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Content ArticleThe risks of accidentally dropping a baby are well known, particularly when a parent falls asleep while holding a baby; or when a parent or healthcare worker holding the baby slips, trips or falls. However, despite healthcare staff routinely using a range of approaches to make handling of babies as safe as possible, and advising new parents on how to safely feed, carry and change their babies, on rare occasions babies are accidentally dropped. This safety alert was issued after a consultant neonatologist raised concerns about an increase in the number of accidentally dropped babies in his organisation. A search of the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) for a recent 12 month period identified; 182 babies who had been accidentally dropped in obstetric/ midwifery inpatient settings (eight with significant reported injuries, including fractured skulls and/or intracranial bleeds), 66 babies accidentally dropped on paediatric wards, and two in mother and baby units in mental health trusts. Almost all of these 250 incidents occurred when the baby was in the care of parents or visiting family members.
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Content ArticleThis reflection published in the International Journal of Integrated Care provides a perspective on front-line involvement of a patient and caregiver in a research project focused on integrated care.
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Content ArticlePresentation from the BMJ/IHI 2012 conference in Paris.
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Content ArticleThere have been repeated calls to better involve patients and the public and to place them at the centre of healthcare. In a paper published in BMJ Quality and Safety, Josephine Ocloo and Rachel Matthews explore the barriers, challenges and opportunities in involving patients in healthcare.
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Content ArticleThis DIY Health model was co-created by Bromley by Bow Health Partnership (BBBHP, Tower Hamlets, London) in partnership with the community it serves in response to a need identifiable across most general practices across the country. Parents of children under the age of 5 were frequently re-attending St Andrew's Health Centre (one of three surgeries run by BBBHP) for support with managing self-limiting childhood problems. These repeat visits led to a recognition that health care professionals needed to work better with parents and carers to identify how to provide knowledge and skills that ensure they were more confident to manage their children’s health at home, and when to seek further help. The model which this article describes was inspired by Dr Khyati Bakhai’s work during her Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership and was co-produced in partnership with local parents.
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Content ArticleBoth national and maternity investigations are showing a high level of family engagement through an inclusive and innovative model that ensures families have a voice throughout investigations. Here the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) demonstrate how they involve families in their investigations.
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Content ArticleBrighton and Hove Clinical Commissioning Group have produced this pack to support carers with undertaking the National Care Certificate and can be used as a reference guide for families and personal assistants to promote awareness of certain needs and encourage referral if concerns are identified. It was designed for care workers and carers as they are in the ideal position to recognise changes in an individual’s condition by monitoring them and/or recognising any deterioration in a person’s wellbeing. The booklet aims to increase awareness and supports the care worker/carer to refer on when appropriate. It highlights why different aspects of observation and care are important, what to look for and what action to take.
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Content ArticleGoing through critical illness and recovery is difficult for both patients and their relatives and will be unlike anything we've experienced before. Not knowing what's normal and what might lie ahead in the journey makes coping with things that much harder, which is why honest, accurate, patient-centered information is fundamental to the work of ICUsteps. Only people who've been through it really know what matters to patients and relatives in the position we were in. This understanding is what drives ICUSteps to produce a range of information resources that can help patients and relatives make sense of what has happened and cope with the road ahead.
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Coroner's case of Maureen Brown
Claire Cox posted an article in Coroner reports
This coroner's case, by coroner Emma Serrano, describes the events that led up to Maureen Brown's death at University Hospital of Derby and Burton NHS Trust. Maureen had an inpatient fall and died from her injuries. Could this death been prevented? How can we ensure the voice of the carer/family is heard, documented and acted upon in clinical practice? -
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NHS Mid and South Essex's 'We're Listening' leaflet
Danielle Haupt posted an article in Keeping patients safe
Danielle, Critical Care Outreach Nurse at Southend University Hospital, share's her 'We're Listening' leaflet as part of the trust's Call for Concern service. This leaflet will be displayed in all hospital areas. This service has been developed so that patients, friends and family can alert the Critical Care Outreach team if they have concerns that need listening to and gives a telephone number to call and outlines the next steps. -
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This poster has been developed by Dr Antonia Field-Smith and Dr Louise Robinson from the Palliative Care Team at West Middlesex Hospital. It provides a guide for communicating with relatives with compassion during the Covid-19 pandemic.- Posted
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In praise of NHS domestics: a blog by Adam's mum
Claire Cox posted an article in By patients and public
This blog written by Adams mum gives praise to the domestic staff that work with in our hospitals. She explains how the domestic staff were a source of support and company for Adam and the family when he was admitted. Adams mum is a mother an academic, lawyer and lay advisor. -
Content Article"Some weeks ago my main worries were around my GCSEs. Now I hear every day about deaths from COVID-19." Teenager Zoya Aziz's parents are both doctors. In this blog in the Guardian, she gives a frank account of her life at the moment and her fears.
