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EventThis conference will bring together current and aspiring Ward Managers to understand current issues and the national context, and to develop your skills as an effective Ward Manager. The conference will open with reflections on the characteristics and qualities required for the role, and understanding your role within quality and specifically meeting the CQC Quality Ratings at Ward level. The conference will include a look at the challenges and issues as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic for Ward Managers. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/effective-ward-manager or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk. hub members receive a 20% discount code. Email info@pslhub.org for discount code. Follow the conference on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #wardmanager
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Nottingham hospital menopause scheme hailed by staff
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Hospital staff in Nottingham have said they are keen to build on the success of its menopause support scheme. Nottingham University Hospitals Trust (NUH) said 24% of its staff were aged 45-55, the most common age for the condition. Staff can ask for lighter uniforms, shift changes, more time to complete tasks or access to fans in offices. Advice, awareness training and access to specialist staff are also part of the scheme. The staff wellbeing team at NUH said they were "inundated" with messages from colleagues who were struggling. Jenny Good, NUH Staff Wellbeing Lead, said: "We strongly believe that menopause is an issue for everybody. Everyone knows somebody who will go through it. "We wanted to equip everyone who works at NUH with an awareness of what menopause is. "We're really proud that we're the first NHS trust to get the accreditation. "The conversation has opened up." Read full story Source: BBC News, 18 December 2022 -
Content ArticleTracey Herlihey, head of patient safety incident response policy, in the NHS England national patient safety team, is joined by Vicky Ainsworth, a communications lead at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust and Stuart Kaill, from Health Innovation Manchester, to discuss ways of communicating about large scale change projects in NHS organisations. The podcast explores Vicky’s experience of leading on communications for a large scale change project in Manchester, with a specific focus on sharing advice and suggestions relating to communicating the changes related to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). It includes expert tips on how to communicate large scale change to different audiences as well as within both large and small organisations.
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Content ArticleThis paper, published in Applied Ergonomics, looks at how those in healthcare might select which technique to use to predict error. The author concludes: "there is a lack of practical experiences described in the literature to conclusively define a technique for selection and a need for a dedicated research in this area to make it accessible for healthcare and other novice users".
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RCPCH: Seasonal selection - Fatigue, sleep and wellbeing
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Staff safety
With the winter season bringing extra challenges on our levels of fatigue, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) bring together a few recent articles around sleep, fatigue and wellbeing, touching upon the responsibility of employers, NHS organisations and Government as well as a range of resources sharing advice and practical tips. -
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‘Four in five Britons concerned about patient safety during NHS strikes’
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Four out of five Britons are worried about the NHS’s ability to provide safe care for patients during strikes by nurses and ambulance workers, a new poll has found. While around half of those surveyed said they support the planned industrial action, the majority expressed concern about the impact on patient safety. The Ipsos poll of 1,100 adults found that 80% were very or fairly concerned about the ability of the NHS to provide safe care for people during the nurses’ strike, which began on Thursday. Meanwhile, 82% of those questioned in the survey said they are very or fairly concerned about patient safety during the ambulance workers’ industrial action, with the first strike planned for 21 December. The new poll comes as the NHS continues to face high demand and widespread staffing gaps, with health leaders fearing this winter will be the most difficult in the health service’s history. Ambulances have been struggling to meet response times targets, while new data published on Thursday shows handover delays at hospitals in England have hit a new high. But the Ipsos survey suggests that, nevertheless, more people are supportive of the industrial action than are opposed to it. Some 50% of those questioned said they either strongly support or tend to support the industrial action by nurses, while 47% are supportive of the ambulance worker strikes. Read full story Source: The National, 15 December 2022 -
Content ArticleIncident reporting is a crucial tool for improving patient safety, alongside an open culture that supports this. In the NHS the new Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service is now being rolled out to replace the current National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) and Strategic Executive Information System (StEIS). This article details correspondence between Patient Safety Learning and NHS England in relation to concerns raised by staff about the development and implementation of the LFPSE service
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News ArticleThe Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has not met thresholds required to strike in its vote, it announced today, but physiotherapy staff are set to strike at more than 100 trusts in their first ever action ballot over pay. The trade union announced this afternoon that its ballot had not reached the turnout required to take strike action. 88& of those who voted said they supported strike action, but only about 47% of eligible members voted. Law requires a turnout of at least 50%, the RCM said. It comes as nurses prepare to take industrial action on 15 and 20 December, over pay and safety concerns, with ambulance staff across the GMB Union, Unison and Unite set to walk out on 21 December (and GMB also on 28 December). Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 13 December 2022
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Content ArticlePatient safety incident investigations (PSII) are system-based responses to a patient safety incident for learning and improvement. Typically, a PSII includes four phases: planning, information gathering, synthesis, and interpreting and improving. More meaningful involvement can help reduce the risk of compounded harm for patients, families and staff, and can improve organisational learning, by listening to and valuing different perspectives.
