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Improving safety for oncology healthcare workers and patients
Claire Cox posted an article in Cancers
Philippa Jones, past head of acute oncology, speaks to ecancer at UKONS 2019 in Telford about safety with regards to not only patients, carers and families but also healthcare workers. She explains that measures include appropriate training, qualifications and understanding of treatments so that they can give good advice and support to patients. Philippa highlights some training resources, guidelines and development opportunities for nurses and other healthcare workers.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis Clinical Knowledge Summary (CKS) topic is based on the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) post-traumatic stress disorder guideline. This CKS topic covers the management of children and adults with post-traumatic stress disorder in primary care. It does not cover the management of post-traumatic stress disorder in secondary care; or the management of anxiety, depression, drug or alcohol misuse, dissociative disorders, or adjustment disorders.
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Content ArticleAnxiety is a feeling of unease, like a worry or fear, that can be mild or severe. Everyone feels anxious from time to time and it usually passes once the situation is over. It can make our heart race, we might feel sweaty, shaky or short of breath. Anxiety can also cause changes in our behaviour, such as becoming overly careful or avoiding things that trigger anxiety. When anxiety becomes a problem, our worries can be out of proportion with relatively harmless situations. It can feel more intense or overwhelming, and interfere with our everyday lives and relationships. This self help guide, produced by Southern Health and Social Care Trust, explains what anxiety is, why it occurs and how to manage anxiety.
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Content ArticleNHS Resolution are raising awareness of the human and financial cost of assault claims. Not all assaults result in a claim for compensation but there is a duty to report all assaults. Assault claims result in life changing physical and psychological effects on the individual and in the most tragic cases a loss of life, impacting families and carers. Following an assault, staff are more inclined to leave the NHS and employers can struggle to attract and retain talent to work in their organisation
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Content ArticlePatient Safety and Healthcare Improvement at a Glance is an overview of healthcare quality written specifically for students and junior doctors and healthcare professionals. It bridges the gap between the practical and the theoretical to ensure the safety and well-being of patients. Featuring essential step-by-step guides to interpreting and managing risk, quality improvement within clinical specialties, and practice development, this highly visual textbook offers preparation for the increased emphasis on patient safety and quality-driven focus in today's healthcare environment.
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Content ArticleMental health nurses have a crucial role in preventing medical incidents and in promoting safety culture because they provide and coordinate most of patients' care. Therefore, they are able to enhance patients' outcomes and reduce nurses' injuries. The aims of this study from S H Hamaideh in International Nursing Review were to assess the perception of mental health nurses about patients' safety culture and to detect the factors which may affect patients' safety culture at psychiatric hospitals.
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Content ArticleA study of police wearing body worn cameras showed a reduction in complaints, and a decrease in occurrences and crimes. Mental health staff working in inpatient settings do not routinely wear cameras. The aim of this project, published in Mental Health in Family Medicine, was to examine the feasibility of using body worn cameras in an inpatient mental health setting. The results found that both staff and patients considered that their use in an inpatient mental health setting was beneficial. Compared to the same period the year before, there was a reduction in complaints and incidents during the duration of the pilot.
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Going home checklist for NHS staff
Martin Hogan posted an article in Motivating staff
It’s the little ripples from management that make a huge impact on safety for staff. If we don’t look after our staff, we won’t have anyone to safeguard our patients. It’s simple really! This going home checklist helps remind staff how important it is to look after their own mental health and well-being.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe management of occupational health, safety and wellbeing is now central to the effective running of the NHS. There is strong evidence linking patient safety, patient experiences and the quality of care with the safety, health and wellbeing of the workforce. The Boorman review into the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce clearly illustrates this link. However, looking after the health and wellbeing of staff is far more than supporting staff to develop health lifestyles: there is a legal duty to protect the health and safety of staff as detailed in the NHS Constitution. The NHS Staff Council’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partnership Group (HSWPG) have developed these standards through national partnership working to support NHS organisations in meeting their legal duties to protect staff from injury and illness.
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Content ArticleJen Gilroy-Cheetham, Programme Manager at the Innovation Agency, talks about her experiences as a patient and makes a plea for a different way of doing things. Jen was speaking at the Innovation Agency's Eco 18 event, held at Haydock Racecourse in March 2019, focusing on innovating to meet NHS and social care workforce challenges.
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Two-thirds of trusts failing to protect staff from violence
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Around two-thirds of NHS providers were found to be breaking laws aimed at protecting staff from violence and aggression, when inspected by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), information released to HSJ reveals. The HSE has inspected 37 NHS organisations since April 2018, looking at how they manage risks to staff from violence and aggression, and found 25 of them (67%) were in breach of the law. It comes amid concern about rising numbers of assaults on NHS and care staff. The HSE has identified that three staff members have been killed by patients or service users in the last five years. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 6 January 2020 -
Content ArticleAmandip Sidhu is a Learn Not Blame member and pharmacist. Tragically, Amandip lost his brother, a respected Consultant Cardiologist, to suicide. In this heartbreaking and powerful guest blog for Doctors Association UK (DAUK) and the Compassionate Culture campaign, Amandip reflects on the “just get on with it” attitude of the NHS, and how we must move to kinder NHS that treats it’s staff with much needed compassion.
