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Content ArticleThe rapid review was commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement, following concerns raised by staff at The Christie Hospital in relation to the Research & Innovation department. The review makes a number of recommendations and the Trust will be developing and action plan to address these.
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Content ArticleThis systematic review in the BJGP aimed to review literature published up to December 2020 on the prevalence of burnout among GPs in general practice, and to determine GP burnout estimates worldwide. The review found: there is moderate to high GP burnout around the world. substantial variations in how burnout is defined, which has resulted in considerable variation in GP burnout prevalence estimates. that this variation presents a challenge in developing a uniform approach that considering GPs' work contexts will allow better understanding and definition of burnout.
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Content ArticleEmployees—physicians and fast-food workers, teachers and hotel staff—are resigning in unprecedented numbers, often in distress. Managers are at a loss for how to respond. Attempts to address employee dissatisfaction and burnout with bonuses, mindfulness, and extra time off do not seem to be working well enough; employees continue to quit, sometimes angrily and dramatically, airing a range of grievances on social media. But what if the problem we typically call “burnout” is not just burnout? What if it is not the other “usual suspects”—depression or anxiety—either? What if it is something that may appear similar, but has a different cause and, if incorrectly addressed, can make individuals feel increasingly worse? Appropriately dealing with the epidemic of employee anguish and quitting requires correctly identifying its causes and using precise terminology to describe it. And while burnout is by far the most popular explanation of employee distress, in many cases, the problem might be a less known, but more insidious: moral injury.
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Content ArticleA letter to the Chair of the Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee expressing concern that written evidence provided to the Committee's “Coronavirus: Lessons Learned to Date" inquiry was not properly considered and opportunities to protect healthcare workers from disease were missed.
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Content ArticleEvidence submitted outlining the issues relating to the protection of health and care workers. It explains how surgical masks are not 'protective' against airborne disease and represent a breach of COSHH Regulations.
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Open Letter to the Chief Executive, Health and Safety Executive
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Letter outlining potential legal non-compliance by persons involved in issuing Infection Prevention and Control Guidance.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe Safer Healthcare and Biosafety Network (SHBN) is seeking input from occupational health managers based in the UK to support the establishment of a new annual UK national database of blood and body fluid exposures in healthcare workers.
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BMA Blog - PPE: A right to protection
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This blog for the British Medical Association (BMA) by Tim Tomkin looks at growing frustration among doctors that the national guidelines concerning the use of respirators in Covid-19 infection control are still not robust enough, and do not fulfil legal health and safety obligations. He highlights examples of trusts that have led the way in implementing robust personal protective equipment (PPE) policies to protect staff, and research that demonstrates that the use of FFP3 masks reduces infection rates in staff on Covid-19 wards. He calls for more to be done to provide adequate PPE for staff across the health service, including GPs.- Posted
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Content ArticleSurgical fires are a serious a patient safety issue. In this blog, Patient Safety Learning analyses a recent response from Maria Caulfield MP, Minister for Patient Safety and Primary Care, to several questions tabled in the House of Commons about surgical fires in the NHS, and outlines the need for further action to prevent these incidents.
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Content ArticleThis is the recording of a presentation given to the Bristol Patient Safety Conference 2021 by Annie Laverty, Director of Patient Experience and Anna Burhouse, Director of Quality Development at Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. It outlines the Trust's approach to assessing staff satisfaction and wellbeing and developing improvement plans based on feedback from staff. It focuses on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and highlights key measures that helped maintain staff wellbeing during the first wave in Spring 2020.
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Content ArticleHealthcare work is known to be stressful and challenging, and there are recognised links between the psychological health of staff and high-quality patient care. Schwartz Center Rounds® (Rounds) were developed to support healthcare staff to re-connect with their values through peer reflection, and to promote more compassionate patient care. Research to date has focussed on self-report surveys that measure satisfaction with Rounds but provide little analysis of how Rounds ‘work’ to produce their reported outcomes, how differing contexts may impact on this, nor make explicit the underlying theories in the conceptualisation and implementation of Rounds. This study found from Maben et al. found, where optimally implemented, Rounds provide staff with a safe, reflective and confidential space to talk and support one another, the consequences of which include increased empathy and compassion for colleagues and patients, and positive changes to practice.
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NHS Health at Work Network
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NHS Health at Work is the network of occupational health teams dedicated to ensuring that the NHS has a healthy, motivated workforce that is able to provide the best possible patient care. The NHS is the largest employer in the UK and aims to provide an exemplary occupational health service that is improving the health and well being of over 1.3 million NHS staff. NHS Health at Work influences and advises Government and other bodies about occupational health in the NHS. It also provides a gateway for businesses in the broader community who are seeking occupational health advice and support.- Posted
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Content ArticlePosters submitted to the Learning from Excellence Conference. The posters were grouped into three sessions, based on the topic of the poster and the session theme.
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Content ArticleNHS Improvement and NHS England presentation at the NHS Health at Work Network Conference on health and wellbeing in the NHS. View the presentation slides below.
