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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.- Posted
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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.- Posted
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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.- Posted
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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.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Secretary of State asked NHS England and NHS Improvement to develop a new strategy for patient safety as a ‘golden thread’ running through healthcare. They consulted the UK on a set of ideas in December 2018. They received 527 contributions from organisations and individuals (staff, patients and carers). This strategy is the result of the consultation.
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Content ArticleThe Institute for Safe Medication Practice shares key questions to help organisations assess their progress toward creating a Just Culture. They include results from the 2012 report on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture to provide a national snapshot of where hospitals stand regarding certain aspects of a Just Culture.
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Content ArticleProfessor Sidney Dekker of Griffith University speaks about why things go wrong.
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Content ArticlePresentation by Andrew Brent (Sepsis Clinical Lead, Oxford AHSN & Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) and Bethan Page (Oxford AHSN) in collaboration with Dr Matt Inada-Kim (Wessex AHSN).
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Content ArticleThis regulation has been put in place by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in 2014. The intention of this regulation is to ensure that providers are open and transparent with people who use services and other 'relevant persons' (people acting lawfully on their behalf) in general in relation to care and treatment. It also sets out some specific requirements that providers must follow when things go wrong with care and treatment, including informing people about the incident, providing reasonable support, providing truthful information and an apology when things go wrong.
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Content ArticleLeadership must nurture a robust safety culture to manage crisis. This article from Foy and Mallory highlights the importance of formal and informal communication mechanisms, management empowerment and responsibility, and dialogue across silos to enhance the safety of teams and patients.
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Content ArticleThis study from Landefeld et al., published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine, looks at the perceptions of healthcare providers about barriers to improved patient safety in the Indian state of Kerala. Five focus group discussions were held with 16 doctors and 20 nurses across three institutions (primary, secondary and tertiary care centers) in Kerala, India and transcripts were analysed by thematic analysis.
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Safety, experience, or both?
Claire Cox posted an article in Maternity
Is safety and a good experience two separate issues? This blog by Florence Wilcock, consultant obstetrician, discusses this issue.- Posted
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NES: Safety culture discussion cards
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Good practice
Safety culture can be described as our: 1. Values (what is important) 2. Behaviours (the way we do things around here) 3. Beliefs (how things work). Safety culture has been shown to be a key predictor of safety performance in several industries. It is the difference between a safe organisation and an accident waiting to happen. Thinking and talking about our safety culture is essential for us to understand what we do well, and where we need to improve. NHS Education for Scotland (NES) has adapted these safety culture discussion cards (designed by EUROCONTROL) to help us to do this. Follow the link below to download the cards.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors has issued today their White Paper on Adverse Events. This report states what good practice should be in incident investigation across all industries, including health and social care. The White Paper is designed to: 1. Help organisations understand a human factors perspective to investigating and learning from adverse events. 2. Provide key principles organisations can apply to capture the human contribution to adverse events. How organisations learn, and fail to learn, from adverse events is discussed.
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Content ArticleThis info-graphic by the Faculty of Pain Medicine is a safety checklist for Interventional Pain Procedures under local anaesthesia or sedation. This has been adapted from the World Health Organization surgical checklist.
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Content ArticleA significant number of people, who may or may not have been acutely unwell with COVID-19, are experiencing a prolonged and debilitating recovery at home. Symptoms and experiences of care seem to vary greatly among this group, sometimes known as the COVID-19 ‘long-haulers’. Many are finding comfort and reassurance through online communities, set up by and designed for patients who are struggling to get back on their feet.
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Content ArticleThis article, published in Drug Safety, Robust, argues that active cooperation and effective, open communication between all stakeholders is essential for ensuring regulatory compliance and healthcare product safety; avoiding the necessity for whistle-blowing; and, most essentially, meeting the transparency requirements of public trust.
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Content ArticleThis editorial, published by the Lancet, highlights that racism is the root cause of continued disparities in health and mortality rates between black and white people in the USA and a global public health emergency. It discusses what medical journals can and must do to help.
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"I know this is burnout. I didn’t want it to be. But it is."
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs
I have been honest in my blogs during the pandemic. I have been apprehensive, scared and, at times, excited to work in the pandemic. So why do I feel so low at this moment? I am experiencing feelings that I have not had before. I have thoughts of leaving nursing. Surely, I can’t be the only one? Why now? Why am I feeling like this? This blog is to explore why this might be.- Posted
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Content ArticleSeveral factors can compromise patient safety, such as ineffective teamwork, failed organisational processes and the physical and psychological overload of health professionals. Studies about associations between burnout and patient safety have shown different outcomes. In this paper, published by Medicina (Kaunas), a team in Brazil analysed twenty-one studies, most of them demonstrating an association between the existence of burnout and the worsening of patient safety. High levels of burnout is more common among physicians and nurses and it is associated with external factors such as: high workload, long journeys and ineffective interpersonal relationships.
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Safety Differently
Claire Cox posted an article in Suggest a useful website
Safety Differently are a safety news site, crafted by professionals and enthusiasts from various industries around the globe. They share innovative and critical safety ideas to empower a community of change-makers to make an impact and do safety differently.- Posted
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Content ArticleI wrote this editorial for the Journal of Surgical Simulation after delivering the keynote talk at the Homerton Hospital, London Surgical Simulation conference in 2018. It outlines how aviation approaches error and its use of simulation in training to deal with it safely and efficiently. Aviation Safety Management Framework and the extensive use of simulation is a safe, value for money tool.
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