind. The ACT believe that every disabled child and every adult at risk deserves to be treated with the same respect and dignity as everyone else in society. They are a leading provider of safeguarding training, consultations and safeguarding adult reviews working closely with organisations and individuals across the UK to raise awareness and improve practice. Although the guide was developed for the sport's sector, the information and principles are also relevant to healthcare organisations.
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Content ArticleThe Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) is part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland's Improvement Hub (IHUB) supporting improvement across health and social care. This is a unique national programme that aims to improve the safety of healthcare and reduce the level of harm experienced by people using healthcare services. SPSP Mental Health is working with the Scottish Government and partners to deliver the 'Mental Health Strategy: 2017 - 2027', which has meant that the SPSP-MH programme is now expanding its remit from inpatient units to include child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS), perinatal services, older peoples services, learning disabilities, as well as community.
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Content ArticleIn association with the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the Wilton Park High Level Forum on Patient Safety convened experts from around the world to discuss priorities in patient safety at a global level. The two-day concentrated discussion covered the articulation of the burden of harm, possibilities to drive action towards improvement and the various roles different stakeholders play in fostering a culture of continuous improvement for safer care.
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Content ArticleAs cancer care becomes inundated with cutting edge and novel treatments, such as personalised medicine, oral chemotherapy, biosimilars, and immunotherapy, new safety challenges are emerging at increasing speed and complexity.
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NHS's summary of the Mental Capacity Act 2005
Claire Cox posted an article in Best interests and capacity
The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) is designed to protect and empower people who may lack the mental capacity to make their own decisions about their care and treatment. It applies to people aged 16 and over. The NHS provides a summary of the Act. -
Content ArticleHealth and social care systems, organisations and providers are under pressure to organise care around patients’ needs with constrained resources. To implement patient-centred care (PCC) successfully, barriers must be addressed. Up to now, there has been a lack of comprehensive investigations on possible determinants of PCC across various health and social care organisations (HSCOs). This qualitative study from Hower et al., published in BMJ Open, examines determinants of PCC implementation from decision makers’ perspectives across diverse HSCOs.
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SHIFT to Safety - Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Claire Cox posted an article in Healthcare Excellence Canada
Established by Health Canada in 2003, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) works with governments, health organisations, leaders and healthcare providers to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality. SHIFT to Safety is a major shift to empower staff with the tools and information they need to keep patients safe, at any level. -
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Safety, Skills and Improvement: Patient Safety Zone
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Scotland
NHS Education for Scotland's multi-disciplinary information and resources to help you understand more about patient safety and your contribution to making care safer. -
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Moving towards a safety II approach
Claire Cox posted an article in Systems
Suzette Woodward has been studying safety since the 1990s. In her commentary published in the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, she describes three concepts: complex adaptive systems, three models of safety, and safety I and safety II. -
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 ArticlePublished in HSJ, Annie Laverty, Chief Experience Officer, Northumbria Healthcare Foundation Trust, speaks to Jeremy Taylor, former CEO of patient group National Voices, on the work her and the trust has done on patient experience, her motivation and the impact it has had.
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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 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.
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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 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 ArticleProfessor Sidney Dekker of Griffith University speaks about why things go wrong.
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Content ArticleAfter the COVID-19 pandemic is over, a key issue remains for the UK’s NHS: Will there be less avoidable patient harm, fewer occurrences of “never events,” and fewer headline grabbing patient safety crises? John Tingle explores this further in his blog for the Bill of Health. John Tingle is a regular contributor to the Bill of Health blog and is a Lecturer in Law at Birmingham Law School in the UK and a Visiting Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law.
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Content ArticleA framework designed by Dr Jane McCarthy, Human Factors and Patient Safety Consultant, for the measurement and monitoring of safety in the COVID-19 second wave.
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Content ArticleUniversity Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) is setting out its priorities for the remainder of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and into the future. The pandemic has meant that certain plans have had to be put temporarily on hold but the Trust says there are important areas that can and will be developed over the next few months and into 2021. Quality and safety of care remain the main priorities so the Trust is now focusing on four key areas to ensure that services recover and improve as the country emerges from the pandemic.
