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  1. Event
    This introductory course from AQUA is aimed at those who are new to Human Factors or those who are interested in refreshing existing knowledge. You will gain the fundamental knowledge and skills for Human Factors in health and care. Taking place online over two half days, this course will blend guided independent study with facilitated discussion and activities. You will be encouraged to apply your learning to your own role and environment, to reduce error, improve processes that underpin patient safety, and support organisational safety culture. Learning objectives: Understand the basic concept of Human Factors Understand the importance of Human Factors for safety and quality improvement Have awareness of what influences human and system performance Understand the basic concepts of systems thinking Who is this for? This programme is ideal for any staff who wish to develop a basic knowledge/awareness of human factors. Programme duration This programme consists of two sessions which will each last for three hours. Delivery methods This programme is delivered virtually through online sessions. Register
  2. Event
    This introductory course from AQUA is aimed at those who are new to Human Factors or those who are interested in refreshing existing knowledge. You will gain the fundamental knowledge and skills for Human Factors in health and care. Taking place online over two half days, this course will blend guided independent study with facilitated discussion and activities. You will be encouraged to apply your learning to your own role and environment, to reduce error, improve processes that underpin patient safety, and support organisational safety culture. Learning objectives: Understand the basic concept of Human Factors Understand the importance of Human Factors for safety and quality improvement Have awareness of what influences human and system performance Understand the basic concepts of systems thinking Who is this for? This programme is ideal for any staff who wish to develop a basic knowledge/awareness of human factors. Programme duration This programme consists of two sessions which will each last for three hours. Delivery methods This programme is delivered virtually through online sessions. Register
  3. Content Article
    Hospital nurse staffing, and the proportion of nurses with bachelor’s education, are associated with significantly fewer deaths after routine surgery, according to research published in the Lancet. A team of researchers conducted the study across nine European countries and found that a better educated nursing workforce reduced unnecessary deaths. Every 10%increase in the number of bachelor’s degree educated nurses within a hospital is associated with a 7% decline in patient mortality. Patients in hospitals, in which 60% of nurses had bachelor’s degrees and nurses cared for an average of six patients, had almost 30% lower mortality than patients in hospitals in which only 30% of nurses had bachelor’s degrees and nurses cared for an average of eight patients. The study shows that, in hospitals in England, an average only of 28% of bedside care nurses had bachelor’s degrees, among the lowest in Europe, which averaged 45%. The study shows that increasing the production of graduate nurses is necessary if the NHS is to realise the potential of lower patient mortality and fewer adverse patient outcomes.
  4. News Article
    NHS board members must speak up against discrimination, challenge others constructively and help foster a safe culture, under a new NHS England assessment framework. The new leadership competency framework, published today, sets out six domains which board members are required to assess themselves against as part of an annual “fitness” appraisal. Each domain (see below) contains competencies directors must exhibit, such as: Speak up against any form of racism, discrimination, bullying, aggression, sexual misconduct or violence, even when [they] might be the only voice; Challenge constructively, speaking up when [they] see actions and behaviours which are inappropriate and lead to staff or people using services feeling unsafe, or staff or people being excluded in any way or treated unfairly; and Ensure there is a safe culture of speaking up for [their] workforce. Each competency statement gives board members a multiple choice to assess themselves against, ranging from “almost always” to “no chance to demonstrate”. Organisations have been told to incorporate the six competency domains into role descriptions from 1 April, and use them as part of board member appraisals. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 28 February 2024
  5. Content Article
    This framework is for chairs, chief executives and all board members in NHS systems and providers, as well as serving as a guide for aspiring leaders of the future. It is designed to: support the appointment of diverse, skilled and proficient leaders support the delivery of high-quality, equitable care and the best outcomes for patients, service users, communities and our workforce help organisations to develop and appraise all board members support individual board members to self-assess against the six competency domains and identify development needs.
  6. Content Article
    Drawing upon the findings of a PhD that captured the experiences of midwives who proactively supported alternative physiological births while working in the National Health Service, their practice was conceptualised as ‘skilled heartfelt practice’. Skilled heartfelt practice denotes the interrelationship between midwives’ attitudes and beliefs in support of women’s choices, their values of cultivating meaningful relationships, and their expert practical clinical skills. It is these qualities combined that give rise to what is called ‘full-scope midwifery’ as defined by the Lancet Midwifery Series. This book illuminates why and how these midwives facilitated safe, relational care. Using a combination of emotional intelligence skills and clinical expertise while centring women’s bodily autonomy, they ensured safe care was provided within a holistic framework. 
