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Digital storytelling: Learning opportunity or reputational risk?
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In this anonymous blog, a member of NHS staff talks about their experience promoting digital storytelling to help staff members and the wider trust learn from patients’ perspectives on incidents of harm. They describe the conflicting pressures of leaders’ concerns about how these stories might affect the Trust's reputation and the need to be transparent with patients and staff.- Posted
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To coach or not to coach? Part 3 – by Dawn Stott
Dawn Stott posted an article in Good practice
In a new series of blogs, Dawn Stott, Business Consultant and former CEO of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP), discusses how coaching and developing teams can support patient safety and its outcomes. In part one and part two, Dawn looked at the strategies and coaching methodologies that can be used to develop individuals and to support patient safety, and discusses the indicators of improvement, prosocial behaviours and the importance of good communication to improve culture and, ultimately, patient safety. In the final blog of the series, Dawn discusses the importance of reflective practice and how it encourages learning and growth, and helps us to identify and address challenges.- Posted
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To coach or not to coach? Part 2 – by Dawn Stott
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Good practice
In a new series of blogs, Dawn Stott, Business Consultant and former CEO of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP), discusses how coaching and developing teams can support patient safety and its outcomes. In part one, Dawn looked at the strategies and coaching methodologies that can be used to develop individuals and to support patient safety. In part two, Dawn looks at how coaching can improve individuals, and discusses the indicators of improvement, prosocial behaviours and the importance of good communication to improve culture and, ultimately, patient safety.- Posted
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To coach or not to coach? Part 1 – by Dawn Stott
Dawn Stott posted an article in Good practice
In a new series of blogs for the hub, Dawn Stott, Business Consultant and former CEO of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP), discusses how coaching and developing teams can support patient safety and its outcomes. In part one, Dawn looks at strategies and coaching methodologies that can be used to develop individuals to be the best they can be. We all develop at different rates; having an external view point that supports your progress is something to grab with both hands. It is not about about how good you are right now; it is about how good you can be.- Posted
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Are you having to bite off more than you can chew? A blog by Sally Howard
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Content ArticleCalibration, defined as alignment between a person’s diagnostic accuracy and their confidence in that accuracy, is an essential component of diagnostic excellence. Miscalibration—the misalignment between a person’s diagnostic accuracy and their confidence in that accuracy—can manifest as either overconfidence or underconfidence and can have serious consequences for patient diagnosis. This resource about calibration from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is primarily aimed at individual clinicians whose scope of practice includes diagnosis. It focuses on processes involved in making a diagnosis and the outcome of giving an explanatory label to patients after these processes unfold.
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Content ArticleThe UK Covid-19 Inquiry is the independent public inquiry set up to examine the UK’s response to and impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, and learn lessons for the future. In order to fully understand the impact of the pandemic on the UK population, the Inquiry is inviting the public to share their experiences of the pandemic by launching Every Story Matters. It will inform the Inquiry’s work by gathering pandemic experiences which can be brought together and represent the whole of the UK, including those seldom heard. The output of Every Story Matters will be a unique, comprehensive account of the UK population’s experiences of the pandemic, to be submitted to the Inquiry’s legal process as evidence. This toolkit contains information and creative assets that can be used to encourage participation in Every Story Matters. Every Story Matters aims to provide inclusive methods for people to talk about their experience of the pandemic, so anyone that wants to share their story feels heard, valued, and can contribute to the Inquiry.
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Content ArticleThis article from Sarcoma UK was written by Dermot’s family to develop their reflections and recommendations on the recent publication of the Healthcare Safety Investigation (HSIB) report, Variations in the delivery of palliative care services to adults.
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Content ArticleDr Liz O’Riordan is a breast cancer surgeon who has battled against social, physical and mental challenges to practise at the top of her field. Under the Knife charts Liz’s incredible highs: performing like a couture dressmaker as she moulded and reshaped women’s breasts, while saving their lives; to the heart-breaking lows of telling ten women a day that they had cancer. But this memoir is more than just an eye-opening look at the realities of training to be a female surgeon in a man’s world. In addition to this high-powered, high-pressured role, Liz faced her own breast cancer diagnosis, severe depression and suicidal thoughts, in tandem with commonplace sexual harassment and bullying. And by revealing how she coped when her life crashed around her, she demonstrates there is always hope.
