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Do masks work? Why do some people claim they don’t work? Do they cause harm? What kinds of masks should we wear? How does masking need to change now we know that Covid is airborne? When can we stop wearing them? In this long-read Twitter thread Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, outlines the data. -
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The European Biosafety Network (EBN) commissioned a survey to understand whether, why and how there has been a change in the number, type and location of sharps injuries as a result of the COVID pandemic. The survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI in March/April 2021, included 80 of the largest hospitals in Europe, in Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Italy, covering more than 300,000 healthcare workers. Findings showed that the number of sharps injuries has risen significantly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with an average reported increase of 23% over the last year (an estimated increase of 276,000 sharps injuries). This presentation highlights several contributing factors including: Increased pressure/stress Lack of safety devices PPE Covid vaccination rollout. You can access the full presentation summarising the research by downloading the attached document. -
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Staff safety and wellbeing
Becky T posted an article in Staff safety
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An original article that explores the significance of both staff physical safety in the workplace as well as their psychological safety and wellbeing. In particular, I highlight the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on both these areas, and discuss the importance of ensuring all aspects of staff safety. -
Content ArticleThis article describes how healthcare workers contracted Covid-19 through occupational exposure. The authors discuss how taking appropriate precautions, following primary and secondary prevention protocols and implementing proper control measures is needed to help contain the rate of infections. The authors also express how lessons need to be learned from previous outbreaks and that vigilance, protection and preventative measures need to remain in place in preparation for any future variants.
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Content ArticleThis article considers the definition of a just culture and identifies the key elements associated with this. It then goes on to discuss tools and resources that may be beneficial for leaders who are seeking to create a just culture for staff safety in the perioperative setting.
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Freedom to Speak Up News June 2021 issue
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Speak Up Guardians
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Content ArticleThis systematic review, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, looks at different support resources in healthcare organisation that are available to healthcare professionals who have been involved in a patient safety incident. The authors identify a range of challenges to the implementation of these, including persistent blame culture, limited awareness of program availability, and lack of financial resources.
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What psychological safety is not
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Staff safety
In this article, the author describes what psychological safety is, but how it is often misinterpreted and misapplied by organisations. The article details how psychological safety should be apolitical and enable for a person to be included, learn, contribute and challenge the status quo. -
Content ArticleIn this webinar recording Tim McDonald, Chief Patient Safety and Risk Officer at RLDatix, and Phil Taylor, Chief Product Officer at RLDatix, describe a paradigm shift in the approach to preventing and responding to patient harm that includes establishment of a psychologically safe culture and management of harm that includes the benefits of providing effective empathic peer support for health care workers involved in harm events. They also emphasise the importance of the need to integrate the concepts of high reliability and human factors safety science into these compassionate patient safety efforts.
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Content ArticlePsychological safety (speaking up about ideas and concerns, free from interpersonal risk) is essential in high-risk environments, such as healthcare settings. This study, Enhancing psychological safety in mental health services, considers this issue within the context of mental health services. It provides an overview of the types of strategies and interventions for increasing the ethos of psychological safety and setting the foundations for delivering an organisation-wide programme on this topic. It also lists of key targeted areas in mental health that would maximally benefit from increasing psychological safety, both in clinical and non-clinical settings. Psychological safety as a cornerstone of improvement: blog by Joe Rafferty, Mersey Care Psychological safety and the critical role of leadership development (McKinsey and Company) The role of psychological safety in diversity and inclusion (Amy Edmondson) Three ways to create psychological safety in healthcare (Institute for Healthcare Improvement)
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Content ArticleThis set of slides, developed by Dr Gillian Higgins for MedSupplyDrive UK, can be used by health and social care workers to advocate for better PPE protection locally.
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Content ArticleWorkforce burnout and resilience in the NHS and social care report describes the causes and effects of burnout among staff working within the National Health Service as well as the impact of Covid-19 on burnout.
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Content ArticleInterventions to decrease burnout and increase well-being in health care workers (HCWs) and improve organizational safety culture are urgently needed. This study from Sexton et al. was conducted to determine the association between Positive Leadership WalkRounds (PosWR), an organizational practice in which leaders conduct rounds and ask staff about what is going well, and HCW well-being and organizational safety culture.
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Approximately 1,000[1] UK health and care workers have died from Covid-19. Many were working with Covid-positive patients and with substandard Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). It is estimated that a further 122,000 health service workers who contracted Covid-19 are struggling with prolonged symptoms, often referred to as Long Covid. It has also become clear that a significant number of inpatients who had Covid-19, acquired the virus whilst in hospital.[2][3] In this opinion piece, Dr David Tomlinson argues that current PPE guidance still fails to adequately protect staff and patients against the airborne nature of the Covid-19 virus. David highlights the attempts made by many to raise their related safety concerns; arguing that the response to date has been inadequate, unsafe and unlawful. -
Content ArticleBOB.health is a UK learning platform. Usually, content is only accessible to NHS staff, Academic Health and Science Networks and other verified and approved non-commercial organisations serving the NHS to ensure BOB remains a safe space to share. Given the importance of this topic and with Dr Obaro’s blessing, Bob.health has chosen to make this particular story accessible to readers beyond the NHS and the UK. "My impact story describes how I created the presentation, "Why I want to talk about racism" and how I approached sharing my experience and insight with colleagues. To date, the talk has been viewed over 4400 times and the far-reaching impact has been worth the journey it took to create. Talking about racism is painful, uncomfortable, and challenging but by tackling it, I hope we can make the NHS more equitable for staff and patients." Follow the link below to request access to the full impact story.
