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What is the General Medical Council (GMC)?
Claire Cox posted an article in General Medical Council (GMC)
The General Medical Council (GMC) work to protect patient safety and support medical education and practice across the UK. They do this by working with doctors, employers, educators, patients and other key stakeholders in the UK's healthcare systems.- Posted
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What is the Care Quality Commission (CQC)?
Claire Cox posted an article in Care Quality Commission (CQC)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) are the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve.- Posted
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What is NHS Scotland?
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Scotland
NHS Scotland currently employs approximately 140,000 staff who work across 14 territorial NHS Boards, seven special NHS Boards and one public health body. Each NHS Board is accountable to Scottish Ministers, supported by the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates. Territorial NHS Boards are responsible for the protection and the improvement of their population’s health and for the delivery of frontline healthcare services. Special NHS Boards support the regional NHS Boards by providing a range of important specialist and national services. All NHS Boards work together for the benefit of the people of Scotland. They also work closely with partners in other parts of the public sector to fulfil the Scottish Government’s Purpose and National Outcomes.- Posted
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What is NHS Improvement?
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS Improvement
NHS Improvement supports foundation trusts and NHS trusts to give patients consistently safe, high quality, compassionate care within local health systems that are financially sustainable. From 1 April 2019, NHS England and NHS Improvement came together to act as a single organisation.- Posted
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What is NHS England?
Claire Cox posted an article in NHS England
From 1 April, NHS England and NHS Improvement came together to act as a single organisation. Their aim is to better support the NHS and help improve care for patients.- Posted
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What is the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)?
Claire Cox posted an article in NICE
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance and advice to improve health and social care.- Posted
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Content ArticleAs the professional regulator of nurses and midwives in the UK, and nursing associates in England, the Nursing and Midwifery Council work to ensure these professionals have the knowledge and skills to deliver consistent, quality care that keeps people safe.
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Content ArticleEngaging with general practices during inspections gives valuable insight into their experiences. Feedback shows that although inspection reports highlight the areas of concern and risk that need to improve, practices want to know more about how to actually improve from a rating of 'requires improvement' or 'inadequate'. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) selected 10 practices throughout the country that had each made significant improvements from their initial inspection to their most recent, and whose overall rating had improved. These 10 case studies highlight some clear actions that other practices can use to help them learn and improve.
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Content ArticleThis short video describes how the staff at NHS Imperial College Healthcare are at the heart of patient safety and showcases some of the achievements of their teams in improving patient safety.
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Content ArticleThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) became operational on 1 April 2017. Their purpose is to improve safety through effective and independent investigations that don't apportion blame or liability. Although funded by the Department of Health & Social Care and hosted by NHS England and NHS Improvement, HSIB operates independently. It is also independent from regulatory bodies like the Care Quality Commission (CQC). By offering a new perspective and developing meaningful and influential recommendations, they aim to drive positive change at a wider level.
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Content ArticleA new medical examiner system is being rolled-out across England and Wales to provide greater scrutiny of deaths. The system will also offer a point of contact for bereaved families to raise concerns about the care provided prior to the death of a loved one. Acute trusts in England and local health boards in Wales have been asked to begin setting up medical examiner offices to initially focus on the certification of all deaths that occur in their own organisation. The purpose of the medical examiner system is to: provide greater safeguards for the public by ensuring proper scrutiny of all non-coronial deaths ensure the appropriate direction of deaths to the coroner provide a better service for the bereaved and an opportunity for them to raise any concerns to a doctor not involved in the care of the deceased improve the quality of death certification improve the quality of mortality data.
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Content ArticleThe Canadian Incident Analysis Framework is a resource to support those responsible for, or involved in, managing, analysing and/or learning from patient safety incidents in any healthcare setting. The aim is to increase the effectiveness of analysis in enhancing the safety and quality of patient care.
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Content ArticleThis is a competency based framework for patient safety set out by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
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Content ArticleToolkit to improve safety in ambulatory surgery centres helps ambulatory surgery centres in the US make care safer for their patients. Ambulatory surgery centres can use the toolkit to help prevent surgical site infections and other complications and improve safety culture in their facilities.
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Content ArticleToolkit for improving perinatal safety helps hospital labour and delivery units in the US improve patient safety, team communication, and quality of care for mothers and their newborns with an aim of decreasing maternal and neonatal adverse events resulting from poor communication and system failures.
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Content ArticleAbout 40% of patient encounters in primary care offices involve some form of medical test. Studies of primary care offices consistently show that the process for managing tests is a significant source of error and patient harm. This step-by-step guide can help you increase the reliability of the testing process in your office.
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Content ArticleResearch shows that when patients are engaged in their healthcare, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals in primary care settings work together as partners to improve care.
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Letter from America: Lift off!
lzipperer posted an article in Letter from America
I’d like to introduce my ‘Letter from America’, a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting fresh accomplishments in patient safety from the United States. The series will cover successes large and small. I share them here to generate conversations through the hub, over a coffee and in staff rooms to transfer these innovations to the frontline of UK care delivery.- Posted
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Content ArticleCaring for patients in their homes holds many potential benefits, yet the safety of care provided in the home has not received as much attention as patient safety in hospitals and other clinical settings. In this video, Chief Clinical and Safety Officer Tejal Gandhi provides an overview of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement report, No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home.
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Content ArticleProfessor Don Berwick, an international expert in patient safety, was asked by the UK Prime Minister to carry out a review following the publication of the Francis Report into the breakdown of care at Mid Staffordshire Hospitals.
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Content ArticleAnalysis of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Catalyst Insights Council Survey on organisational culture.
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Content ArticleDesigned and tested by the Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)’s world-renowned safety experts, the Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit can help you improve teamwork and communication, understand the underlying issues that can cause errors, and create and maintain reliable systems. IHI's Vice President, Frank Federico, helped develop the contents of the new toolkit. In the following interview, he provides an overview of how to put the toolkit to good use.
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Clinical Service Accreditation (CSA) introductory video
Claire Cox posted an article in Services
A video introducing Clinical Service Accreditation (CSA), how it can improve clinical care, how your hospital can become involved, and the resources, support and guidance available through the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP). Presented by HQIP CSA Clinical Lead, Roland Valori.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis blog from Eli Quisenberry, Director of the Kaizen Promotion Office at the Virginia Mason Medical Centre, discusses what makes up 'standard work' and how this contributes to patient safety. Eli partners with leaders, staff and teams across the medical centre, applying the Virginia Mason Production System principles as they work to transform healthcare and achieve the organisation’s vision as the quality leader.
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Content ArticleProfessor Alison Leary, Chair of Healthcare & Workforce Modelling, London South Bank University, delivers the James Reason lecture at the 2018 HSJ Patient Safety Congress on work force and safety and discusses the complexity of demand.
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