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Vaccinated nurses will now be ‘expected to return to work’ instead of isolating
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Vaccinated nurses will now be expected to return to work instead of isolating as new rules are set to relax. In a letter on the latest rule change from NHS England chief nursing officer Ruth May, chief people officer Prerana Issar, and medical director for primary care Dr Nikita Kanani said “Fully vaccinated staff and students who are identified as a contact of a positive Covid-19 case will no longer be expected to isolate and will be expected to return to work.” Staff returning to work are required to have been double jabbed, have no Covid-19 symptoms and receive a negative PCR test. This latest change in rules go in line with changes for the wider population. Read full story. Source: Nursing Times, 16 August 2021- Posted
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Night shifts linked to heart problems, study finds
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A new study has found night shifts are "significantly associated" with health issues related to the heart, particularly atrial fibrillation, finding that women may be at a greater risk. The research, published in the European Heart Journal also found working night shifts is linked to an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). “Night shift exposure also increased the risk of CHD (coronary heart disease) but not stroke or HF (heart failure). Whether decreasing night shift work frequency and duration might represent another avenue to improve heart health during working life and beyond warrants further study,” the paper said. Read full story. Source: The Independent, 16 August 2021- Posted
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Creating a safe space: Healthcare worker support toolkit
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This toolkit, produced by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, is intended to support healthcare leaders and policy makers to develop, implement or improve healthcare worker support models. It includes tools, resources and templates from organisations across the globe who have successfully implemented their own healthcare worker support models, such as peer support programs for healthcare providers.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis manuscript provides a comprehensive overview of what healthcare worker support models are available in Canada and internationally. It outlines best practice guidelines, tools and resources that policy makers, accreditation bodies, regulators and healthcare leaders can use to assess the support needs of healthcare workers. The Canadian Peer Support Network is intended as a forum for healthcare organisations seeking guidance in the development of their Peer Support Programs to assist providers who have experienced a patient safety incident. These interventions aim to improve the emotional well-being of healthcare workers and allow them to provide the best and safest care to their patients.
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Content ArticleHealth workers are at the front line of the COVID-19 outbreak response and as such are exposed to different occupational hazards that put them at risk, including exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens, violence, heavy workload and prolonged use of personal protective equipment (PPE). This document, produced by WHO, provides specific measures to protect occupational health and safety of health workers and highlights the duties, rights and responsibilities for health and safety at work in the context of COVID-19.
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Content ArticleThis guide, published by WHO, consolidates COVID-19 guidance for human resources for health managers and policy-makers to design, manage and preserve the workforce necessary to manage the COVID-19 pandemic and maintain essential health services. The guide identifies recommendations at individual, management, organisational and system levels.
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Banning drinking water for staff on wards ‘misguided’, warns union
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Nursing and maternity staff have reported that they are unable to have water with them whilst working, meaning some are unable to drink water for 12 hours due to work pressures. The Royal College of Midwives in updated guidance are calling for "common sense" from NHS trusts and boards on staff access to water and other drinks, particularly as staff are having to wear more PPE than before the pandemic began. Dr Mary Ross-Davie, director for professional midwifery at the RCM, said: “Some trusts and boards have banned water bottles in clinical areas, which means that our members are often going 12 hours with no break and no water. We are appealing to those services to apply common sense, to recognise that this application of infection control is misguided and to look after the health and wellbeing of their staff.” Read full story (paywalled). Source: Nursing Times, 11 August 2021 -
Content ArticleThis report produced by the American Medical Association details action steps that can be taken by an organisation before, during and after a crisis to reduce psychosocial trauma among healthcare workers.
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Content ArticleThis consensus study report (published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine), builds upon two ground-breaking reports from the past twenty years, 'To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System' and 'Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century', which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences and contributing factors of clinician burnout. It provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.