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Content ArticleJETS is the JAG Endoscopy Training System. It supports high quality endoscopy training in the UK by offering training courses for endoscopists and an ePortfolio for trainees to record their procedure data. JETS is an online framework for trainee certification in a number of endoscopy modalities including OGD, colonoscopy, and flexible sigmoidoscopy.
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EventuntilThe past couple of years have placed enormous pressures on the mental health and wellbeing of the population. The current cost of living crisis is having a significant impact on people’s state of mind with millions feeling stressed about rising food and energy prices as we head into winter. Delivered by Maximus, the Access to Work Mental Health Support Service, funded by the Department for Work and Pensions, can help employees and employers during this difficult time with their mental health. Completely confidential, the service is available at no charge to anyone with depression, anxiety, stress or other mental health issues, affecting their work. Remploy already helped thousands of people across England, Scotland and Wales, to remain in, or return to work, so our expertise speaks for itself. Led by Bethany Kimberley and Kaylena Mushen, this webinar will introduce the service, covering facts and statistics around mental health. It also looks at the service’s aims, eligibility criteria and referral process, plus what support and workplace adjustments are available at home, in an office, or other place of work. The session will also introduce and additional service, offering virtual one-to-one support appointments for employees. Learn how to gain access to fully-funded expert advice and support for up to nine months, which includes – A well being plan to help employees stay in, or attend work. Ideas for suitable workplace adjustments. Tailored coping strategies. Facts and statistics around mental health. Aims of the service. Details of the eligibility criteria and referral process. The support and interventions available. Register
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News ArticleThe NHS faces the threat of coordinated industrial action lasting several months, with results to be announced within days of strike ballots of ambulance crews and about 300,000 health workers. Junior doctors, paramedics, midwives, porters, cleaners, pharmacy technicians and physiotherapists are being balloted across the NHS. The government now faces the threat of waves of strikes across the public sector, from nurses and firefighters to civil servants and teachers. A ballot of 15,000 ambulance workers in England and Wales closes on Tuesday. The result of the GMB ballot could be announced as early as this week, with the prospect of the first national ambulance strike since the dispute of 1989-90, when police and army vehicles were brought in to transport patients. The RCN said on Saturday that the health secretary Steve Barclay had written to the union asking for officials to “come back to the table” before the planned strikes. RCN chief executive Pat Cullen said any talks needed to focus on the pay deal and that the position of her members was “negotiations or nothing”. Rachel Harrison, GMB public services national secretary, said: “Health service workers have suffered more than a decade of real-terms pay cuts, been on the frontline of a global pandemic and are now in the midst of the worst cost of living crisis in a generation. “This is as much about patient safety as it is about pay. A third of GMB ambulance workers think delays they’ve been involved with have led to the death of a patient.” Read full story Source: The Observer, 27 November 2022
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Menopausal women in NHS England workforce to be offered flexible working
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Menopausal women working in NHS England will be able to work flexibly should they need to under new guidance. Launching the first national NHS guidance on menopause, the NHS England chief executive, Amanda Pritchard, has called on other employers to follow suit to help “break the stigma”. She said many employees were “silently suffering” and were either too embarrassed to broach the subject or experience a “lack of support” when they did. No one should feel their only option is to “turn their back on their career” over menopausal symptoms, she added. “It’s our responsibility as leaders to ensure this doesn’t happen any longer.” The guidance aims to boost awareness as well as support the introduction of practical measures including flexible working patterns – including lighter duties, fans to make temperatures more comfortable, cooler uniforms and staff training. “Our guidance has been intentionally designed to be transferable to other workplaces too, so I hope organisations and women beyond the NHS can also benefit,” she said. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 23 November 2022 -
Content ArticleThe number of children and young people admitted to children’s wards with an eating disorder has increased significantly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the most extreme cases, those with severe malnutrition may need to be fed via a nasogastric tube without their consent. Children’s nurses working on hospital wards may therefore care for children and young people who need to receive nasogastric tube feeding under physical restraint. This article offers an overview of eating disorders and their detrimental effects as well as practical advice for children’s nurses, supporting them to provide safe, compassionate and person-centred care to their patients.
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Content ArticleRadar Healthcare has published its 'Incident Reporting in Secondary Care' whitepaper – an in-depth analysis of reporting within secondary care and its effects on patient safety. It has taken a look into the current state of incident reporting: the good work being done, the concerns across the sector, and how we can all aim to improve the situation. The report was conducted using a panel provided by SERMO from its database of UK Nurses and includes the views from 100 nursing staff members working in hospital wards across the UK. Those surveyed work with hospital in-patients daily and are responsible for reporting safety and regulatory incidents involving patients to senior colleagues.
