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  1. News Article
    Stroke patients should be offered extra rehabilitation on the NHS, say updated guidelines for England and Wales. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) had previously recommended 45 minutes a day. But it believes some patients may need more intensive therapy for recovery and is suggesting three hours a day, five days a week. Experts welcome the advice, but question how feasible it will be for a stretched health service to deliver. NICE accepts it may be "challenging", but it says patients and families deserve the best care possible. That includes help regaining speech, movement and other functions caused by the damage that happens to the brain during a stroke. NHS England has said increasing the availability of high quality rehabilitation is a priority. More people than ever are surviving a stroke thanks to improvements in NHS care, it added. Read full story Source: BBC News,18 October 2023
  2. News Article
    ChatGPT , the artificial intelligence tool, may be better than a doctor at following recognised treatment standards for depression, and without the gender or social class biases sometimes seen in the physician-patient relationship, a study suggests. The findings were published in Family Medicine and Community Health. The researchers said further work was needed to examine the risks and ethical issues arising from AI’s use. Globally, an estimated 5% of adults have depression, according to the World Health Organization. Many turn first to their GP for help. Recommended treatment should largely be guided by evidence-based clinical guidelines in line with the severity of the depression. ChatGPT has the potential to offer fast, objective, data-based insights that can supplement traditional diagnostic methods as well as providing confidentiality and anonymity, according to researchers from Israel and the UK. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 16 October 2023
  3. News Article
    A trust chief executive has warned of a ‘really significant increase’ in patient anxiety and frustration created by the ongoing doctors’ strikes. Lance McCarthy, the chief executive officer of Princess Alexandra Hospital Trust, made the comments during the most recent four-day junior doctors’ strike, which also coincided with two days of consultant strike action. The trust leader told Hertfordshire and West Essex integrated care board on Friday: “We shouldn’t underestimate the impact industrial action is having.” Mr McCarthy said this impact was not just confined to strike days but also affected the run-up and aftermath of each bout of industrial action. He said every series of strike days caused service disruption for at least another 72 hours. He said: “We are seeing increasing frustration [from] our colleagues around it, because we are constantly duplicating work, cancelling patients, rebooking the same patients, etc. “We are [also] quite understandably starting to see in the last two months a really significant increase in anxiety and concern and frustration from our patients, who took it quite well the first couple of rounds but are understandably really frustrated. It is having a really significant impact.” In a further statement to HSJ, Mr McCarthy reiterated comments that trust staff had noticed an increase in anxiety, concern and frustration among both patients and colleagues in recent months. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 25 September 2023
  4. News Article
    National leaders are looking to greatly reduce the number of direct hospital referrals made by GPs, by insisting that they first discuss cases with hospital consultants. The approach – known as “advice and guidance” or “A&G” – involves GPs sending a patient’s details to a consultant who specialises in their condition before making a referral. The consultant then advises on the best course of action. “A&G’ has been voluntarily adopted by many health systems, but HSJ has now learnt that a move to significantly increase its use of it is being discussed as part of a new national strategy for outpatient services, due to be published by December. Theresa Barnes, outpatients lead at the Royal College of Physicians, is part of a group of clinicians helping to develop the strategy in partnership with NHS England, and said there is a case for A&G to be used “in preference” to direct referrals in a vast number of cases where it is clinically appropriate. She told HSJ: “I think there should be a push to use advice and guidance in preference to direct referrals, so we can maximise that pre-referral interaction and deliver as much care as close to patients’ homes as they can get it and without the delay of potentially waiting for a secondary care appointment.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 20 September 2023
  5. Content Article
    Patient initiated follow up and remote clinical reviews show promise in alleviating capacity issues and ensuring timely care, with positive patient feedback and early intervention benefits Media interest regularly reports on the three headline performance measures of the NHS; 18-week target, cancer wait targets, and four hour waits in emergency departments. There is, however, another large group of patients that we do not have any targets for and receive no media attention, who Peter Towers, NHS service manager, has termed the “fourth group”. These are the patients who have started their treatment but cannot be discharged back to primary care as they require continued secondary outpatient care.
  6. Content Article
    NHS England wants to find out how people would choose to tell the NHS about things that go wrong in healthcare, to help the NHS do things better. NHS England wants to hear from people of all ages and backgrounds, who use all kinds of NHS services. They want to know how people would choose to give feedback if something went wrong in their care, or in the care of someone they look after, so the NHS can learn. NHS England will use what you tell them to help design a new online service to make care better. Click on the link below to find out more and take the survey. Closing date:  31 December 2023
  7. Content Article
    On 4 September 2023, England’s health and social care secretary Steve Barclay announced that the government was considering introducing 'Martha’s rule', requiring NHS hospitals to give quick access to a second clinical opinion in urgent cases. In this article, Clare Dyer of the BMJ looks at how the introduction of a formal system to allow patients or families the right to demand an urgent second opinion will affect doctors.
