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  1. Content Article
    This study in Occupational Medicine examined the impact of the introduction of face masks during the Covid-19 pandemic on D/deaf healthcare professionals (HCPs). The study found that D/deaf HCPs felt left behind, isolated and frustrated by a lack of transparent masks and reasonable adjustments to meet their communication needs. This resulted in some leaving their roles, and loss of experienced, qualified HCPs has a significant economic and workforce impact, particularly during a pandemic. The authors call for urgent action to ensure D/deaf HCPs are provided with the workplace support required under the Equality Act (2010).
  2. News Article
    A crisis in cancer care at NHS Tayside could have been averted if the health board had publicly supported doctors who were criticised by an official report, according to a top oncologist. The last remaining breast radiotherapy specialist left at the end of January, with the board unable to replace him. Patients must now travel to Aberdeen, Glasgow or Edinburgh for radiotherapy. The situation has emerged three years after an investigation into chemotherapy treatment at Ninewells Hospital. NHS Tayside apologised to patients in 2019 after an investigation found doctors deviated from national standards on chemotherapy dosages given to breast cancer patients after surgery. A subsequent review found that the lower dosages were highly unlikely to have led to the deaths of any patients. Last year the doctors involved were cleared of any wrongdoing by the General Medical Council (GMC), who also found no fault with the treatment patients received. Some clinicians close to those involved told BBC Scotland the cancer doctors felt they had no choice but to leave because they did not have the backing of the board. Colleagues who support the oncologists say none of this needed to happen. Prof Alastair Munro, emeritus professor of radiation oncology at Dundee University, who previously worked as a cancer doctor in the department, said: "It's a totally avoidable tragedy, this should not have happened. "The first thing the health board need to do is to come clean, and say we got it wrong, we put our hands up, we want to start again with a clean slate and we want to attract good people to come to Tayside to deliver breast cancer services to the patients whose needs we serve." Read full story Source: BBC News, 9 February 2022
  3. News Article
    Nurses have spoken of the anxiety and dread of having periods at work, adding that free period products in the workplace would ‘take one giant stressor off your life’. The comments come as leading nurses from the RCN call for period products to be free and easily available to all healthcare staff. The British Medical Association has also requested that products be available for the well-being and comfort of staff. Advanced care practitioner in trauma and orthopaedics, Lisa Andrews said she wanted colleagues to understand why she might have to leave the ward during shifts if she starts her period or bleeds through sanitary products. ‘Many times I have had accidents which are embarrassing, and I have to stay at work in the same clothes. I dread the thought of having to wear scrubs as they are a lot thinner than my work clothes.’ Intensive care unit nurse Alicia, based in Scotland, told Nursing Standard that having her period at work is ‘very stressful’. ‘The entire time you are worried that you are bleeding through to your scrubs, everyone will know… to talk about periods is very taboo,’ she said. A recent survey of 3,000 people by charity Bloody Good Period found nine out of 10 respondents had experienced stress or anxiety at work because of their period. Having an employer who normalises the discussion of menstrual health at work would help, said 63% of respondents. RCN women’s health forum chair Katharine Gale told Nursing Standard: "The RCN feels that for dignity in the workplace [healthcare staff] need access to menstrual products." RCN Scotland board chair Julie Lamberth said: "As well as availability of period products, nursing staff need to be able to take their breaks so they can access them." Read full story Source: Nursing Standard, 7 February 2022
  4. News Article
    Over half of paramedics are suffering from burnout caused by “overwhelming” workloads, record numbers of 999 calls and the public misusing the ambulance service, a study has found. Frontline crew members also blame lack of meal breaks, delays in reaching seriously ill patients and their shift often not ending when it should for their high levels of stress and anxiety. The working lives of ambulance staff are so difficult that nine out of 10 display symptoms of “depersonalisation”, characterised by “cynicism, detachment and reduced levels of empathy” when dealing with patients who need urgent medical treatment. The widespread poor mental welfare of paramedics is a problem for the NHS because it is leading to some quitting, thus exacerbating its shortage of ambulance personnel, the authors said. The findings, published in the Journal of Paramedic Practice, have prompted concern that the demands on crews, alongside the injury, violence and death they encounter, are storing up serious mental health problems for them, including post-traumatic stress disorder. “Ambulance staff are passionate about their role. However, burnout is a significant and very real issue that decreases staff efficacy and reduces quality of patient care,” the study said. It was undertaken by Rachel Beldon, who works for the Yorkshire ambulance service, and Joanne Garside, a professor and school strategic director of Huddersfield university’s health and wellbeing academy. “Participants wanted better resources and staffing levels. The current workload appeared to be overwhelming and negatively affected their mental health and work-life balance.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 6 February 2022
  5. Content Article
    Staff retention is a significant issue for ambulance services across the globe. Exploratory research, although minimal, indicates that stress and burnout, in particular, influence attrition within the paramedic profession. These need to be understood if their impact on retention is to be addressed.