  7. Content Article
    Boards and leaders of healthcare organisations are legally responsible for the performance of their organisation and must take definitive responsibility for improvements, successful delivery and failures in the quality of care. Board effectiveness relies on the ways in which board members translate their knowledge and information into quality and safety plans with measurable goals, maintain oversight on progress towards these goals and hold the chief executive accountable for these goals. This resource by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute lists tools available to boards and board members to allow them to understand their legislative responsibilities for quality and safety, conduct self-evaluation and understand the competencies needed to lead on quality and patient safety.
  8. Content Article
    Learn how to become a health systems analyst and use the science of ergonomics to improve patient safety and transform day-to-day working practices. Safety scientists play a major role in preventing unintended harm across many high-consequence industries, improving overall wellbeing and changing the culture of workplaces. Staffordshire University MSc in Human Factors for Patient Safety will teach you how to design applied solutions for health and social care settings. The course is ideal for existing health professionals – from both clinical and non-clinical backgrounds - who want to specialise in care safety, risk, improvement and system transformation and advisory roles. These highly transferable skills are also relevant to many other sectors. Find out more from the link below. Start date: 28 April 2024
  9. Content Article
    Plans to increase their number in England to plug workforce gaps have been criticised – but their work is valued by hospital colleagues. Sammy Chan is very proud to be a physician associate, despite the controversies. “I find it particularly rewarding because I get to build relationships with patients,” she said. Chan works in respiratory medicine, mainly in outpatients. As well as more routine monitoring of patients and booking scans, she has been trained to perform chest drains and to insert pleural catheters. “While it’s quite emotionally challenging, it’s nice to be a constant presence on their journey,” she said. Chan is one of 40 physician associates employed at the Royal Berkshire foundation trust in Reading. Introduced nearly two decades ago, physician associates have some medical training but are not doctors. They can take medical histories, carry out physical examinations and help develop treatment plans – but cannot prescribe medicine or order X-rays. The NHS aims to increase the number of physician associates working in England from about 4,000 to 10,000 to help plug widespread gaps in the workforce.
  10. Content Article
    That safety is paramount in healthcare goes without saying. There are though variations in patient outcomes between hospitals that cannot be explained by different population characteristics. Based on aggregate staffing data, a number of studies have shown that skill mix can be a factor accounting for these variations – essentially the higher the ratio of unregistered staff to registered staff the greater the incidence of adverse outcomes including mortality rates. Professor Richard Griffin explores this further in his LinkedIn article.
  11. News Article
    Physician Associates (PAs) and Anaesthesia Associates (AAs) will soon be regulated by the General Medical Council (GMC), improving patient safety and supporting plans to expand medical associate roles in the NHS to relieve pressure on doctors and GPs. The government will lay legislation this week to allow the GMC to begin the process of regulating medical associates, who are medically trained healthcare professionals who work alongside doctors to care for patients. The GMC will set standards of practice, education and training, and operate fitness to practice procedures, ensuring that PAs and AAs have the same levels of regulatory oversight and accountability as doctors and other regulated healthcare professionals. The regulations will come into force at the end of 2024. Physician Associates and Anaesthesia Associates are already making a great contribution to the NHS, supporting doctors to provide faster high quality care for patients. This new legislation paves the way for these professionals to be held to the same strict standards as doctors, boosting patient safety. Regulation and growth of these roles will support plans to reduce pressure on frontline services and improve access for patients. Health and Social Care Secretary, Victoria Atkins, said: "Physician Associates and Anaesthesia Associates are already making a great contribution to the NHS, supporting doctors to provide faster high quality care for patients. This new legislation paves the way for these professionals to be held to the same strict standards as doctors, boosting patient safety. This is part of our Long Term Workforce Plan to reform the NHS to ensure it has a workforce fit for the future." Read Press release Source: The Department of Health and Social Care and The Rt Hon Victoria Atkins MP, 11 December 2023
  12. Event
    Learn how the SIRO, CG and DPO should work together to ensure that organisational and technical measures are in place to protect the privacy of patient and service user data. Data Protection and Information Security measures and associated risk are considered risks mitigated where appropriate and reasonable. How legislation impacts on each of the roles. We will look at the roles and how they should work together and not in isolation. These 3 roles are referenced in the NHS Data Security & Protection Toolkit each having responsibility & accountability but there is synergy in the roles. These are important roles in assessing overall risks and issues of information sharing internally and externally. It will be beneficial for all three from an organisation to attend the course (although individual roles can attend) Register
  13. Event
    Learn how the SIRO, CG and DPO should work together to ensure that organisational and technical measures are in place to protect the privacy of patient and service user data. Data Protection and Information Security measures and associated risk are considered risks mitigated where appropriate and reasonable. How legislation impacts on each of the roles. We will look at the roles and how they should work together and not in isolation. These 3 roles are referenced in the NHS Data Security & Protection Toolkit each having responsibility & accountability but there is synergy in the roles. These are important roles in assessing overall risks and issues of information sharing internally and externally. It will be beneficial for all three from an organisation to attend the course (although individual roles can attend) Register
  14. Content Article
    These two Introductory Videos on Non-technical skills for surgeons (NOTSS) were produced by the University of Edinburgh in conjunction with the RCSEd for the ChM in Clinical Ophthalmology programme.  These videos introduce the principles behind the NOTSS system, and although they were made to accompany the ChM in Clinical Ophthalmology, they are suitable for all surgical specialties.