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Content ArticleHealthcare workers have had the longest and most direct exposure to COVID-19 and consequently may suffer from poor mental health. Quintana-Domeque et al. conducted one of the first repeated multi-country analysis of the mental wellbeing of medical doctors at two timepoints during the COVID-19 pandemic to understand the prevalence of anxiety and depression, as well as associated risk factors. Rates of anxiety and depression were highest in Italy (24.6% and 20.1%, June 2020), second highest in Catalonia (15.9% and 17.4%, June 2020), and lowest in the UK (11.7% and 13.7%, June 2020). Across all countries, higher risk of anxiety and depression symptoms were found among women, individuals below 60 years old, those feeling vulnerable/exposed at work, and those reporting normal/below-normal health.
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Content ArticleAt the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust recognised that more staff would need to access psychology services. This case study shows how the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has implemented a psychological support service for its staff. Almost 1000 staff have been able to access psychological support since adopting new pathways as part of their overall health and wellbeing offer.
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Content ArticleThis white paper sets out the symbiotic relationship between healthcare worker safety and patient safety. It makes the case for a new focus on improvements in patient and healthcare worker safety, and on the relationship between them, to prevent safety incidents and deliver better outcomes for all. It has been published by the Safety for All campaign, set up by the Safer Healthcare and Biosafety Network (SHBN), an independent forum focused on improving healthcare worker and patient safety, including Patient Safety Learning and the Association of British HealthTech Industries.
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Content ArticleIt can be difficult to turn down requests to cover rota gaps. However, you must balance your own needs against those of the service discusses Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Partha Kar and Tharusha Gunawardena in this BMJ article.
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Content ArticleThis webinar from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors is about boosting organisational and personal performance by recognising, measuring and promoting wellness. It describes the development and application of indices to measure wellness using a 'Whole Life - Whole Organisation' approach. Topics include: Ways for organisations to improve key performance indicators such as sales, productivity, customer service, reduction in accidents, quality, safety/liability, people retention, absence, presenteeism and levels of engagement/motivation Access to new software and management intelligence to support and implement a 3D next generation organisational improvement approach New certifications such as Certificate in Personal Performance - Wellness Management Global Wellness Indices for Healthcare, Hybrid Workers, Hazardous Industries and Universities (staff and students) New research and development and the growing international community of organisations and people active in Performance – Wellness – Health
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Content ArticleResearch shows that peer support is an effective way to help healthcare staff recover when something goes wrong in patient care. The Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety has developed a toolkit that aims to help healthcare organisations create or expand peer support opportunities for staff. Each section of the online toolkit focuses on key elements of a successful peer support program - from gaining leadership buy-in to creating policies and collecting data.
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Content ArticleThis article in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety reports on the findings of a pilot programme to improve healthcare staff wellbeing. Between November 2018 and May 2020, researchers engaged five healthcare sites to take part in a pilot intervention. The pilot used evidence-based approaches to wellbeing including a comprehensive culture assessment, redesigning daily workflow and leadership and team development. The researchers found that healthcare worker wellbeing improved when: an integrated, skills-based approach was taken there was a focus on team culture, interactions and leadership workflows were redesigned to promote positive emotions. This study suggests that combining a number of these approaches at the same time can improve healthcare working environments and reduce levels of staff burnout.
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Content ArticleDisruptive and unprofessional behaviours occur frequently in healthcare and adversely affect patient care and health #care worker job satisfaction. These behaviours have rarely been evaluated at a work setting level, nor do we fully understand how disruptive behaviours (DBs) are associated with important metrics such as teamwork and safety climate, work-life balance, burnout and depression. Using a cross-sectional survey of all health ]care workers in a large US health system, this study from Redher et al. aimed to introduce a brief scale for evaluating DBs at a work setting level, evaluate the scale’s psychometric properties and provide benchmarking prevalence data from the health care system, and investigate associations between DBs and other validated measures of safety culture and well-being.
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Content ArticleHealthcare settings are inherently hazardous places, with very unpredictable and complex working environments. These hazards and risks not only result in a range of injuries and ill-health among workers but also jeopardise the safety of patients. The COVID-19 crisis has amplified the importance of ensuring that the healthcare that is provided is safe—for patients and health workers alike. A sufficient, and capable, workforce, is the foundation of resilient systems. Policy makers need to focus now on how to build and support an appropriate workforce to respond to future shocks. This includes health workers beyond the hospital—including those in community, long-term, and primary care. The safety of both patients and health workers should be protected through appropriate mechanisms to ensure the safety of protective equipment and sufficient supplies, appropriate staffing levels, training and support at the workplace. These governance mechanisms are even more relevant when policy makers face trade-offs between health, safety and economic concerns. This is part of series of health working papers from the OECD on the economics of patient safety. The preceding paper, focusing on Long-term care, can be found here.
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Content ArticlePhysicians, nurses, and other frontline healthcare workers have been celebrated in many countries as heroes for their work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet not everyone appreciates their efforts and contributions. Since the pandemic, there have been examples of healthcare personnel facing attacks as they travel to and from healthcare facilities. Sadly, violence against healthcare personnel is not a new phenomenon, writes McKay et al. in this Lancet editorial.
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Content ArticleThe NHS Staff Survey for England reported that almost a quarter of all NHS staff experienced harassment, bullying or abuse from colleagues in the last 12 months. Not only does this have a devastating impact on individuals and the teams within which they work, but it can have dire consequences for patient care. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh is committed to eradicating bullying and undermining from the surgical and dental professions. It has a number of resources on its website.
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