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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 Model Hospital is a digital information service designed to help NHS providers improve their productivity and efficiency. It is an easy to navigate, free tool that can be used by anyone in the NHS, from board to ward.
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Content ArticleRichard Smith, former BMJ Editor and Chair of the Point of Care Foundation, finds out more about Schwartz rounds in this opinion article published in the BMJ.
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Birmingham University Hospitals Trust: Poster for staff going home
Claire Cox posted an article in Good practice
This poster from Birmingham University Hospitals Trust is aimed at staff leaving to go home after their shift. -
Content ArticleAn adverse clinical event, patient safety incident or medical error can have a far-reaching impact not only for the patient and their families, the 'first victims', but also the healthcare professionals involved. These are sometimes referred to as ‘second victims’. Often there are few opportunities for second victim healthcare professionals to discuss the details of incidents or events and share how this has affected them personally. The East Midlands Patient Safety Collaborative (EMPSC) funded the University of Leicester as part of their National Safety Culture workstream to develop a Second Victim Support Unit within the Children’s Hospital at University Hospitals Leicester to test whether models of support established in the US could be successfully transferred to UK health settings.
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Content ArticleThere is a growing body of evidence to demonstrate that health professionals feel emotionally distressed after a patient safety incident and there is an emerging recognition of the potential negative impact on both the health professionals’ health and on patient safety. The Canadian Institute for Patient Safety partnered with the Mental Health Commission of Canada to develop a new toolkit for peer-to-peer support programmes in healthcare. It includes tools, resources and templates from organisations across the globe who have successfully implemented their own peer support programmes for healthcare providers, and is intended for policy makers and regulators, administrators, managers, healthcare teams and peer supporters.
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Content ArticleThis extensive resource, by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, based on evidence and leading practices, helps patients and families, patient partners, providers, and leaders work together more effectively to improve patient safety. The Institute states that collaboratively, we can more proactively identify risks, better support those involved in an incident, and help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
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How can After Action Review (AAR) improve patient safety?
Judy Walker posted an article in Good practice
The NHS Long Term Plan highlighted several safety issues that need to be addressed: the fear of blame and retribution which curtails reporting and learning, lack of staff understanding of patient safety matters and workforce issues. This short article summarises what I have learnt about how After Action Review (AAR) can directly address the first two of these and indirectly impact on the third.- Posted
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#TheatreCapChallenge: Where’s the evidence?
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
PatientSafe Network in Australia has been promoting the theatre cap challenge across the world. By wearing your name on your theatre cap it can improve team work and patient safety. The PatientSafe Network is a registered non for profit charity. It has been developed by front line healthcare staff and is for anyone to use – patients, relatives, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, healthcare managers, equipment and system developers, insurers – who wants to improve patient safety. -
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Three ways to create psychological safety in healthcare
Claire Cox posted an article in Staff safety
How can leaders ― with or without formal authority ― create psychological safety in healthcare? In this short video, Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, describes three key actions to foster a psychologically safe work environment. -
Content ArticleStrengthening a safety culture necessitates interventions that simultaneously enable, enact and elaborate in a way that is attuned to the existing culture. Through a literature review of more than 60 resources, a Patient Safety Culture Bundle has been created and validated through interviews with Canadian thought leaders. The 'Bundle' is based on a set of evidence-based practices that must all be applied in order to deliver good care. All components are required to improve the patient safety culture.
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The Safety Toolkit for Emergency Departments
Claire Cox posted an article in Emergency medicine
The Royal College of Emergency Medicine has developed The Safety Toolkit which aims to describe the structures, processes and skills required for a ‘safe’ department. There are resources identified within each section to stimulate, provoke and challenge, as well as guide personal development. There are overlapping references and differing perspectives but the vision is of a resource for change and development. -
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Promote a culture of safety with good catch reports
Claire Cox posted an article in In health care
Near misses or good catches present organisations with learning opportunities. Using data comparisons run by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, this article by Wallace et al. highlights how good catch programmes can contribute to significant reductions in harmful events and offers insights from risk managers and patient safety officers regarding elements that are necessary to establish successful good catch initiatives and the culture to support them. -
Content ArticleAnalysis of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Catalyst Insights Council Survey on organisational culture.
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The STEP-up programme: Engaging all staff in patient safety
Claire Cox posted an article in Clinical leadership
Hamblin-Brown and Ingram, in the Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, discuss how Aspen Healthcare have reduced patient harm by engaging staff in ‘STEP-up’: a programme to improve the culture of patient safety. -
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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Patient safety: common misunderstandings (IHI March 2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Improving systems of care
What patient safety beliefs get in the way of preventing harm? In this video, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Frank Federico lists some common misunderstandings, including the tendency to think of the Institute of Medicine’s six quality aims for improvement in silos. -
Content ArticleThis document sets out the General Medical Council's (GMC) expectation that all doctors will, whatever their role, take appropriate action to raise and act on concerns about patient care, dignity and safety.
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Content ArticleEmpowering doctors to speak up when they have concerns is essential to making our NHS safer, say Peter Brennan and Mike Davidson in this BMJ article. They discuss how healthcare can learn a lot from aviation and other high risk organisations, particularly in how they’ve embraced and applied human factors, the importance of looking after ourselves at work, and reducing hierarchy.
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SHIFT to Safety - Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Claire Cox posted an article in Healthcare Excellence Canada
Established by Health Canada in 2003, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) works with governments, health organisations, leaders and healthcare providers to inspire extraordinary improvement in patient safety and quality. SHIFT to Safety is a major shift to empower staff with the tools and information they need to keep patients safe, at any level. -
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South Australian Patient Safety Report (2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in International reports
This is South Australia patient Safety Report for 2017. South Australia Health is committed to creating and maintaining a sustainable quality environment which provides services that are consumer centred, driven by information and organised by safety , by ensuring that: patients can get care when they need it healthcare staff respect and respond to patient choices, needs and values partnerships are formed between patients, their family, carers and healthcare providers up-to-date knowledge and evidence is used to guide decisions about care safety and quality data is collected, analysed and fed back for improvement action is taken to improve patients’ experience safety is made a central feature of how healthcare facilities are run, how staff work and how funding is organised. -
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Barriers to the Use of Assistive Devices in Patient Handling
Claire Cox posted an article in Assistive equipment
This study by Noble and Sweeney, published in Workplace Health & Safety, assessed barriers to the use of assistive devices in safe patient handling and mobility that contribute to health care worker injuries. -
Content ArticleThis Care Quality Commission (CQC) report focuses on why avoidable harm remains a persistent problem within healthcare.
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Content Article'Together we care' describes what Guy's and St Thomas' Trust. want to achieve over the next five years, what this means for patients and services and how they intend to get there. It is a framework to guide our decisions, and to help consider how best to respond to new developments.
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Building leadership for inclusion narrative 2019
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Boards
Inclusion is core to the NHS Constitution, yet it remains one of the biggest challenges that health systems face globally, nationally and systemically. In the face of a growing body of evidence, which demonstrates the critical role that inclusive leadership plays in ensuring that health and care systems operate most effectively for patients and public, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that leaders at all levels are equipped and capable of leading inclusively and effectively.