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Psychological Professions Network (PPN)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Mental health
The Psychological Professions Network is a membership network commissioned by Health Education England for all psychological professionals and other stakeholders in NHS commissioned psychological healthcare, whether you work with children, adults or another population, whether you are in training or qualified, a manager, commissioner, educator, or an expert by experience. -
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Toxic workplaces pushing GPs out of UK practice
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
GPs are leaving UK practice over workplace incidents rather than due to falling ‘out of love’ with the profession, the General Medical Council (GMC) has warned. Speaking to the NHS Providers conference (16 November), chief executive Charlie Massey said that many specialty and associate specialist (SAS) and locally employed (LE) doctors feel their careers are being ‘curtailed’ and that they ‘can’t tolerate the environments’ in which they work. He cited new GMC research into doctors’ migration which identified poor workplace conditions and ‘negative experiences with colleagues’ as a ‘far more impactful’ as a trigger compared to poor experiences with patients. According to the research, bullying at work, lack of respect from line managers and experiences of favouritism ‘provided the nudge for them to consider making a change and migrating abroad’. Mr Massey said: "This is a senseless waste of talent, not least because these issues are preventable. With a focus on compassionate, supportive cultures, they can be put right. This will not only improve doctors’ wellbeing, but also their productivity. Happier workers are better workers, and they deliver better results." Read full story Source: Healthcare Leader, 16 November 2022 -
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PACE communication tool
Patient_Safety_Learning posted an article in Staff safety
Supporting staff to speak up is essential to patient safety. The PACE communication tool is designed to help anyone in a team challenge an action or behaviour they feel is inappropriate. You can read more about PACE (probe, alert, challenge, emergency) and other communication tools on the Victorian Trauma System website via the link below. -
Content ArticleThis BMJ Practice Pointer discusses how we can support our colleagues with their mental health.
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Content ArticleAfter a prolonged battle with the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare providers now face the next crisis that has been brewing even longer: staff shortages and an increasingly exhausted workforce. In early 2022, almost one in two (47%) healthcare professionals reported feeling burned out, up from 42% last year. Many consider leaving the field, adding to the worries of employers who see growing demand for care without enough hands at the bedside to cater for their patients. Can AI be part of the solution by helping healthcare professionals reclaim the joy in their work? An article by Philips.
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EventuntilThe Covid-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on our lives, including in how we work. While incredible efforts of health and care staff and voluntary and community workers were rightly valued and celebrated at the start of the pandemic, the scale of the workforce crisis in health and care continues to present a significant challenge for staff and leaders. Collaborative and inclusive leadership is key to successfully delivering good-quality care, as underlined by the recommendations from the Messenger Review. Bringing our humanity to the workplace can mean different things to different people, but a greater focus on developing relationships in teams and the practice of collaborative, inclusive and compassionate leadership will be critical in supporting people through recovery from the pandemic. But how can we encourage others to bring their full selves to work at a time of significant challenge?’ The King's Fund's tenth annual leadership and workforce summit provides an established forum for health and care leaders to come together to share their leadership and workforce challenges and to explore practical options to help address them. Register
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GMC launches 'hub' to tackle racism after recent criticism
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Following the blistering verdict last week of the independent review into the General Medical Council's (GMC) handling of the notorious 'laptop' case, which highlighted the "worrying trend" of ethnic minority doctors facing disproportionate regulatory action, the GMC has launched a new resource 'hub' to support doctors facing racism at work. A new dedicated area on the GMC website offers advice on how to address racism in the workplace, and sits alongside its existing dedicated whistleblowing webpage as the latest of 12 areas in an 'ethical hub' that brings together resources on how to apply GMC guidance in practice, focussing on areas doctors often query or find most challenging, and helping to address important ethical issues. Announcing the launch, the GMC said: "Tackling discrimination and inequality continues to be an urgent priority for health services." It added: "The GMC has committed to working with organisations to drive forward change, setting targets on tackling inequality." Its equality, diversity, and inclusion targets set last year aimed, inter alia, "to eliminate disproportionate complaints from employers about ethnic minority doctors, by 2026, and to eradicate disadvantage and discrimination in medical education and training by 2031". In March this year it published its first progress report, which showed that the gap between employer referral rates for ethnic minority doctors and international medical graduates, compared with white doctors, had "reduced slightly". Read full story Source: Medscape UK, 15 November 2022 -
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GMC: Racism in the workplace hub
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in General Medical Council (GMC)
Everyone has the right to come to work without fear of racism. This resource from the General Medical Council (GMC) provides advice on how our guidance principles on non-discrimination apply when tackling racism. Where racist behaviour occurs among colleagues and patients, we recognise the fear that many doctors have of reporting these incidents. It signposts a range of support channels and highlights the duties we expect of doctors in senior positions in tackling and rooting out discrimination where it arises. It includes case studies from doctors and others on their experiences, advice and best practice. -
Content ArticleNHS chiefs and regulators have written to hospital bosses admitting winter could be so bad NHS staff may have to "depart from established procedures" to care for patients. Letter says regulators will take the challenging situations into context...