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Doctors have faced “worrying levels of abuse” in past month, BMA reports
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New data has revealed doctors are experiencing “worrying levels of abuse” during the Codi-19 crisis. In a survey, doctors (51% of respondents) have reported that they have witnessed violence and abuse against other staff, with 67% showing this was particularly high for those working in general practice. We cannot let people take out their frustration at a system on individual doctors or their colleagues, who truly are doing their best in the most difficult of situations. Even before the pandemic we were vastly understaffed, and abusive behaviour will drive more and more talented and experienced doctors away from the NHS at a time when we need them most . . . We urge our patients to afford the same compassion to staff that they are shown in hospital, after what has been the most horrific year of our careers.” Said The chair of the BMA’s Consultants Committee, Vishal Sharma. Overall results for the abuse questions are here, and broken down by healthcare setting here. Read full story. Source: BMJ, 10 August 2021 -
Content ArticleThis resource, published by the AHA Physician Alliance and the American Hospital Association, is a guide for health system leaders developing well-being programmes, focusing on the challenges of burnout due to COVID-19. This resource is in two-parts: COVID-19-specific resources and a guide to walk you through well-being program development and execution. These resources will help leaders build on tools already in place and learn from others who are doing this work.
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Leap in mental health absences among NHS staff
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According to data shared with HSJ, the amount of NHS staff taking time off for their mental health has leapt in the past few months. The data, collected by FirstCare and covering 46,000 NHS staff from nine trusts, showed mental health absences from May to June of this year was at least 20 per cent up on April and 35 per cent up on February with more than 40 per cent up on the same months last year. “Trust leaders remain acutely aware of the impact that the pandemic, coupled with existing NHS pressures, is having on the workforce. They are deeply concerned about their staff’s mental health and wellbeing and are doing what they can to look after their staff, but they cannot do this sustainably without a fully costed and funded multi-year workforce plan.” Said NHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson. Read full story (paywalled). Source: HSJ, 6 August 2021 -
Content ArticleThis news account, published by the International Council of Nurses, highlights the mass trauma that COVID-19 has caused among the world's nurses. It details the percentage of nurses experiencing mental health difficulties across the world as a result of the pandemic.
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News ArticleAn open letter has been published calling for the end of Covid-related abuse against healthcare staff, with leading health organisations coming together to unite against the rising tide of violence against nurses and other NHS staff. The letter was signed by nine representatives including the Royal College of Nursing and Royal College of Midwives and warned of the “unacceptable behaviours”, a move that comes after he chief executive and general secretary of the RCM, Gill Walton, received online threats after she supported a national appeal for pregnant women to get the Covid-19 vaccine. “To those who issue death threats or incite violence against us, we say enough is enough”, Ms Walton has said. Read full story. Source: The Nursing Times, 4 August 2021
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Shielding staff say they were forced back to work without a risk assessment
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According to a UK-wide survey conducted in April 2021, significant numbers of "extremely vulnerable" clinicians have said they were forced to go back to work without having an appropriate risk assessment in line with official guidance. The survey, recording 124 respondents, found 38% had yet to receive a risk assessment despite returning to work with the comments section entries including complaints around “bullying from peers” and “difficult” working relationships. “NHS organisations have been working hard to look after all their staff during these challenging times, and will be aware that the right support is especially important to meet the various needs of staff who are clinically extremely vulnerable." Paul Deemer, head of diversity and inclusion at NHS Employers has said. Read full story (paywalled). Source: HSJ, 4 August 2021- Posted
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Senior trust medics complain of ‘excessively authoritarian’ management
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Senior doctors in the radiology services at the University Hospitals North Midlands Trust have reported a ‘toxic’ culture and feelings that managers had been ‘excessively authoritarian’. In a letter sent by medical director John Oxtoby on 13 July, consultants who had been interviewed as part of an external review, have reported the culture within the department was “unhealthy and even toxic, and that this was impacting to some degree nearly all of the consultants interviewed” “It is clear from this work that as well as the need to tackle working relationships and some behaviours in the department, there is a huge amount of collective pride in the services delivered by the department.” Said Mr Oxtoby. Read full story (paywalled). Source: HSJ, 3 August 2021- Posted
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Content ArticleThis article focuses on the importance of integrating "the workplace, the workforce and the individual" in risk assessments during a pandemic and how it warrants highlighting health and safety laws that require "suitable and sufficient" risk assessment, particularly when workers are involved. The authors also discuss aerosol generating procedures and the risk of exposure to workers from main sources of viral aerosols and the need for appropriate workplace risk assessments to help protect staff.
