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  1. Content Article
    Kathryn recalls her personal experience of temporary paralysis and respiratory arrest after residual anaesthetic drugs were not flushed from her lines and cannulae following surgery. The video supports the Patient Safety Alert 'Confirming removal or flushing of lines and cannulae after procedures' issued by NHS Improvement in November 2017. More recently, the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) have carried out an investigation looking at the risks to patients when intravenous (IV) drugs are retained in cannulae and extension lines and made a series of recommendations.
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    Alison Phillips tells HSJ her story and why she's campaigning for the deteriorating patient and safety.
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    This guide is aimed at patients and carers who may be undertaking a social care assessment. Written by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE).
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    ReSPECT stands for Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment. The ReSPECT process creates a personalised recommendation for your clinical care in emergency situations where you are not able to make decisions or express your wishes. In an emergency, health or care professionals may have to make rapid decisions about your treatment, and you may not be well enough to discuss and make choices. This plan empowers you to guide them on what treatments you would or would not want to be considered for, and to have recorded those treatments that could be important or those that would not work for you.
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    This leaflet was designed by the Critical Care Outreach team in Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust. Call 4 concern was initiated by Mandy O'Dell, Nurse Consultant from the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. Call 4 concern was set up to enable patients, carers and families to escalate deterioration to the outreach team - to get their voices heard.
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    This case study written by Matthew Doyle and published by PSNet, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, describes a case of a patient in the US who was given a drug they were allergic to, the implications of this and how to mitigate future events.
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    How can you discuss obesity with your patients in a respectful manner? Many doctors feel uncomfortable bringing up the topic of weight since they are afraid of being rude. So how should you do it? In the fifth part of the low carb for doctors series, Dr Unwin discusses how doctors can talk about obesity to their patients in a respectful way.
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    This guide, written by Angela Stringfellow from Care Giver Homes, sets out how people with dementia, and people caring for people with dementia, can keep safe.
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    Pharmacy Voice’s Patient Safety Group has worked closely with the UK Medicines Information (UKMi) to further develop their risk assessment tool, which is used regularly in secondary care settings, to make the tool more accessible and valuable for community pharmacy teams. The Community Pharmacy Medication Safety Risk Assessment tool is designed as an aid in the systematic identification of potential patient safety issues associated with medicines before their introduction to clinical practice.
  10. Content Article
    This pledge card, produced by the Health Innovation Network, is designed to promote urinary catheter safety and good practice and, in turn, preventing infection. This initiative was part of catheter care awareness week. This pledge card could be used in numerous settings.
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    This document sets out the General Medical Council's (GMC) expectation that all doctors will, whatever their role, take appropriate action to raise and act on concerns about patient care, dignity and safety. 
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    The Dignity in Care campaign was launched in November 2006, and aimed to put dignity and respect at the heart of UK care services. The Dignity in Care campaign is led by the National Dignity Council, it operates as a charity, inspiring people to be part of a nationwide movement of champions, working individually and collectively to promote access to dignity as a human right for all.  Before the Dignity in Care campaign launched, numerous focus groups took place around he country to find out what Dignity in Care meant to people. The issues raised at these events resulted in the development of the 10 Point Dignity Challenge (now the 10 Dignity Do's). The challenge describes values and actions that high quality services that respect people's dignity.
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    Which? magazine explores ways to keep people safe in their homes and outside by using electronic devices to alert others for assistance. Personal alarms allow people to call for assistance if they have an accident or a fall at home. They can help older and less abled people to feel safer at home, and to remain independent for longer. They can also offer peace of mind to family and friends.
  14. Content Article
    Health 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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    Despite recent policy recommendations advocating the use of health apps in routine clinical practice, they are rarely recommended to patients by healthcare professionals in practice. To find out why, ORCHA (Organisation for the Review of Care and Health Applications) conducted its first study of healthcare professionals’ views regarding digital health, published in the Lancet Digital Health. Conducting in-depth interviews followed by a quantitative survey with healthcare professionals, ORCHA discovered what is most important, of some importance and of limited influence to healthcare professionals when considering recommending a health app to patients.
  16. Content Article
    This review by the Care Quality Commission included a sample of 74 investigation reports from 24 NHS acute hospital trusts, representing 15% of the 159 acute trusts in England.
  17. Content Article
    Published 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.
  18. Content Article
    Patient-controlled personal health records facilitate coordinated management of chronic disease through improved communications among, and about, patients across professional and organisational boundaries. An NHS foundation trust hospital has used 'Patients Know Best' (PKB) to support self-management in patients with inflammatory bowel disease; this paper published in Digital Health presents a case study of usage.
  19. Content Article
    In this blog, Dr Amir Hannan, GP, describes how it’s normal for patients to access their electronic health records and easy for them to understand them at Haughton Thornley Medical Centres.
  20. Content Article
    Based on a previous ‘Hospital Passport’ this version is designed to be used by everyone within a variety of care settings. The content was developed together by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Acute Liaison, Specialist Therapies and Older Adults services, Royal Surrey County Hospital and the Surrey Alzheimer’s Association.
  21. Content Article
    Age UK explain what Telecare is and how it could help you live independently and stay in control of your health and wellbeing. 
  22. Content Article
    Powerful bog written by Alison Cameron about her experiences as a patient on a mental health unit.
  23. Content Article
    Call 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.
  24. Content Article
    A guide from The Point of Care Foundation supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to understand how to use online patient feedback to improve quality in healthcare.
  25. Content Article
    Blog by critical care outreach sister, Claire Cox, on a typical night shift and how it led her to the Darzi Fellowship.
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