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  1. News Article
    The Royal College of Nursing has demanded the health secretary is made fully accountable for the planning and supply of nursing staff in England. As the Health and Care Bill passes through parliament, the RCN insists key changes need to be made to Bill to enable the workforce crisis to be appropriately addressed, including ensuring that the commissioning of services is done in partnership with local communities and ensuring that the voices of experts such as royal colleges are part of the regulation of the profession. Read full story. Source: RCN, 17 July 2021
  2. News Article
    Some frontline NHS staff who have been double vaccinated may be allowed to continue working even if they are exposed to someone who has Covid-19. This decision comes after concerns were raised regarding staff shortages and where absences could result in "significant harm". Health Secretary Sajid Javid has said: "As we learn to live with this virus, it's important that we ensure frontline staff can keep providing the best possible care and support to people up and down the country. These new rules will fortify our collective defences against this awful virus, by allowing fully vaccinated frontline NHS and social care staff to continue to work when needed." Read full story. Source: BBC News, 19 July 2021
  3. Content Article
    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.
  4. Content Article
    This list, produced by the Health and Safety Executive, bullet points the job, person and organisation factors that influence human performance.
  5. News Article
    The Royal College of Nursing has written to the Prime Minister demanding continued protective measures after the loosening of restrictions on July 19th. In a joint letter with the British Medical Association, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, British Dental Association and College of Optometrists, they ask for support and protection for healthcare staff. The letter says “The need to recognise health and care settings as unique environments for the care and safety of the most vulnerable is paramount. While you state that you would expect the public to continue wearing face coverings in healthcare settings, we ask that this is translated into action". Read full story. Source: RCN, 14 July 2021
  6. News Article
    In November last year, Unison and RCN raised concerns with NHS Forth Valley chief executive Cathie Cowan amid bullying claims made by emergency department staff at Forth Valley Royal Hospital. In light of the reports of bullying, a review was commissioned and leaked details revealed junior doctors were left unsupervised on shifts, nurses and doctors had said they are 'battle-weary', and many senior staff members have resigned their posts. Karren Morrison, Unison Forth Valley health branch secretary has said: ‘Last year, concerns were being raised by our members who worked in, or who had previously worked in the ED. Staff talked to us about feeling bullied and intimidated, being frightened to speak up, concerns about the delivery of safe patient care, high staff turnover and other issues.’ Read full story (paywalled). Source: Nursing Standard, 12 July 2021
  7. News Article
    NHS staff have faced abuse by members of the public after demanding their second dose of the jab earlier than 8 weeks so they can go on holiday. A doctors has said covid-19 vaccinators are experiencing aggression and threats from people and after one incident, police had to be called over fears for safety. Chair of the Royal College of GPs, Professor Martin Marshall has said: “It is understandable that people want to be fully vaccinated as soon as possible. But it is entirely unacceptable for anybody working on the Covid vaccination programme, be it in GP-led sites, mass vaccination centres or hospital centres, to be at the receiving end of verbal abuse and intimidation. Read full story. Source: The Guardian, 10 July 2021
  8. Content Article
    This 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.
  9. News Article
    A frontline respiratory consultant has said, “Healthcare professionals are deeply anxious about the impact of relaxing restrictions further given the current surge in Covid cases. To do away with risk-mitigating measures like social distancing and wearing of masks is incomprehensible to many of us. I feel anxious and frustrated". Hospitals in Yorkshire and North of England may also be experiencing a fourth wave. Dr Nick Scriven has told The Guardian, “Us up north are experiencing a fourth wave in community cases, with an uptick in hospital cases. Although numbers are not massive it’s both frightening and upsetting for staff as ICU cases are rising with unvaccinated people, either as they are young or by choice or both. There is to me a growing feeling that vaccination makes this almost preventable.” Read full story. Source. The Guardian, 9 July 2021
  10. Content Article
    This 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.
  11. Content Article
    National Guardian news discussing current events, annual reports, and guidance.
  12. News Article
    New FFP3 masks may reduce likelihood of infection rates, a new study finds. After healthcare workers used the masks when on Covid-19 wards, the rate of SARS-CoV-2 infections was found to be lowered by a significant amount. Since the study, Public Health England have updated its guidance which now requires NHS organisations to provide FFP3 respirators where appropriate. Read full story. Source: BMJ, 29 June 2021
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    Disruptive 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.
  14. Content Article
    This 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.
  15. News Article
    The Royal College of Nursing has updated their Healthy Workplace toolkit to include the need for nurses to stay hydrated during their shifts and to take their at-work breaks. The toolkit was designed to improve health and wellbeing for nurses working in all areas of healthcare. It also includes pandemic-specific advice and an aim to improve working environments for nursing staff. Read full story. Source: Royal College of Nursing, 21 June 2021
  16. Content Article
    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.
  17. Content Article
    In 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.
  18. Content Article
    Psychological 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)
  19. News Article
    New research shows a rise in sharps injuries among healthcare workers around Europe over the last year. Respondents of the research said the rise in sharps injuries may be due to staff shortages and higher pressures and stress on healthcare staff. The survey, which covered more than 300,000 healthcare workers, found workers were being put at unnecessary risk of contracting deadly diseases such as HIV, Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, with nurses being the ones primarily affected by the sharps injuries. The article concludes that more interventions need to be done to protect healthcare workers. Read full story Source: The Brussels Times, 15 June 2021
  20. News Article
    A new survey by the BMA was conducted throughout the UK on moral distress from 18 March 2021 to 12 April 2021. It was found that those doctors who worked with Covid-19 patients and doctors who were from ethnic backgrounds, were more likely to say moral distress was a feeling they had experienced. It was also found doctors from ethnic backgrounds were also more likely to say moral injury resonated with their experiences. The results of the survey has raised concerns for staff wellbeing with the BMA asking that the government increase staffing to the NHS, and provide emotional and psychological support for healthcare workers. Read full story Source: BMJ, 16 June 2021
  21. News Article
    A regulator has warned a trust to take immediate action after it was found junior doctors were seeing acute inpatients alone. The warning comes after a serious safety concerns were raised when a doctor was stabbed by a patient. Health Education England has ordered Central and North West London Foundation Trust to ensure doctors are always accompanied by another member of staff with appropriate qualifications after safety concerns were raised regarding patient and staff. Read full story. (Paywalled) Source: HSJ, 15 June 2021
  22. Content Article
    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.  
  23. News Article
    A new report commissioned by the House of Commons finds NHS staff and social care workers are suffering from burnout at 'emergency levels'. The report has said problems with burnout among the NHS and care staff already existed but was increased due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Staff shortages have been indicated as one of the causes of burnout as the work days became longer and the pressure on staff grew. It was also found that staff felt overwhelmed after lockdown ended as patients who had not been to see their GP during lockdown were now coming in with an array of health problems. NHS and care staff felt insufficiently equipped to deal with the incoming patients due to a lack of proper staffing support in the workforce. Read the full story Read the full report here Source: BBC News, 8 June 2021
  24. Content Article
    Workforce 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. 
  25. Content Article
    This 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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