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Content ArticleSalford Care Organisation uses this great infographic on their wall to show patients and relatives what they may experience when on the intensive care unit.
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Content ArticleLiverpool is leading the way in the use of smartphone technology to deliver and monitor care in people’s homes. The city is the first to introduce a digital system with almost all domiciliary care providers – giving instant information about 9,000 vulnerable residents to their families and professionals. The use of an app allows care providers and families to see when a visit is carried out by a carer, for how long and how the person responded.The effect is better informed families and care managers and improved care. Liverpool is the only authority in Europe to be using the technology across its city, with all but one of its 18 domiciliary care providers using everyLIFE PASSsystem. It was made possible through a grant of one million Euros of European Union funding secured through the EU STOPandGO programme of which the Innovation Agency, the Academic Health Science Network for the North West Coast was a key partner.
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Content ArticleThe Tookie Vest is a patient and clinician driven innovation, designed to support patients fitted with a Central Venous Catheter (CVC) undergoing haemodialysis (HD) to provide enhanced line security. The Tookie Vest is designed to help prevent catheter displacement but also to aid the patients to continue to live ‘#ALifeMoreNormal’ as the vest helps to discretely secure the lines, offering modesty and dignity, freedom, independence and reassurance. The Tookie Vest was originally designed to prevent inadvertent catheter fallout in paediatric oncology patients, a product that was supported by the Yorkshire & Humber AHSN through funding and access to specialist clinical and design advice. The AHSN for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) have since provided support and advice via ‘The Innovation Pathway’ for the development of the adult HD vest.
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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 ArticleInformation for the Public pre-hospital emergency medicine (PHEM) feedback is a collaboration between the Princess Alexandra Hospital and the services who bring patients to them (ambulances and air ambulance teams) and provide pre-hospital care to those patients.
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Content ArticleThis guide from Public Health England contains information to help staff in public health, health services and social care to prevent falls in people with learning disabilities. It is also intended to help falls prevention services to provide support that is accessible to people with learning disabilities. The guide aims to be of use to family carers, friends and paid support staff to help them think about what risks may contribute to falls and how to reduce such risks.
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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 paper published by Mangar Health gives an insight into the costs, personal and financial, of falls and how simple investment of equipment in the right place at the right time could potential save lives and significant money.
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Content ArticleThis action plan was produced by the Ipswich & East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group and West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group following a treatment delay for a patient in intensive care.
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Content ArticleIn this lecture from the PHEM (Pre Hospital Emergency Medicine) Feedback Showcase, Gordon Patterson (Patient Representative for Resuscitation Council UK and Patient Representative for PHEM Feedback) describes his experiences as a patient who experienced an out of hospital cardiac arrest 15 years ago. With him is Jonathan Dermott, the paramedic who was called to rescue him and provide resuscitative care, and who since has benefited from following up the case. He describes the life-changing consequences of his care both as a clinician and educator.
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Content ArticleEpilepsy12 was announced as the winner of the 2018 Richard Driscoll Memorial Award for outstanding patient involvement in clinical audit at the annual Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) AGM in London. The submission from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) demonstrated Epilepsy12’s overarching goal to improve NHS healthcare services for children and young people with seizures and epilepsy.
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Content ArticleThis toolkit has been designed for staff in care homes and carers in the community. It provides a readily accessible and practical guide to help them assist older people in their care to achieve optimum hydration. It was developed through collaboration between Kent Surrey and Sussex Academic Health Science Network, Wessex Academic Health Science Network and NE Hants and Farnham CCG
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Content ArticleThis quick guide from the NHS explains what to expect if you need to stay in hospital for a period of time.
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Content ArticleAdverse events in the nursing home setting are common and often preventable. This qualitative study, by Tong et al., of home care patients and their caregivers, published in the International Journal for Quality in Healthcare, revealed concerns about safe care space and ability to address physical needs. These results demonstrate the need for continued focus on safety in home care.
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Content ArticlePatients with delirium have changes in their thinking and are often confused and cannot pay attention. About half of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) have delirium during their stay. Research has shown that patients with delirium are more likely to die or to have long-term brain problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental health issues, than those without delirium. Although nurses and doctors have tools to measure delirium in the ICU, it can be hard to identify and, in some cases, may be missed. Family members may be the first to notice that their loved ones have changes in their thinking or cannot pay attention. There are tools called the Family Confusion Assessment Method (FAM-CAM) and Sour Seven questionnaire that can be used by family members to detect delirium. However, neither of these tools has been used in an ICU. This study from Krewulak et al., published in CmajOPEN, shows that these tools can be used by family members to measure delirium in the ICU. The results from this study could lead to a change in policy that would involve partnering with family members to improve the diagnosis of delirium in the ICU. In turn, this would improve patient and family care and outcomes in the ICU.
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AHRQ: Warm handoffs improve patient safety
Claire Cox posted an article in How to engage for patient safety
In 2015, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) sponsored the development of a 'Guide to Improving Patient Safety in Primary Care Settings by Engaging Patients and Families'. One of the strategies introduced was a 'warm handoff' A warm handoff is a handoff conducted in person between two members of the health care team in front of the patient and family or caregiver. This video demonstrates warm handoffs in medical offices. -
Content ArticleThis 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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NHS Complaints Advocacy
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Complaints
NHS complaints advocacy service can help you if you, or someone you know, has not had the care or treatment you expect to receive from your NHS services and you want to complain. Advocacy is there to help you understand and go through the complaints process. Advocates will support you until you receive a satisfactory conclusion or until you no longer want advocacy support. -
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Dementia Safety Guidelines - Care Giver Homes (January 2018)
Claire Cox posted an article in Dementia
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. -
Content ArticleMedical errors can occur anywhere in the healthcare system: hospitals, clinics, surgery centres, doctors' offices, nursing homes, pharmacies and patients' homes. Errors can involve medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment or lab reports. These tips tell what you can do to get safer care.
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Patient information for surgical safety: WHO leaflet (2015)
Claire Cox posted an article in Keeping patients safe
This leaflet produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) is aimed at patients who are undergoing a surgical procedure. It aims to enable communication between you and your surgical team, including you in safety checks. -
Content ArticleA guide supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to draw on patient experience data to improve quality in healthcare.
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Content ArticleThis toolkit by The Point of Care Foundation is a step-by-step guide to improving processes of care and staff–patient interactions. It offers a simple way for organisations to show their commitment to patients’ experience while also motivating the staff who deliver that care.
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Content ArticleBased on the concept of safety advice given on planes before they take off, the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has produced a short film to help patients look after themselves during their hospital stay.
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Content ArticlePatient-centeredness is central to healthcare. Hospitals should address patients’ unique needs to improve safety and quality. Patient engagement in healthcare, which may help prevent adverse events, can be approached as an independent patient safety practice (PSP) or as part of a multifactorial PSP. This systematic review by Berger et al., published in BMJ Quality & Safety, examines how interventions encouraging this engagement have been implemented in controlled trials. It found that while patient engagement in safety is appealing, there is insufficient high-quality evidence informing real-world implementation. Further work is needed to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions on patient and family engagement and clarify the added benefit of incorporating engagement in multifaceted approaches to improve patient safety endpoints. In addition, strategies to assess and overcome barriers to patients’ willingness to actively engage in their care should be investigated.