  8. Content Article
    Information from ADHD on the elvanse and atomoxetine drug shortage and what you should do.
  9. Content Article
    It is important that people who work in health and care are trained, skilled and treat patients and service users well. Regulators and accredited registers help to keep you safe by ‘registering’ health and care practitioners - you should check a practitioner’s registration when you: Pay for private services from a health or care practitioner. Employ a health or care practitioner. Commission services from a health or care practitioner. Have concerns about a practitioner. The link below allows you to search for a practitioner.
  10. Content Article
    In this blog, Dr Faisal Saeed talks about the patient-provider power imbalance using an AI generated image of two chairs to illustrate his points. 
  11. Content Article
    The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) and the Office of the Chief Allied Health Professions Officer (CAHPO) have launched three publications aimed at reducing misogyny and improving sexual safety in the ambulance service.
  12. News Article
    People who seek help for mental health issues should be asked about problem gambling in the same way they are asked about drugs, smoking and alcohol, new guidance has suggested. According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), those who visit an NHS health professional in England for depression, anxiety or thoughts about self-harm or suicide because of a possible addiction, such as alcohol or drugs, could be at a greater risk of harm from gambling. NICE said questions should be asked about patients’ gambling habits to ensure they could cope with their thoughts and urges. In new draft guidance, it suggested patients should be encouraged to assess the severity of their gambling by using a questionnaire available on the NHS website. Those who scored eight or higher should seek support and treatment from gambling services. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 5 October 2023
  13. Content Article
    Patient safety programmes form a large part of the AHSN Network’s work and patients play a central role in their development. In this podcast, Greg Stringer talks to four individuals about their contributions to patient engagement:Wendy Westoby is a stroke survivor and Heart Hero who campaigns to raise awareness of high blood pressure.Debbie Parkinson is Public Involvement Lead at the Innovation Agency and organises Heart Hero activities.Graham Smith is a patient who suffers from chronic pain.Natasha Callender is a Senior Project Manager at Health Innovation Network and runs a project to which Graham has contributed.
  14. News Article
    Millions of people wrongly believe they are allergic to penicillin, which could mean they take longer to recover after an infection, pharmacists say. About four million people in the UK have the drug allergy on their medical record - but when tested, 90% of them are not allergic, research suggests. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society says many people confuse antibiotic side-effects with an allergic reaction. Common allergic symptoms include itchy skin, a raised rash and swelling. Nausea, breathlessness, coughing, diarrhoea and a runny nose are some of the others. But antibiotics, which treat bacterial infections, can themselves cause nausea or diarrhoea and the underlying infection can also lead to a rash. And this means people often mistakenly believe they are allergic to penicillin, which is in many good, common antibiotics. These are used to treat chest, skin and urinary tract infections - but if people are labelled allergic, they are given second-choice antibiotics, which can be less effective. Read full story Source: BBC News, 28 September 2023
  15. Content Article
    The relationship between patients and their data is deeply personal. This report by The Patients Association shows that patients recognise that the potential for data use to improve care is huge, and that there is widespread support for realising this potential if patients’ concerns are acknowledged and addressed. It proposes the development of a data pact to outline the relationship between patients, their data and the health system. This could be a useful first step in informing patients about how data is used in the health and care system and a starting point in improving patient confidence. To do this, the pact needs to acknowledge that the system is not perfect, as one part of building public confidence is acknowledging the reasons why at present, confidence may be low.
  16. Content Article
    The adoption of virtual consultations, catalysed by the COVID-19 pandemic, has transformed the delivery of primary care services. Owing to their rapid global proliferation, there is a need to comprehensively evaluate the impact of virtual consultations on all aspects of care quality. This study aims to evaluate the impact of virtual consultations on the quality of primary care. It found that virtual consultations may be as effective as face-to-face care and have a potentially positive impact on the efficiency and timeliness of care; however, there is a considerable lack of evidence on the impacts on patient safety, equity, and patient-centeredness, highlighting areas where future research efforts should be devoted. Capitalising on real-world data, as well as clinical trials, is crucial to ensure that the use of virtual consultations is tailored according to patient needs and is inclusive of the intended end users. Data collection methods that are bespoke to the primary care context and account for patient characteristics are necessary to generate a stronger evidence base to inform future virtual care policies.
  17. Content Article
    This article in the Nursing Times looks at how a sincere and prompt apology, using appropriate language and tone, can help those involved come to terms with something that has gone wrong. Nurses may be concerned that saying sorry will make litigation more likely, but the evidence is that patients are less likely to resort to the courts if they feel they have been listened to and have been offered a "proper" apology.