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My career of treating patients has ended (4 July 2019)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
A harrowing account from an anonymous physician on why he and colleagues are leaving the medical profession.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis joint report by the Prison Reform Trust (PRT), INQUEST and Pact (the Prison Advice and Care Trust) reveals that most prisons in England and Wales are failing in their duty to ensure that emergency phone lines are in place for families to share urgent concerns about self-harm and suicide risks of relatives in prison. This is in serious breach of government policy that families should be able to share concerns ‘without delay’.
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What is restorative justice?
Claire Cox posted an article in Harmed care patient pathways/post-incident pathways
Restorative justice brings those harmed by crime or conflict and those responsible for the harm into communication, enabling everyone affected by a particular incident to play a part in repairing the harm and finding a positive way forward. This is part of a wider field called restorative practice. Restorative practice can be used anywhere to prevent conflict, build relationships and repair harm by enabling people to communicate effectively and positively. Restorative practice is increasingly being used in schools, children’s services, workplaces, hospitals, communities and the criminal justice system. Could this be something that we could utilise as a new approach in healthcare?- Posted
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Staff assaults and killings spark investigation of 20 providers
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Safety inspections have been carried out at 20 health and care providers, in response to a high level of assaults, including three staff killed by patients in the last five years. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 18 December 2019 -
Content ArticleBMA policy recommendations on how to reduce bullying and harassment and create a more positive culture in the NHS and medical profession.
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Why should health agencies refer to restorative justice?
Claire Cox posted an article in Second victim
‘Victim wellbeing’ is a phrase often linked to restorative justice, but what does that look like in practice? In this article, Greg Smith (restorative justice development manager at Thames Valley Restorative Justice Service (TVRJS)), Diana Batchelor (PhD researcher at Oxford University and independent evaluation researcher for TVRJS) and Becci Seaborne (assistant director for restorative justice at TVRJS) consider why, and how, restorative justice could become a default option for health service providers.- Posted
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Content ArticleConquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy The Fearless Organisation: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organisations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent--but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of "fitting in" and "going along" spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid questions and yes dissent can slow things down, but talking through these things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing. This book explores this culture of psychological safety, and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation. Explore the link between psychological safety and high performance Create a culture where it's "safe" to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes Nurture the level of engagement and candour required in today's knowledge economy Follow a step-by-step framework for establishing psychological safety in your team or organisation Shed the "yes-men" approach and step into real performance. Fertilise creativity, clarify goals, achieve accountability, redefine leadership, and much more. The Fearless Organisation helps you bring about this most critical transformation.
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Content ArticleCIRAS (Confidential Reporting for Safety) is a safety charity for the transport industry. They look at a range of concerns affecting the health, wellbeing and safety of staff, passengers or the public. The concerns raised through their hotline often have common themes – non-compliance, equipment issues, fatigue, security and working conditions – and they share this learning and good practice across the CIRAS community. Some of this learning and good practice can be applied to other industries and organisations, including healthcare. Each month, CIRAS publish a newsletter: Frontline Matters, with articles on health and safety.
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Content ArticleThe Culture Change Toolbox is a collection of tools and interventions for changing culture. It’s full of ideas, examples, and exercises. For each tool there are tips on how to apply it and a description of which components of culture it helps to improve. This latest version includes: the latest evidence on culture change a refreshed format with an improved flow for learning new activities and resources for teams examples from across the continuum of care.
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Content ArticleUsing a spectrum of measures, this paper from Kline and Lewis estimates some of the financial costs of bullying and harassment to the NHS in England. By means of specific impacts resulting from bullying and harassment to staff health, sickness absence costs to the employer, employee turnover, diminished productivity, sickness presenteeism, compensation, litigation and industrial relations costs, we conservatively estimate bullying and harassment to cost the taxpayer £2.281 billion per annum. The evidence in this paper indicates the importance of urgent material engagement to address bullying in the UK NHS. Existing staff surveys fail to capture the types of behaviours often attributable to bullying and this should be a focus to design pertinent interventions. Capturing bystander/witness experiences are undocumented, as are workplace incivilities and staff satisfaction with policy and procedures for tackling bullying. Policy change is vital for accurately capturing the costs of bullying associated with absenteeism, staff replacement, productivity reductions and to use these as mechanisms to manage organizations that fail to address bullying.
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One in two care workers verbally and physically abused by care home residents
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Nearly half of care workers in care homes have been both physically and verbally abused by the residents they are supporting, according to new research. A poll of 2,803 staff working in care homes revealed 17% have received verbal abuse from residents and 11% have been subject to physical abuse. A spokesperson for carehome.co.uk, said: “All over the UK, care workers are doing physically and emotionally demanding jobs on often low pay and long hours. Yet at the same time, the rewards of working in a care home can be huge, as you can build strong relationships with the people you care for and make deep, emotional connections." “Lashing out at staff is often a sign of frustration and it is vital care homes give staff dementia training so they can find the reasons behind this challenging behaviour. Care workers do such an important job and with around three-quarters of people in care homes having dementia, it is vital care workers are given adequate support and specialist training to care for them.” Read full story Source: Carehome.co.uk, 10 May 2019- Posted
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Content ArticleAmy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, talks about building a psychological safe workplace for staff in this TEDx talk.
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