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Content ArticleThis issue of Hindsight concerns ‘the new reality’ that we are facing. It includes a wide variety of articles from frontline staff and specialists in safety, human factors, psychology, aeromedical, and human and organisational performance in aviation. There are also insights from healthcare, shipping, rail, community development and psychotherapy.
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Content ArticlePatient safety incidents can have significant effects on both patients and health professionals, including emotional distress and depression. This, published in British Journal of Surgery (BJS) Open, study explores the personal and professional impacts of surgical incidents on operating theatre staff. This study, published in BJS Open, involved 45 face-to-face interviews, with participants including surgeons, anaesthetists, scrub nurses, ODPs and healthcare assistants. The authors state that the results indicate that more support is needed for operating theatre staff involved in surgical incidents. They also suggest that there needs to be greater transparency and better information during the investigation of such incidents for staff.
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Content ArticleThis discussion paper, published in The Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, explores some of the opportunities which healthcare organisations could embrace to positively influence the effects of power and hierarchy on staff safety. The author concludes: "This exploration into how power and hierarchy influence both staff and patient safety has identified and briefly explored some of the tensions created by misplaced brand loyalty inherent within healthcare institutions, and the legacy of harms resulting."
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Hospital staff complain to regulator about bullying, harassment and racism
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Hospital staff at the Royal London Hospital have complained about bullying, harassment, racism and sexism during an inspection by the care watchdog. After conducting a review of the imagining department at the Royal London Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital, there are now concerns over the culture of the service and conflict between staff. With both hospitals being overseen by Barts Health NHS Trust, chief executive Dame Alwen Williams has said “We will be ensuring staff have the resources to sustain improvements we need to make and there is appropriate oversight and processes in place for escalating wellbeing issues. We have a responsibility to listen to what our hard working team are saying, and respond appropriately and sensitively." Read full story. Source: The Independent, 30 July 2021 -
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Paramedics abused and assaulted while on duty, survey reveals
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New data has revealed hundreds of paramedics experience physical assault and verbal abuse whilst serving the public. According to NHS, there has been a 32 per cent rise in assault against paramedics over the past 5 years, with more than 1,600 saying they had been threatened while on duty or feared for their own lives. Now, ambulance trusts are aiming to fit paramedics with body cameras while the West Midlands have CCTV inside their ambulances. "After years of lobbying, the legislation is now in place to ensure that the worst offenders are severely and appropriately dealt with. The problem is that the law is not being used to full effect and sentences are still far too lenient. We are calling today on the courts to step up and impose the harshest penalties available to them." Said Tracy Nicholls, chief executive of the College of Paramedics. Read full story. Source: The Independent, 28 July 2021- Posted
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Content ArticleDo 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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Content ArticleThe 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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News ArticleThe care watchdog has warned patient care may be being affected by the current pressures on the NHS with healthcare workers suffering significant levels of stress. Concerns have been raised in recent weeks after a surge in Covid-19 infections has resulted in record numbers of people calling for ambulances and attending emergency departments, overwhelming the service. Professor Ted Baker, the Care Quality Commission’s chief inspector of hospitals has said “It's imperative that not only do we deal with the immediate pressures on the system, we also need to deal with the underlying problems with the models of care. If we don't do that, patients will not be able to receive the care we want them to, and the pressure on staff to provide care under these difficult circumstances will continue.” Read full story. Source: The Independent, 22 July 2021
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