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Content ArticleThis is a step-by-step evidence based guide by University of Oxford is designed to support all healthcare professionals faced with the painful task of contacting relatives by telephone to inform them that a loved one has died.
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Intensive Care: a guide for patients and relatives
Claire Cox posted an article in Resources for patients
This guide contains advice and information about intensive care. It tells you how critical illness may be treated and what recovery may be like. Not every patient will experience all of these things, but they are more likely to if they have been in intensive care for more than a few days. Most of this guide is written for patients but there is a section specifically for relatives and visitors. By reading the guide, relatives will learn what a patient's recovery may involve and it will give them the answers to some of the questions they may have. -
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#SharedHearts
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs
The Critical Care team at Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals has begun implementing a heartwarming idea, Shared Hearts, to support loved ones of patients.- Posted
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Melanie Whitfield, Associate Director of Patient Safety at Kingston NHS Foundation Trust, and Helen Hughes, Chief Executive of Patient Safety Learning, recently ran a workshop for Patient Safety Partners (PSPs) at the Kingston Trust. Here is a summary of the workshop. -
Content ArticleIf you have a relative with a learning disability who is at risk of behaviour that challenges, you may want to find out more about Positive Behavioural Support (PBS). PBS provides support for a person, their family and friends to help people lead a meaningful life and learn new skills without unnecessary and harmful restrictions. It is not simply about getting rid of challenging behaviour, but with the right support at the right time the likelihood of behaviour that challenges is reduced. The Positive Behavioural Support Resource for Family Carers has been developed with The Challenging Behaviour Foundation.
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Content ArticlePositive Behavioural Support is a way of helping people with learning disabilities who are at risk of behaviour that challenges to have the best quality of life they can. If you have a learning disability and behaviour which others may call challenging behaviour, these booklets have been designed to help you think about what having a good life means for you.
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Content ArticleIn this Episode of the 'This Is Nursing' podcast series, Gavin Portier speaks to Amanda McKie, Matron -for Learning Disabilities & Complex Needs Coordinator at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust. In this episode Amanda talks about health inequalities, mental capacity, advocacy and high profile key documents such as Death by Indifference, the LeDer Mortality programme and the current case of Oliver McGowan. Learning disabilities is a life long condition and they can present in any areas of health care. In this podcast we discover how important it is to have an understanding an appreciation and insight into the care experience of a person with a learning disability and their parents or carers.
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Content ArticleThis guide from Public Health England contains information to help staff in public health, health services and social care to prevent falls in people with learning disabilities. It is also intended to help falls prevention services to provide support that is accessible to people with learning disabilities. The guide aims to be of use to family carers, friends and paid support staff to help them think about what risks may contribute to falls and how to reduce such risks.
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Content ArticleCaring for people with learning disabilities in an acute hospital setting can be challenging, especially if that patient has transitioned from children’s services to adult services. The experience in children’s acute care differs to adult acute care; this difference in processes of care can cause great anxiety for the patient and their family and carers. The reasonable adjustments that were perhaps made and sustained in children’s services may now not exist. The purpose of this blog is to demonstrate the importance for services to be designed around patients’ needs with patients, families and carers. If we get this right, the quality of care given will be improved, patient satisfaction increases and, in turn, a reduction in patient harm. It is important to note that designing services around patients is not exclusive to learning disabilities; designing services with ALL patients at the centre with their involvement is crucial for trusts to provide safe care.
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Content ArticleThis policy is for patients and the public, and for NHS England staff. It sets out NHS England’s ambition of strengthening patient and public participation in all of its work, and how it intends to achieve this. The term ‘patients and the public’ includes everyone who uses services or may do so in the future, including carers and families. People who use health and care services may be referred to as ‘experts by experience’. NHS England recognises and values what they can contribute to its work as a result of their lived experience.
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Content ArticleThis toolkit by The Point of Care Foundation is a step-by-step guide to improving processes of care and staff–patient interactions. It offers a simple way for organisations to show their commitment to patients’ experience while also motivating the staff who deliver that care.