  6. Event
    By joining this session, you will be able to take away information and guidelines on how to support the wellbeing of our NHS people who are affected by Long Covid. The session will be run by our fantastic speakers covering a range of key topics, including: An introduction to Long Covid. Guidelines for supporting our NHS people affected by Long Covid. Exploring Long Covid through wellbeing conversations. Register
  7. Content Article
    Are Employment Tribunals the right institution to handle whistleblowing cases? This report aims to open the debate by examining the evidence. A research team from the University of Greenwich analysed Employment Tribunal judgements in England and Wales, for cases that included a Public Interest Disclosure claim, between 2015 and 2018. A total of 603 cases were included in the analysis. Included in the study were only those cases that went to at least preliminary hearing. Cases that were withdrawn before preliminary hearing were discounted.
  8. Content Article
    A recent highly critical NHSEI External Review of The Christie NHS Foundation Trust was prompted by whistleblowers. The Review was provided with detailed evidence that there were very significant (and distressing) problems with the Trust’s approach to race discrimination, bullying and the response when concerns were raised. The External Review (Paragraph 2.2.6.) states In this blog, Roger Kline considers whether the Trust’s own data supports the assertions in the Trust Chair’s email to staff in response to the Review. He considers how the NHSEI Review addressed the issues. He suggests that the Trust’s response; the shortcomings of the NHSEI Review response to the issue of race discrimination; and the NHSEI response to the Review once published mean that further scrutiny of the Trust and NHSEI’s response is required if staff are ever again to risk raise legitimate concerns in this Trust – or rely on NHSEI to support staff who do so.
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    As the health service continues to absorb Covid-19 pressures , and with Omicron adding further strain to an already debilitated workforce, we will look into the core issues and gaps around staff safety and wellbeing and the subsequent risk to patients. Join this HSJ webinar to engage in an open and honest discussion with valuable perspectives from frontline clinicians on some of the key emerging challenges around workforce safety and contingency options and innovation solutions that will help ensure essential services can be maintained safely. Hear from expert panellists on: The realities of dealing with continued service disruption and uncertainty: A perspective from frontline clinicians on the impact on patient safety Is enough being done around staff wellbeing? Find out what kind of support staff really need to ensure they can maintain high standards of care Safety education: How to bring organisational safety standards to the forefront with sections on People, Processes and Performance and discuss the impact of multidisciplinary team training on patient outcomes Speakers: Annie Hunningher, Consultant in Anaesthesia at Barts Health NHS Trust Jono Broad, Senior Manager for Co-Production and Patient Experience Lead for the Integrated Personalised Care Team, South West Regional Team, NHS England and NHS Improvement Chaired by Helen Hughes, Chief Executive, Patient Safety Learning. Register
  10. News Article
    The NHS is "riddled with racism", the chair of the British Medical Association's council has told the BBC. Dr Chaand Nagpaul has spoken out in response to a survey by the BMA, shared exclusively with BBC News. At least 75% of ethnic minority doctors experienced racism more than once in the last two years, while 17.4% said they regularly faced racism at work, the survey said. NHS England said it takes a "zero-tolerance approach" to racism. Racism affects patients as well as doctors' wellbeing, by stopping talented people from progressing fairly and affecting doctors' mental health, Dr Nagpaul warned. "This is about a moral right for anyone who works for the NHS to be treated fairly," he said. Around 40% of the NHS's 123,000 doctors are from minority backgrounds, compared to about 13.8% of the general population. But despite this diversity, doctors told the BBC that there was a toxic "us versus them" culture in NHS trusts across the UK. They said they had faced bogus or disproportionate complaints from colleagues, racist comments from superiors, and even physical assault in the workplace. Some said they had tried to lodge complaints which were then ignored or dismissed without investigation. One consultant, from a black African background, told the BMA that after reporting previous incidents "no action was taken... I feel uncomfortable and anxious of reprisals". Read full story Source: BBC News, 2 February 2022
  11. Content Article
    The resilience of health systems and cooperation between Member States have become particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the occasion of the French Presidency of the European Union (FPEU) 2022, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the General Directorate for HealthCare Services of the French Ministry of Health have worked together to produce this special issue of Eurohealth to better understand how health systems have responded to the health crisis and to draw lessons for improving resilience of health systems. (Available in both English and French.)
  12. Content Article
    This toolkit has been created for NHS organisations to help them implement the Living Wage. It includes the accreditation process as well as case studies and advice from existing accredited NHS organisations.
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    In this blog for the King's Fund, Toby Lewis examines the need for NHS organisations to ensure its staff members in lower-paid roles are paid enough to meet their living costs. He calls for organisations to pay the real Living Wage, a figure based on actual living costs, rather than the National Living Wage. Currently, NHS pay scales at and below Band 2 spine point 3 do not reach the real Living Wage. He argues that adopting a real Living Wage policy results in a return on investment in the form of fewer vacancies, smaller staff turnover and less sickness - 60% of real Living Wage employers state that it improves recruitment, quality of applicant, and retention in lower-paid roles.
  14. Content Article
    Doctor Laura Mount reveals in a new series in the Guardian how staff sickness, spiralling waiting lists and political pressure have left GPs on the brink.
