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Content ArticleRather than measuring how safe care is, the focus is often on measuring levels of harm in healthcare systems. This report by Healthcare Excellence Canada outlines findings from a research study which aimed to answer, “How safe is care from the perspective of patients, families, care partners, and care providers?” Through a literature review, interviews, focus groups and a World Café wthe study aimed to increase understanding of how patients and their care partners view safety. The Measuring and Monitoring of Safety Framework (MMSF) (Vincent et al., 2013b) was used to guide the study. The MMSF offers a broader, more comprehensive and real-time view of patient safety and helps shift away from a focus on past cases of harm towards current performance, future risks and organisational resilience. The report concludes that the MMSF represents a critical shift in how patients can enable safer care. Inviting patients and care partners to contribute meaningfully to safety will enhance healthcare providers’ view of harm and understanding of what it means to feel safe.
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Content ArticleThe NHS Friends and Family Test (FFT) is designed to be a quick and simple mechanism for patients and other people who use NHS services to give feedback. This feedback can then be used to identify what is working well and to improve the quality of any aspect of patient experience. This guidance sets out the requirements of the FFT and is intended to support all provider organisations that are required to deliver the FFT.
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Content ArticlePatients are increasingly feeding back about their healthcare experiences online and NHS Trusts are adopting different approaches to responding. This study in the journal Digital health aimed to explore the sociocultural contexts underpinning three organisations who adopted different approaches to responding to online patient feedback. The authors identified a range of barriers facing organisations who ignore or provide generic responses to patient feedback online and demonstrated the sociocultural context in which online interactions between staff and patients can be used to inform improvement. However, they highlight that this represented a slow and difficult organisational journey.
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Content ArticleThis report by the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) sets out what the CHI has found out about the involvement of patients and the public from more than 300 inspections and from its research into the topic. It discusses what CHI looks for when assessing patient, service user, carer and public involvement (PPI), examples of how organisations are tackling this agenda and messages for the NHS in taking PPI forward.
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The official voice of the Foundation for Patient Safety - CHILE, to spread knowledge and share advances in clinical practices, which allow us to provide safe and quality care, in all areas of health care, from high complexity to home care. Download the latest issue below. (In Spanish, but option to translate to English when you download.)- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Cambridge Elements series offers a comprehensive and authoritative set of overviews of different improvement approaches that can be applied to healthcare. Each publication explores the thinking behind them, examines evidence for each approach and identifies areas of debate. Publications available include: Design creativity Values and ethics Statistical process control Approaches to spread, scale-up, and sustainability Health economics Governance and leadership Workplace conditions Reducing overuse Simulation as an improvement technique Implementation science Operational research approaches Making culture change happen Co-producing and co-designing Collaboration-based approaches The positive deviance approach
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Content ArticleThe National Infusion and Vascular Access Society (NIVAS) is a multidisciplinary organisation made up of healthcare professionals with a special interest in vascular access and IV therapy. This white paper by NIVAS lays out evidence that having a nursing-led vascular access team in every hospital in the UK will improve patient safety, reduce workload pressures for other staff, and save the NHS money. Vascular access involves the use of devices such as catheters to deliver or remove fluids, blood or medication from a patient’s bloodstream. The paper examines the arguments advocating for Vascular Access Services Team (VAST) across the NHS, acknowledging the current pressures of restarting the NHS following the pandemic and the roadmap to reduce the elective waiting lists. It also outlines how integrating a standardised model of VAST into the healthcare systems of the NHS will benefit patients, the new Integrated Care Systems (ICS) and the wider objectives of the NHS.
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