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Content ArticleIn February 2022, we launched our Patient Safety Spotlight interview series to share stories and insight from people working on the frontline of patient safety—from patient campaigners and healthcare professionals to researchers and health and care leaders. For our final Patient Safety Spotlight of 2022, members of the Patient Safety Learning team share a personal patient safety reflection from the past 12 months and talk about their hopes for next year.
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Content ArticleThe Patient Safety Database (PSD), previously called the Anesthesia Safety Network, is committed in the delivery of better perioperative care. Its primary goal is to make visible the lack of reliability of healthcare and the absolute necessity to build a new system for improving patient safety. This year, PSD has also been involved in the development of the SafeTeam Academy, an e-learning training platform associated with the Patient Safety Database, which offers video immersive courses using the power of cinema to train healthcare professionals. This is the latest newsletter from PSD, featuring a wide range of content by safety experts across Europe.
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Content ArticleChief Product Officer Mark Fewster speaks with iTS Leadership’s Judy Walker on transforming your understanding through after action reviews. Digressions include paediatric care in the 90s, ‘Six Blind Men and an Elephant’, and learning to trust others.
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EventPerioperative practitioners have worked tirelessly to rise to the challenges presented in recent years, and now continue to face the challenge of managing record-breaking waiting lists. Theatre work is challenging. You’re on your feet all day, mentally engaged and, at times, emotionally charged. This study day gives you an opportunity to focus on your own health and wellbeing as well as the welfare of your patients. "If we look after ourselves, we can look after others!" Topics will include: Review of mental health wellbeing and how to optimise it Health diet and fluid intake The benefits of exercise Optional Tai Chi taster session The importance of sleep and rest Debriefing and feedback to prevent burnout and PTSD Menopause awareness Open debate: Achieving a work-life balance in a demanding perioperative role Book
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Key questions for boards: What to ask yourself and others
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Boards
NHS Providers provide a selection of example questions boards should ask themselves in relation to their role in improvement. These aim to help guide personal reflection, conversations between board members and in quality committees, with staff and with partners locally. This list does not cover everything you may wish to or need to ask, but is intended to help provide a starting point and overview of important aspects to consider.- Posted
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Standing tall in the storm, a blog by Sally Howard
Sally Howard posted an article in Leadership for patient safety
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Content ArticleAs Psychology / Human Factors advisor to the UK surgical patient safety learning group (CORESS), and having published on clinical excellence and patient experience issues, Narinder Kapur recently had the unique experience of being a surgical patient. The author discusses the gained insights and learned lessons that could help improve the patient hospital experience and also patient safety.
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Content ArticleThis blog for the High Reliability Organizing website looks at the implications of 'preoccupation with failure' for individuals and organisations. The author highlights examples of how preoccupation with failure, as first described by Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe, can improve outcomes and reduce costs in healthcare organisations and in other sectors. She identifies barriers to organisations engaging with the process, including reluctance to look for 'hidden failures' and poor communication.
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Content ArticleThe Point of Care Foundation have developed Team Time in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Team Time is a 45-minute reflective practice that is run and facilitated online and provides an opportunity for people taking part to share experiences of their work in health and social care. As with Schwartz Rounds the focus is on participants’ emotional and social response to their work. However, unlike Schwartz Rounds, the audience is limited in size and is intended to be drawn from an area/department of a health/social care site rather than from across the organisation. The audience will comprise colleagues who have ‘common cause with others in a specialty/pathway’ and consider each other colleagues in the work of that area. Please note that Team Time training is available only to trained Schwartz Rounds facilitators.
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Content ArticleWe have probably all suffered from imposter syndrome at some point during our career. Doubted our self and our abilities. However, if we aren't confident in ourselves and how we do our jobs it could impact on the patients we look after. Here are my tips on how to get to grips with your imposter syndrome.
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Content ArticleThe Patient Safety Database (PSD), previously called Anesthesia Safety Network, is committed in the delivery of better perioperative care. Its primary goal is to make visible the lack of reliability of healthcare and the absolute necessity to build a new system for improving patient safety. They have begun by developing an open and anonymous incident reporting system focused on non-technical skills. Each quarter they summarise in their newsletter cases reported on the platform. Read the latest newsletter.
