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Content ArticlePresentation slides from Salford University's Patient Safety Conference.
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- Confidence
- Resource allocation
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Content ArticleThis report from NHS England on the National Maternity Review sets out a vision for the planning, design and safe delivery of maternity services; how women, babies and families will be able to get the type of care they want; and how staff will be supported to deliver such care.
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- Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
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Content ArticleThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) offers advice and templates on how to write a statement if your employer asks for one.
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- Duty of Candour
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Content ArticleThis video form Trent Hospital shows how using human factors can improve patient outcomes and how things go wrong in healthcare. Can you spot how systems and protocols could be changed here?
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- Training
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Content ArticleA guide produced by NHS Improvement to support maternity safety champions. Maternity safety champions play a central role in ensuring that mothers and babies continue to receive the safest care possible by adopting best practice. This guide outlines the role and responsibilities of maternity safety champions and suggests activities to promote best practice.
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- Obstetrics and gynaecology/ Maternity
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Content ArticleThe Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008, presents evidence-based recommendations on the preferred methods for cleaning, disinfection and sterilisation of patient-care medical devices and for cleaning and disinfecting the healthcare environment. This is an American guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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- Healthcare associated infection
- Risk management
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Content ArticleThis American report describes events involving dirty instruments submitted to ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization and other reporting agencies. It provides recommendations to improve reprocessing practices, with a focus on instrument decontamination and the cleaning that occurs before disinfection or sterilisation.
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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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- Post mortem
- Patient death
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