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Content ArticleExpanding workforce capacity, and allowing staff to recover, is going to be fundamental in achieving the ambitions set out in the elective recovery delivery plan. To help support, protect and retain staff, this letter from NHS England details a number of high impact enablers that providers should consider implementing to help improve staff experience. It also sets out a number actions being taken forward at a national level with the aim of making the workload more sustainable for staff.
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Content ArticleThis standard operating procedure (SOP) for Leicester Royal Infirmary Children's Hospital outlines the process to be followed at times of increased pressure on services caused by increased acuity or activity in the pathway for non-elective care.
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EventuntilThis conference focuses on the delivery of ambitions in the newly published NHS People Plan, and wider priorities for the health workforce. It also takes place with: intensification of the recruitment drive for health and social care staff unprecedented personal and professional challenges for those working across the NHS in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Assessing what will be needed for ambitions in the newly published NHS People Plan to be achieved, including: improving health and wellbeing support for all staff tackling discrimination and fostering a sense of belonging adopting innovation in care and ways of working making the most of staff skills and experience recruitment, retention and encouraging previous staff to re-join the NHS plans for an additional people plan focussed on pay, based on workforce numbers and funding. Registration
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Content ArticleWhile improving over time, the outcomes for lung cancer patients were already dramatically below those with other cancers before the pandemic. This report from the World Economic Forum, is designed to help governments, health systems, healthcare professionals and others to come together to: understand the effect of the pandemic on lung cancer care address the immediate impact of the pandemic on lung cancer services ensure their resilience in the longer term so that we can go further than ever before to improve patients’ outcomes.
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Content ArticleIn advance of the second annual World Patient Safety Day on 17 September 2020, the theme of which is Health Worker Safety: A Priority for Patient Safety’, this blog from Patient Safety Learning looks at how staff safety relates to patient safety.
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Content ArticleThe scale of the challenge facing the NHS after the first wave of COVID-19 in England is only just coming to light. The NHS adapted at speed to redeploy staff, change estate configurations, reduce non-COVID-19 face-to-face appointments and redesign patient pathways. The deployment of the NHS physician workforce provides an insight into the NHS response. In the middle of May, 32% of Royal College of Physicians (RCP) members reported working in a clinical area that was different from their normal practice.By the start of June this had reduced by 10% to 22%, but that still means one-fifth of the workforce were working outside their usual area. This has knock-on effects for patients and the resumption of services. The RCP, in partnership with our specialist societies, has been working with NHS England to plan specialty-specific restart activity. This is based on different scenarios regarding specialty capacity across the country, and the impact of COVID-19 is being felt unevenly. Consultants in respiratory medicine and gastroenterology expect it to take 2 years to recover from the backlog created by COVID-19, while those in cardiology are expecting it to take 18–21 months. Providing accurate estimates and projections about what the next 12 months hold for the NHS is difficult, as we can’t be certain about whether there will be future outbreaks and waves of COVID-19. This report highlights just why it is so important that the government, the NHS and politicians openly discuss the significant unmet need in the patient population.
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Content ArticleHealth and social care faces a conflict between safe and appropriate staffing and the (government) directive to be cost efficient. In a time of clinical and support staff shortages, increasing demand for services and financial austerity, there is a need for a consistent approach to workforce analysis, benchmarking and planning across the health and social care to enable informed decision-making across finance, HR and nursing management to put the patient and their safety at the centre of all we do. 'Establishment Genie' is an online workforce planning, safe staffing and benchmarking tool. It has been co-developed and tested with more than 300 teams across acute, community, residential care, hospice and independent providers of care. This has been supported by input from NHSE, NHS Professionals, The Florence Nightingale Foundation, Safe Staffing Alliance, Royal College of Nursing, Health Education England, Queen’s Nursing Institute and academic nurse staffing experts.
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Content ArticleThe ‘Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care’ programme is a quality improvement (QI) intervention introduced in English acute hospitals a decade ago to: increase time nurses spend in direct patient care improve safety and reliability of care improve experience for staff and patients make changes to physical environments to improve efficiency. The objective of this paper, published in BMJ Quality & Safety, was to explore how timing of adoption, local implementation strategies and processes of assimilation into day-to-day practice relate to one another and shape any sustained impact and wider legacies of a large-scale quality improvement intervention.
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Content ArticleA written and audio commentary taken from the American news station, wbur. Dr. Ashish Jha discusses the emerging trend for hospitals to spend money opening hotel-like services and argues that too often patient safety takes a backseat to these marketing efforts.
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Content ArticleLearning from deaths of people in their care can help providers improve the quality of the care they provide to patients and their families, and identify where they could do more. A CQC review in December 2016, 'Learning, candour and accountability: a review of the way trusts review and investigate the deaths of patients in England' found some providers were not giving learning from deaths sufficient priority and so were missing valuable opportunities to identify and make improvements in quality of care. This video from the NHS Improvement national patient safety team is a guide for NHS trusts in England on developing and implementing learning from deaths policies within their organisations.