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Content ArticleSince retiring from his role in public health, Dr Bill Kirkup has focused on independent investigations into public service failures, including maternity services at Morecambe Bay and East Kent. In this podcast, Bill talks to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Rob Behrens about his career, what he's learnt during his investigations and how we can make more progress in improving patient safety.
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NHS Horizons: Complexity research
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Techniques
NHS Horizons uses SenseMaker to gather and analyse stories of real-time, day-to-day experiences to facilitate improvement in complex environments. SenseMaker is the complexity research tool that enables not only the mass data collection of rich and deep descriptions of people’s experiences, but also uses a framework incorporating “triads” and “dyads” to allow participants to categorise what their stories mean to them. The process starts with a SenseMaker survey (or a series of surveys) and ends with a Sensemaking workshop.- Posted
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WHO survey: Your story for safer care
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Patients, families and caregivers play a crucial role in the safety of healthcare, with the World Health Organization (WHO) stating that engaging and empowering patients is of the utmost importance for any health system to make sustainable progress towards universal health coverage. ‘Engaging Patients for Patient Safety’ is also the theme selected for World Patient Safety Day 2023. To both support World Patient Safety Day 2023, and create a mechanism to reflect patient voices for patient safety, the WHO is asking for patients to share their experiences with them through this survey. They are seeking stories about: avoidable harms near misses (patient safety incidents that had the potential to cause harm but were prevented, resulting in no harm) best practices in the delivery of safe care. The end date for submissions is Monday 14 August 2023 at 9.00am Central European Summer Time. Selected stories will be featured on the World Patient Safety Day 2023 campaign and the WHO Patient Safety Flagship website. A mention of the stories may also be included in the speeches of the Director-General of WHO and WHO’s senior management at various occasions, including international meetings, press conferences, or briefings.- Posted
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More than just physical blog
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This series of blog posts is written by a patient who experienced life-changing complications after surgery went wrong. In her posts, they explore the psychological needs of patients following healthcare harm, which are often overlooked during physical rehabilitation. "I believe that the emotional support given to the patient during those first few weeks can make a significant difference to their long term quality of life. That’s why I decided to write this blog, to give constructive feedback to help medical professionals learn from my experiences."- Posted
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Igniting your inner spirit – a blog by Sally Howard
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Content ArticleTo thrive and deliver the best healthcare, healthcare professionals depend on their ability to self-reflect and adapt their working behaviours. This skill is developed through self-awareness, an openness to alternative perspectives, proactively seeking feedback and a willingness to change behaviours as a result of reflecting. Transformative reflection is a type of reflective practice that can transform a person's sense of work-based identity, sense of purpose and how they work, ultimately influencing the collective wellbeing. This guide explains what transformative reflection is, how to create an environment in which it can take place and suggests formats and resources to aid organisations in encouraging transformative reflection.
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Content ArticleCommentary from quality and safety leaders on the persistence of adverse events in care delivery — and where health care organisations should go from here. Further reading: The safety of inpatient health care Constancy of purpose for improving patient safety.
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Content ArticleDawn Stott has worked in healthcare for many years. Her passion is customer care and service improvement. She has designed courses to support healthcare providers improve practice through capturing enthusiasm and sharing best practice. For the last thirteen plus years she has worked as CEO of the Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP), a healthcare charity that supports theatre personnel who work in hospitals. When faced with lock down, Dawn shared her thoughts and feelings, via regular emails with her work team. The result is a culmination of her musing, along with some impressions, observations and learning that formed the basis for her book.
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Content Article"One family told me their mum had only been waiting six hours on the floor for an ambulance. Only six hours. For a moment I thought this was a positive outcome. A patient in their 80s, lying on a cold hard floor for the equivalent of three quarters of my shift and I felt this was good patient care. Sadly, this genuinely was better than earlier in the year with patients waiting over 12 hours on the floor and an additional 16 plus hours in an ambulance. I cried when I got home about how far we’ve fallen." An anonymous junior doctor shares his experience on the NHS frontline.