  18. Content Article
    Overcrowding in the emergency department (ED) is a global problem that causes patient harm and exhaustion for healthcare teams. Despite multiple strategies proposed to overcome overcrowding, the accumulation of patients lying in bed awaiting treatment or hospitalisation is often inevitable and a major obstacle to quality of care. This study in BMJ Open Quality looked at a quality improvement project that aimed to ensure that no patients were lying in bed awaiting care or referral outside a care area. Several plan–do–study–act (PDSA) cycles were tested and implemented to achieve and maintain the goal of having zero patients waiting for care outside the ED care area. The project team introduced and adapted five rules during these cycles: No patients lying down outside of a care unit Forward movement Examination room always available Team huddle An organisation overcrowding plan The researchers found that the PDSA strategy based on these five measures removed in-house obstacles to the internal flow of patients and helped avoid them being outside the care area. These measures are easily replicable by other management teams.
  19. Content Article
    In this blog to mark World Patient Safety Day 2023, Patient Safety Learning sets out the scale of avoidable harm in health and social care, highlights the need for a transformation in our approach to patient safety and considers the theme of this year’s World Patient Safety Day, ‘Engaging patients for patient safety’.
  20. Content Article
    Recent polling from Healthwatch England shows that a fifth of patients referred by a GP for consultant-led care end up in a ‘referral black hole’, with more than two million patients each year having to make four or more visits to their GP before a referral is accepted. The result is that tens of thousands of patients could be on a ‘hidden’ waiting list, meaning that GPs are managing greater clinical risk and a greater number of patients whose conditions are often worsening in primary care, whilst communication between providers and access to diagnostics are often not up to scratch.  This report by the think tank Policy Exchange looks at reforms that could be made to the interface between primary and secondary care in order to improve care and prevent patient harm. It considers how improved flows of information and expertise can: better support growing demand in general practice reduce unwarranted variation in service provision enhance care coordination – particularly for those referred for elective procedures enable opportunities to boost generalist medical skills for a new generation of doctors create opportunities for hospital specialists to deliver a greater proportion of care in primary or community care settings, reducing waiting times and the use of more expensive settings for care.
  21. Content Article
    A series of podcasts from Molnlycke UK, with host Steve Feast, discussing topics such as sustainability, patient safety and more.
  22. Content Article
    A report has been published by Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW) setting out the findings of a review of patient flow in Wales. Patient flow is the movement of patients through a healthcare system from the point of admission to the point of discharge. HIW specifically examined the journey of patients through the stroke pathway. This was to understand what is being done to mitigate any harm to those awaiting care, as well as to understand how the quality and safety of care is being maintained throughout the stroke pathway.
  23. Content Article
    This is the first in a series of podcasts NHS England has produced to mark World Patient Safety Day 2023, and celebrate its theme of ‘engaging patients for patient safety’. The series features some of the Patient Safety Partners that work with the National Patient Safety Team, who play a vital role in providing a patient’s perspective to support our work to improve patient safety. In this podcast, Graham, who became a patient safety partner in 2020, shares his insights on the benefits of involving patients and why he feels it is so important in supporting the NHS to improve patient safety, and talks about his experience as a patient safety partner, particularly working to co-design elements of the medical examiner and medicines safety improvement programmes.
  24. Content Article
    The nurse-to-patient ratio represents the number of patients a registered nurse cares for during a shift. Most hospitals have guidelines to ensure safe staffing ratios, but staffing shortages have led to heavier nursing workloads. This article outlines which US states have laws and regulations in place for safe staffing ratios.
  25. News Article
    A high-profile government climbdown which legalised a type of cannabis medicine on the NHS five years ago misled patients, campaigners say. It was thought the law change would mean the unlicensed drug, which treats a range of conditions, could be freely prescribed by specialist doctors. But fewer than five NHS patients have been given the medicine, leaving others to either pay privately or miss out. The government says safety needs to be proven before a wider rollout. Legalisation of whole-cannabis medicine was hailed as a breakthrough for patients - giving either NHS or private specialist doctors the option to prescribe it if they believed their patients would benefit. But patients are being turned away, say campaigners, because doctors often do not know about the medicine, which is not on NHS trusts' approved lists. Some specialists who do know about it say there is insufficient evidence of the drug's safety and benefits to support prescribing. Senior paediatric consultant Dr David McCormick, from King's College Hospital in London, says it was "disingenuous" of the government to suggest in 2018 that NHS prescribing was ready to take place. "Parents were clamouring at our door, or phoning all the time, as they believed we were able to prescribe and that was not the case. "The message went out, 'doctors can now prescribe cannabis products' and that put us in a difficult position, because in truth we need to apply for that to be approved by NHS England." Read full story Source: BBC News, 13 September 2023
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