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NHS Wales. COVID-19 and Workplaces: Information and guidance
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Guidance
This page from NHS Wales signposts employers and employees to key information and guidance for workplaces which will assist in taking appropriate action upon returning to the workplace, to prevent transmission of COVID-19 and provide relevant sector specific guidance. Documents found on this page will also be particularly useful for employers experiencing clusters of cases that may be associated with their workplace. -
Content ArticleJoe Rafferty, Chief Executive of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, explains Mersey Care's strategy to pursue 'perfect care' and why it requires a cultural shift that is dependent on a paradigm shift in mind-set, behaviour and practice.
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Content ArticleThe serious and growing workforce crisis in the NHS and social care is the biggest, most pressing threat to the viability of services for people who need them. COVID-19, Brexit, and points based immigration rules have accelerated issues around recruitment, retention, workload, and wellbeing that were already affecting the workforce even before the pandemic. What we need is a relentless focus on implementing solutions, resourcing them properly, and reporting progress, writes David Oliver in this BMJ article.
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Content ArticleA recent survey has found that one in four doctors in the NHS are so tired that their ability to treat patients has become impaired. In this Guardian article, doctors reveal how tiredness, fatigue and sleep deprivation are affecting their ability to provide the best care for patients in the NHS.
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Content ArticleThis guidance from the Care Quality Commission is aimed at adult social care services managers and staff. It explains the care needs associated with type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
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Content ArticleThe National Care Forum (NCF) represents not-for-profit organisations providing care and support services to adults in the UK. The NCF conducted a survey of its members over a five day period from 5-10 January 2022, considering the impact of the Covid-19 Omicron variant. Its results highlighted increased pressure faced by the care sector in this period, with staff absence being compounded by existing high vacancy rates and difficulties and delays with testing.
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Content ArticleBurnout is a serious problem for clinicians as well as the patients who rely on them for safe care, and the challenge has only been compounded by the stresses and trauma of the pandemic. A recent study by Pearl et al. showed that healthcare administrators could use a single survey item to see how their clinicians are doing. The question it asked was, “Are there individuals at your work location who are so burned out that the quality or safety of research, clinical care, or other important work product is impacted?” The respondents’ perception of the impact of burnout on quality safety of healthcare was self-reported using a 5-point system, ranging from 1 (“no burnout or it doesn’t impact safety and quality”) to 5 (“a serious impact on quality and safety”). This nonproprietary, single-item burnout-impacting safety scale showed a sensitivity of 82% using 4 on the scale as a cutoff (“there is quite a bit of impact of burnout on safety and quality”), indicating this tool may be effective in helping determine what healthcare providers may be at high risk for safety events affecting patients.
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Violence against healthcare workers (December 2019)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Staff safety
As patient safety improves, safety for healthcare workers seems to be getting worse. According to the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety Foundation, assault rates are at an all-time high since 2012, at a rate of 11.7 per 100 beds, and so is disorderly conduct, at 45.2 per bed. Other reports from around the United States show high rates of injury among healthcare workers, and that a significant number of these victims are working in fear—and there’s good reason to assume these incidents are grossly underreported. Patient Safety Authority Executive Director, Regina Hoffman, examines one of today’s biggest issues and raises the question: How can we reduce danger and violence in the workplace? -
Content Article"To healthcare workers in the COVID era, holidays mean death, and we knew Omicron was coming before it had a name. The wave caused by this variant has barely begun, rapidly gathering steam, and we are exhausted, attempting to pull from reserves badly drained by earlier surges." Kathryn Ivey, a critical care nurse at a medical center in Nashville, Tennessee, confronts the Omicron surge filling her hospital.
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Content ArticleIn this opinion piece for The BMJ, Partha Kar, consultant endocrinologist and NHS England National Specialty Advisor for Diabetes, looks at the crisis facing primary care in the UK. He highlights that many primary care professionals are feeling burnt out due to the intense pressure and negative attention GPs are currently experiencing. The cost of relying on primary care for the vaccination programme is that treatment for mental health and long term conditions has been neglected. GPs are at the receiving end of patients' frustrations about delays to their care. Partha highlights the need to: prepare well in advance for potential future waves of Covid-19, including by developing a vaccine delivery workforce that is not reliant on primary care. ensure vaccines are distributed to less developed countries, and move away from seeing vaccination as an issue of nationalism. increase funding for primary care in a focused and sustained way.
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