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Content ArticleTransformative reflection is based on the idea is that people's perspectives on the world around them change when they reflect on new experiences that challenge their world view. NHS England (NHSE) says that reflection can be hugely valuable for patient care, staff morale and for doctors themselves. In this interview, Dr Alison Sheppard, a national clinical fellow who contributed a new NHSE guide on transformative reflection, talks about what transformative reflection is and how it can be helpful for doctors.
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Content ArticleIn this BMJ article, consultant in geriatrics and acute medicine David Oliver describes his experience of being an inpatient in the hospital he works in. He talks about how his three-day admission with respiratory syncytial virus and pneumococcus has given him a better understanding of what patients experience in hospital. He describes how lack of privacy, poor quality food and noise affected him during his stay as an inpatient. He also highlights that although all staff were professional and kind, they were clearly overworked and unable to focus on more 'minor' concerns that patients have.
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‘What the hell is going on when you can’t get an ambulance?’
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
In posts on two Facebook forums, GP Survival and Resilient GP, family doctors write anonymously, revealing their concerns about how hard they sometimes find it to get an ambulance to attend to a sick patient – and the risks that can pose. “I ended up in the back of a police car with sirens going with a stranger who’d had a probable stroke on the street. Category 2 ambulance hadn’t come after 45 minutes so flagged down a cop car. They bundled us in. “Emergency department full of waiting ambulances unable to unload and I eventually left him in the very capable hands of the stroke team. Terrifying how broken our system is and how many people had likely just walked past him before I spotted him from my car." “Our emergency care practitioner called an ambulance at 6pm on Wednesday 6 July. Very elderly gentleman. Off legs, urinary symptoms, not eating/drinking. Guess when crew arrived? This morning, Friday 8 July, around 10am – 40 hours [later]. And the ECP had to wait 35 minutes just for 999 call to be answered!” “I recently complained [to the local ambulance service] for first time ever when ambulance refused to take a very sick patient of mine into hospital that I’d assessed over the phone because ‘her obs are normal’. They weren’t but even if they had been the reliance on these alone, ignoring the medical background, the family history and my history was just wrong. “I then had to go out and see her, re-call 999 (with many hours additional delay) and she died after a few days in hospital.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 9 March 2023 -
Content ArticleSurprises in healthcare are common and can have lasting effects on clinicians. Steven Shorrock asked clinicians to reveal aspects of their experience with implications for learning.
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Content ArticleThe Covid-19 pandemic has thrown a spotlight on the treatment of NHS staff and their perceived value to their employers. An estimated two million people in the UK have Long Covid, including many thousands of NHS workers, so why do we hear so little about it? In this BMJ article, a doctor in the NHS who has Long Covid explains why he is disappointed by the collective silence and the lack of protections and support mechanisms in place.
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Content ArticleDr Freya Smith, a Specialty Trainee in General Practice, reflects on the sinister and toxic side of medicine, using the recent Paterson and vaginal mesh scandals to demonstrate how patients have been let down by the system. In an honest and personal account, she shares with us the horror and sadness she felt at learning of these scandals and how she aspires to keep her future patients safe.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Judy Walker, an After Action Review (AAR) expert, looks at how effective learning from disasters and incidents can restore hope and trust, offering long-term improvements to systems that have failed. She talks about how public inquiries, although they can seem frustratingly slow, benefit society when the relevant authorities ensure that learning is understood and implemented. She compares this to the impact of AARs, highlighting that people’s trust in the process is linked to their perception of the changes that happen as a result of the AAR. She outlines three steps that NHS providers should take to ensure the AAR process is effective in restoring hope: Highlight to all staff on a regular basis, the benefits that are being delivered due to AARs Ensure patients and family members are provided with specific information about how AARs prevent future harms Support the people who lead AARs to do so skilfully, so that quality is assured and staff can trust in the safety and value of the process.
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