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EventuntilThe uncertainty and anxiety that come with the experience of complexity can be overwhelming. It can be hard to think clearly and act wisely, and our wellbeing can easily suffer. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these experiences an everyday occurrence for many people, and the need for us to work clearly, wisely and healthily has never been more pressing. These Organisational Development workshops from the King's Fund will lift the lid on complexity. Together, you’ll explore how encouraging ourselves and others to understand and acknowledge the loss of control when faced with complexity can help us, our teams and our wider organisational systems survive and even thrive in conditions of uncertainty. The workshops will help you: make sense of the messy reality of complexity, accurately categorise different aspects of that reality and be able to choose appropriate, measured, responses understand your own preferences and strengths in relation to the complexity around you and develop strategies to stretch beyond them help yourself and others be their best during uncertain times. Join one or two sessions, or the whole series. Buy tickets
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EventThe uncertainty and anxiety that come with the experience of complexity can be overwhelming. It can be hard to think clearly and act wisely, and our wellbeing can easily suffer. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these experiences an everyday occurrence for many people, and the need for us to work clearly, wisely and healthily has never been more pressing. These Organisational Development workshops from the King's Fund will lift the lid on complexity. Together, you’ll explore how encouraging ourselves and others to understand and acknowledge the loss of control when faced with complexity can help us, our teams and our wider organisational systems survive and even thrive in conditions of uncertainty. The workshops will help you: make sense of the messy reality of complexity, accurately categorise different aspects of that reality and be able to choose appropriate, measured, responses understand your own preferences and strengths in relation to the complexity around you and develop strategies to stretch beyond them help yourself and others be their best during uncertain times. Join one or two sessions, or the whole series. Buy tickets
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EventuntilThe uncertainty and anxiety that come with the experience of complexity can be overwhelming. It can be hard to think clearly and act wisely, and our wellbeing can easily suffer. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these experiences an everyday occurrence for many people, and the need for us to work clearly, wisely and healthily has never been more pressing. These Organisational Development workshops from the King's Fund will lift the lid on complexity. Together, you’ll explore how encouraging ourselves and others to understand and acknowledge the loss of control when faced with complexity can help us, our teams and our wider organisational systems survive and even thrive in conditions of uncertainty. The workshops will help you: make sense of the messy reality of complexity, accurately categorise different aspects of that reality and be able to choose appropriate, measured, responses understand your own preferences and strengths in relation to the complexity around you and develop strategies to stretch beyond them help yourself and others be their best during uncertain times. Join one or two sessions, or the whole series. Buy tickets
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Quality improvement from the dining room table
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs and vlogs
Since her last blog for the hub, Claire has moved away from clinical practice as a critical care outreach nurse and has entered the world of patient safety management in a new Trust. Coming out of a second lockdown, Claire reflects on how her experiences working in the NHS are very different from the first lockdown back in March 2020 and the difficulties she's facing doing quality improvement from home.- Posted
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Content ArticleAppalling racial inequities in health exist in nearly every realm that researchers have examined. These inequities are a dramatic manifestation of the structural violence that plagues our society. Deborah Cohan, an obstetrician, gives her perspective on this in her article in the New England Journal of Medicine. "How am I confronting the underlying forces that facilitate increased suffering and death among certain groups because of their skin color? Although it’s necessary, it is not enough for me to provide respectful health care to pregnant women of color. If I truly want to be part of the solution, I need to explore those parts of me that are most unwholesome, embarrassing, unflattering, and generally not discussed in the context of one’s career." Her goal is to dismantle the insidious thoughts that reinforce a hierarchy based on race, education, and other markers of privilege that separate her from others. "These thoughts, fed by implicit bias, are more common than I find easy to admit. Although I know not to believe everything I think, I also know that thoughts guide attention, and attention guides actions. Until I bring to light and hold myself accountable for my own racist tendencies, I am contributing to racism in health care."
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Content ArticleThe Health Service Executive (HSE) Dublin North East’s Patient Safety Tool Box Talks have been developed to assist with the delivery of key patient safety messages within the workplace. Patient Safety Tool Box Talks© are not a substitute for formal training but rather recognises the need to embed patient safety into the workplace and as such are a support to formal more detailed training programmes. This approach allows the delivery of consistent short customised patient safety messages to staff in a brief intervention as part of a team meeting or at a shift change. The talks are designed to take no more that 5-10 minutes to deliver are capable of being delivered by a non-specialist. If questions however arise beyond the scope of the talk these should be referred to a specialist for clarification. This Tool Box also contains Guidance on Delivering a Patient Safety Tool Box Talk© and a number of talks on a variety of safety topics.
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IHI's Open School Short: What happened to Josie?
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Patient-centred care
In 2001, 18-month-old Josie King died of dehydration and a wrongly-administered narcotic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. How did this happen? Her mother, Sorrel King, tells the story and explains how Josie’s death spurred her to work on improving patient safety in hospitals everywhere.- Posted
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Content ArticleHave you ever been faced with an upcoming shift at work and felt an impending sense of doom? It comes as no surprise that doctors — real, human people — have a certain degree of anticipation, even anxiety, when it comes to taking shifts. Katie Townes, a physician and founder of Physician Lounge Online, shares her path to on-call acceptance.
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Faded rainbows
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs
As the colourful rainbows in people's windows are beginning to fade, is the public support for our frontline workers also fading? Has gratitude and thank you's been replaced with frustration and anger from the public? In her latest blog, critical care outreach nurse Claire reflects on the impact this is having on the wellbeing of already exhausted frontline staff. -
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Whistleblowing by Steve Turner (5 November 2016)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Whistle blowing
Steve defines whistleblowing as "To raise concerns; talk to trusted colleagues; rise it with the team; follow your employer’s and national policies / processes; involve managers". In this blog, he proposes that whistleblowing isn’t a problem to be solved or managed, but an opportunity to learn and improve. The more we move away from labelling and stereotyping the more we will learn. Regardless of our position, role or perceived status, we all need to address this much more openly and explicitly, in a spirit of truth and reconciliation.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe ideas and advice in this Improvement Leaders’ Guides from the Institute for Innovation and Improvement will provide a foundation for building and nurturing an improvement culture.
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Content ArticleRestorative justice is an approach that aims to replace hurt by healing in the understanding that the perpetrators of pain are also victims of the incident themselves. In 2016, Mersey Care, an NHS community and mental health trust in the Liverpool region, implemented restorative justice (or what it termed a 'Just and Learning Culture') to fundamentally change its responses to incidents, patient harm, and complaints against staff. This study highlights the qualitative benefits from this implementation and also identifies the economic effects of restorative justice.
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Content ArticleIn her latest blog, Sally Howard talks about psychological types and why understanding our preferences and how they differ to others, can be incredibly valuable. This knowledge can be used to strengthen teams, encouraging people to value diversity and work more effectively together. A particularly useful tool during these challenging times.
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