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How NHS staff handle acute pressure in A&Es (June 2018)
Claire Cox posted an article in Stories from the front line
In Wales, like in England, the government has come under pressure over the poor performance of parts of the service. The Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board is the largest in Wales. It also has the worst A&E waiting times and has been in special measures for three years. Its hospital in Bangor, Ysbyty Gwynedd, serves 193,000 people, from tourists visting Snowdonia to the many retirees who live in North Wales. In this film, Saleyha Ahsan, looks at how the department tries to cope with unrelenting demand for patient space. -
Content ArticleThis is the fourth annual NHS workforce trends report published by the Health Foundation. In it, they analyse the changes in the size and composition of the NHS workforce in England in the context of long-term trends, policy priorities and future projected need.
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Content ArticleLocum doctors are often perceived to present greater risks of causing harm to patients than permanent doctors. However, a study from Ferguson and Walshe published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine found that there is little evidence that locum doctors, including GPs, have a 'detrimental' pact on patient care delivery.
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Content ArticleWinter 2017/18 saw an unprecedented demand for health and care support services. Emergency departments bore the brunt of this demand. This report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) calls for wider action for health and social care services to work together. A joint approach will help the whole health and care system to manage capacity as demand grows. The same approach can encourage early and effective planning - for all periods of peak demand.
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Staff safety in the mental healthcare setting
Sarahjane Jones posted an article in Staff safety
I lead a team of multidisciplinary researchers who explore the power of routinely collected data for improving our understanding of patient safety. Our hope is that this insight will be translated into improvements in patient care. On this World Mental Health Day, there is an opportunity to reflect on the implications of harm to staff who deliver care to some of the most vulnerable patients in any healthcare system and what we might do to better protect them from harm. We recently published a study that focussed on staff safety in the mental healthcare setting and I'd like to discuss some of the findings in this blog. -
Content ArticleNHS Improvement has designed this programme to help trusts develop evidence-based approaches to effective staffing decisions, taking into account all elements that contribute to safe, effective care and great patient experience.
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Content ArticleThis improvement resource set out by the National Quality Board is to help standardise safe, sustainable and productive staffing decisions in maternity services. This is an improvement resource to support staffing in maternity settings. It describes the principles for safe maternity staffing across the multiprofessional team to ensure women and their families receive joined-up care appropriate to their needs and wishes. The purpose of this resource is to help providers of NHS-commissioned services, boards and executive directors to support their head/director of midwifery and other lead professionals in implementing safe staffing for maternity settings. NHS provider boards are accountable for ensuring their organisation has the right culture, leadership and skills for safe, sustainable and productive staffing.
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Content ArticleIn 2016, thirteen organisations from health, social care and local government came together to create the Developing People Improving Care framework, an evidence-based national framework to guide action on improvement skill-building, leadership development and talent management for people in NHS-funded roles. One year on, NHS Improvement highlight some of the work taking place, demonstrating the steps people are already taking to ensure systems of compassion, inclusion and improvement are at the core of the health and care system. They also set out plans for the year ahead and some of the steps you can take to learn more about the framework.
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Content ArticleEast Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust's agency spend on healthcare support workers (HCSW) was high and rising. This caused not only financial pressures but concerns about care quality. The trust set itself the ambitious aim of eliminating agency spend on HCSWs entirely.
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Content ArticleThis report by the Royal College of Nursing has been produced from the analysis of a workforce survey designed to explore the employment and role-specific training and continuing professional development (CPD) of registered nurses and unregistered support staff working in maternity services across the UK.
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Content ArticleThis project is led by the Department of Anaesthesia at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Northumbria University Newcastle. The aim is to co-design a fatigue risk management strategy at the Trust to help teams effectively manage night shift fatigue.
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Clinical radiology UK workforce census report 2018
Claire Cox posted an article in Safe staffing levels
The Royal College of Radiologists’ (RCR) annual radiology workforce report collected data and commentary from imaging department leaders from all 172 UK health boards and trusts that employ radiologists. The report highlights the UK’s current and predicted shortage of radiologists and urgently calls for more funding for trainees and improved retention and recruitment. -
Content ArticleThe Safer Nursing Care Tool has been developed by the Shelford Group to help NHS hospital staff measure patient acuity and/or dependency to inform evidence-based decision making on staffing and workforce. The tool, when allied to Nurse Sensitive Indicators (NSIs), offers nurses a reliable method against which to deliver evidence-based workforce plans to support existing services or to develop new services. The Shelford Group is an organisation comprising Chief Executives of 10 of the leading NHS multi-specialty academic healthcare organisations in England. The Chief Nurses of each of these NHS Trusts belong to a subgroup of the organisation and they meet every two months to share best-practice, benchmark and work towards improving standards in nursing.
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Content ArticleThis document provides information about NHS England’s and NHS Improvement’s funding in 2019/20. It sets out how NHS England and NHS Improvement will support The NHS Long Term Plan through distribution of funding, people and resources, to transform local health and care systems.
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Content ArticlePresentation slides from Salford University's Patient Safety Conference.
