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Content ArticleA 14 minute TEDx talk by Niall Downey, a doctor and pilot, exploring how healthcare could modify aviation's approach to error for use in managing and reducing adverse events to improve patient safety.
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The sky's the limit (April 2017)
Niall Downey posted an article in Implementation of improvements
A brief summary produced by Frameworkhealth Ltd of the experiences aviation can share with healthcare from an author who has worked extensively in both. It outlines the three stage model used in Airline Safety Management Systems. Published in Northern Ireland Healthcare Review. -
Content ArticleSafety and Improvement in Primary Care: The Essential Guide is ideal for frontline clinicians, managers and healthcare administrators needing practical guidance on safety and is also highly recommended for improvement advisers, patient safety officers, clinical governance facilitators, risk managers and health services researchers wanting a critical review of theory and evidence. Primary care educators, too, will find much of interest in relation to designing and delivering training to help trainee doctors, established clinicians, managers and other colleagues meet the demands and obligations of specialty training, appraisal and revalidation, routine contractual requirements and continuing professional development. It provides reading for healthcare policy makers seeking implementation evidence on interventions for improving quality and safety at the professional, team and organisational levels.
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Content ArticleIncident reporting systems are commonly deployed in healthcare but resulting datasets are largely warehoused. This study, published in the International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, explores if intelligence from such datasets could be used to improve quality, efficiency, and safety. Results indicate that healthcare incident reporting data is underused and, with a small amount of analysis, can provide real insight and application to patient safety.
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Content ArticleAccess film footage of the recent 'Improving Patient Safety and Care' conference held on 13 February 2020 at the Royal Society of Medicine, London. All speakers and their presentations have been filmed. Past conferences can also be accessed. Govconnect's Open Access Library seeks to provide unrestricted online access to their events to ensure that key information is available to all health and social care professionals. All of their conferences are professionally filmed and broadcast so that content can be shared to a wider audience post event with the aim that as many people as possible can benefit from outcomes.
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Painful hysteroscopy and biopsy (November 2019)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Women's health
One woman's account, published by Care Opinion, of her traumatic experience of having a hysteroscopy. "At no point was any pain relief, sedation or anaesthetic offered to me or discussed at all." -
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NHS Improvement: Patient Safety Specialist
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in NHS Improvement
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy published in July 2019 set an ambition for all NHS staff to have a foundation in patient safety as well committing the NHS to developing experts to lead on patient safety in each trust. The introduction of ‘patient safety specialists’ is a key step in professionalising patient safety in the NHS. -
Content ArticleThis video has been produced by the staff at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It demonstrates how to prone an intensive care patient. If proning a patient with COVID-19, full personal protective equipment (PPE) will be required by all staff.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning has submitted the attached response to the NHS consultation on draft requirements for Patient Safety Specialist roles.
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WHO: What is patient safety?
Claire Cox posted an article in WHO
The World Health Organization has produced a factsheet about patient safety, what it is and the burden of harm. -
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A conversation with pathologist, Professor Peter Johnston
Claire Cox posted an article in Processes
As part of Patient Safety Awareness Week 2020, the Royal College of Pathologists speak to Professor Peter Johnston about preventing patient harm in laboratory settings. -
Content ArticleThe purpose of this document, from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors, is to provide health and social care teams with advice and guidance on the human-centred design of work procedures such as written instructions, checklists or flow charts during this period of 'crisis management' in response to COVID-19 and to support the design and re-design of care services and new ways of working. Implementation of the guidance will contribute to safer and easier to use procedures, which better support how people work and reduce risks to themselves, patients, carers and others.
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What are Patient Safety Collaboratives?
Claire Cox posted an article in Health Innovation Networks (formerly AHSNs)
England’s 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives (PSCs) play an essential role in identifying and spreading safer care initiatives from within the NHS and industry, ensuring these are shared and implemented throughout the system. The PSC is a joint initiative, funded and nationally coordinated by NHS Improvement, with the regional PSCs organised and delivered locally by the Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs). -
Content ArticleThere are 15 Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) across England, established by NHS England in 2013 to spread innovation at pace and scale – improving health and generating economic growth. Each AHSN works across a distinct geography serving a different population in each region.
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Content ArticleThe Tookie Vest is a patient and clinician driven innovation, designed to support patients fitted with a Central Venous Catheter (CVC) undergoing haemodialysis (HD) to provide enhanced line security. The Tookie Vest is designed to help prevent catheter displacement but also to aid the patients to continue to live ‘#ALifeMoreNormal’ as the vest helps to discretely secure the lines, offering modesty and dignity, freedom, independence and reassurance. The Tookie Vest was originally designed to prevent inadvertent catheter fallout in paediatric oncology patients, a product that was supported by the Yorkshire & Humber AHSN through funding and access to specialist clinical and design advice. The AHSN for the North East and North Cumbria (AHSN NENC) have since provided support and advice via ‘The Innovation Pathway’ for the development of the adult HD vest.
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Content ArticleThe Patient Safety Launch Pad training programme aims to improve patient safety skills in hospitals, GP practices, community services and mental health and care organisations in the region. It was hosted by the South West Academic Health Science Network and Patient Safety Collaborative, sponsored by NHS Improvement, and delivered through regional and national experts in patient safety and quality improvement. In this short video, patient safety leads and those working in healthcare discuss the success of the programme.
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Content ArticleSee the South West Academic Health Science Network's video from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Patient Safety Officer Training. This training was held over a week for clinical and non clinical staff to understand patient safety and what role they can play.
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OneTogether Electronic Assessment Toolkit
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgical site infections
This assessment toolkit enables automatic calculation of infection prevention compliance scores. The tool assesses seven areas of care that are fundamental to best practice in minimising the risk of surgical site infection. After each section of the assessment there are notes providing further instructions on how to complete each element.