  15. Content Article
    Doctors should be taught physical examination skills that are inclusive of all patients, says Joy Hodkinson in this BMJ opinion piece.
  16. Content Article
    It is important that people who work in health and care are trained, skilled and treat patients and service users well. Regulators and accredited registers help to keep you safe by ‘registering’ health and care practitioners - you should check a practitioner’s registration when you: Pay for private services from a health or care practitioner. Employ a health or care practitioner. Commission services from a health or care practitioner. Have concerns about a practitioner. The link below allows you to search for a practitioner.
  17. Content Article
    We have had quite an eventful few weeks in the NHS in England, much of it not very pretty. There have been reports of a consultant dismissed from a Trust for raising concerns about safety, and, following a well-reported series of events, an experienced and essential clinician leaving the workforce. Then there were the events in Manchester where a nurse has been convicted of murdering seven children and the attempted murder of another six children. This despite the raising of concerns by not one, not two but seven senior clinicians. They faced the now repeatedly seen series of actions where they were not believed, faced counteraccusations and threatened with being reported to their regulators. Now we have the inevitable fall out, an incoming inquiry and, no doubt, the same or very similar themes to the many inquiries that have happened in the past. There has been much discussion about these events on social media, mostly focused on Lucy Letby, about patient safety, the actions that people should have taken and reasons why they did not. However, in this blog, I am choosing to look at things from a slightly different perspective, that of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). 
  18. Event
    This conference focuses on recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient and ensuring best practice in the use of NEWS2. The conference will include National Developments including the recent recommendations on NEWS2 and Covid-19, and implementing the recommendations from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Report Investigation into recognising and responding to critically unwell patients. The conference will include practical case study based sessions on identifying patients at risk of deterioration, improving practice in patient observations, the role of human factors in responding to the deteriorating patient, improving escalation and understanding success factors in escalation, sepsis & Covid-19, involving patients and families in recognising deterioration, using clinical judgement, and improving the communication and use of NEWS2 in the community, including care homes, and at the interface of care. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/deteriorating-patient-summit. Twitter @HCUK_Clare #DeterioratingPatient hub members receive a 20% discount. Email info@pslhub.org
  19. Content Article
    A patient safety partner (PSP) is actively involved in the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation. This includes roles in safety governance – e.g. sitting on relevant committees to support compliance monitoring and how safety issues should be addressed and providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and change – and in the development and implementation of relevant strategy and policy. NHS England has provided a description of the Patient Safety Partner role.
  20. Content Article
    Successful day surgery requires a day surgery team with the correct knowledge and skills to enable safe, early recovery and discharge but there is an absence of national guidance on supporting competencies. Applying in-patient competency criteria is inappropriate as this pathway is not aimed at promoting early discharge. This joint publication between AfPP and BADS (the British Association Of Day Surgery) provides recommendations for core competencies for adult day surgery through (1) admission, (2) anaesthetic room, (3) theatres, (4) first-stage recovery and (5) second-stage recovery and discharge. They are relevant for staff new to or after a long absence from day surgery and acknowledge some members of the day surgery team may include non-registered practitioners. All can be used as a reference for workbook competency documents in place or in development.
  21. Content Article
    AHRQ's TeamSTEPPS - Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety - is an evidence-based set of teamwork tools, aimed at optimising patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among healthcare teams, including patients and family caregivers.
  22. Content Article
    In July 2018, the then Minister of State for Health, Stephen Barclay MP, commissioned Tom Kark QC to write a report and to make recommendations in relation to the fit and proper person test (FPPT) as it applied under Regulation 5 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. The Tom Kark QC review of the fit and proper person test (the Kark review) was published in February 2019 and made seven recommendations on how to improve the operation and effectiveness of Regulation 5.
  23. Content Article
    An independent review of how effectively the test prevents unsuitable staff from being redeployed or re-employed in health and social care settings.
  24. Content Article
    Health Education England (HEE) commissioned the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) to undertake the development of a training programme to meet the medical needs of adults with a learning disability. The training programme consists of two modules and applicants are expected to complete both modules which will result in a post graduate certificate. The second module is under development but will be available in the autumn of 2023. Funded places for both modules are available.
  25. Content Article
    The first comprehensive workforce plan for the NHS, putting staffing on a sustainable footing and improving patient care. It focuses on retaining existing talent and making the best use of new technology alongside the biggest recruitment drive in health service history.
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