  15. Content Article
    A 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.
  16. Content Article
    The single worst stressor on healthcare workers is the gap between what their patients need and what they can deliver. The covid-19 pandemic is making this divide wider than ever, writes Esther Choo in this BMJ article.
  17. Content Article
    This report is for everyone with an interest in our health care services, and who cares about the staff who form its bedrock: domestic staff, porters, administrators, doctors, nurses, midwives, health support workers, allied health professionals; managers, and all the other people who support them to deliver the best possible care for patients, their carers and families.
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    From Wednesday 26th January 2022 until February 3rd 2022, NHS England and NHS Improvement will be running daily drop-in Vaccine confidence Q&A sessions. These sessions are for all NHS staff to attend and will be an opportunity for you to ask any specific questions you might have regarding Covid-19 vaccines. Each of these drops-in sessions will be tailored towards a specific audience and hosted by a relevant clinical professionals who will answer any questions and signpost you to any additional information. These sessions will provide a safe and supportive environment to ask any questions you may have about the COVID-19 vaccines. Dates, times and themes are: Wednesday 26 January: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Primary Care Thursday 27 January: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm - Vaccines and Fertility Friday 28 January: 10:00am – 11:00 am - Vaccines and the Science Saturday 29 January: 7:00pm – 8:00 pm - Vaccines and Your Faith Sunday 30 January: 7:00pm - 8:00pm - Vaccines and Your Faith Monday 31 January: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Vaccines for Nursing and Midwifery Staff Tuesday 1 February: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm - Vaccines and Fertility Wednesday 2 February: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm - Vaccines for Healthcare Students Thursday 3 February: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm - Vaccines and the Science Please note that registration for each session will close three hours before each session begins. You will need to register with your NHS email address. Joining instructions will be send to registered delegates two hours before each session begins. For further information contact Erika Ottley at erika.ottley@nhs.net or on 0779 913 3321
  19. News Article
    NHS trusts in England lost nearly 2m days in staff absences due to long Covid in the first 18 months of the pandemic, according to figures that reveal the hidden burden of ongoing illness in the health service. MPs on the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on coronavirus estimate that more than 1.82m days were lost to healthcare workers with long Covid from March 2020 to September 2021 across England’s 219 NHS trusts. The estimate is based on data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from 70 NHS trusts and does not include the impact of the highly transmissible Omicron variant that has fulled record-breaking waves of infection in the UK and globally since it was first detected in November. Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat MP who chairs the APPG, said the government had paid “almost no attention to long Covid and the severe impact it was having on vital public services” and called for immediate support for those affected. “Thousands of frontline workers are now living with an often debilitating condition after being exposed to the virus while protecting this country,” she said. “They cannot now be abandoned.” Read full story Source: The Guardian, 24 January 2022
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    After nearly two years of pandemic, 5,000 inpatients and 1,000 deaths, the staff of one of the largest hospitals in north-west England are frustrated and exhausted. While ministers talk of encouraging signs that the Omicron wave may be receding in parts of England, staff at the Royal Preston are struggling to keep their heads above water. The hospital has seen a near four-fold increase in Covid patients since Christmas Day, rising to 103 last week. It is one of the largest hospitals in a region with the highest infection levels in the UK and two neighbouring NHS Trusts have declared critical incidents. Despite a recent slowdown in admissions, the “horrendous” levels of staff absence means the pressure is ratcheting up.
  21. Event
    This one day masterclass will focus on improving patient safety by motivating staff to change behaviour and affect organisational culture. It will look at effective ways to encourage health professionals to routinely embed high quality clinical evidence into their everyday work. It will explore the characteristics of relatively successful behaviour change interventions. The course is facilitated by Perbinder Grewal, a General & Vascular Surgeon. He is a human factors and patient safety trainer; leads on medical education both locally and nationally; is a Member of the Faculty of Surgical Trainers at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; has a passion for training and medical education; is a Module Tutor for the ChM in Vascular Surgery for the University of Edinburgh and Tutor for the ChM in General Surgery for the past 5 years; has Postgraduate Certificates in Leadership and Coaching. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/conferences-masterclasses/motivating-staff or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk hub members can receive 20% discount. Please email info@pslhub.org
  22. News Article
    The number of Covid patients in hospitals in England and Scotland has continued to rise this week, as NHS England reached a deal with private hospitals to free up beds amid the outbreak of Omicron cases. Meanwhile, Covid staff absences in England rose to their highest level since the introduction of the vaccine. The number of NHS workers in England off sick because of Covid was up by 41% in the week to 2 January, according to the latest figures. Five health workers describe some of the challenges they are facing, including understaffing, waiting times and bed-blocking. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 14 January 2022
  23. Content Article
    The frontline continues to be long and hard. There will be a moment when we all need a 'Buddy'. There will be a moment when you will be a 'Buddy' for somebody else. FrontlineBuddy is underpinned by 4 fundamental principles. The aim is to create a Buddy MindSet that places  “WE” at the very core. It impacts on how we ‘look out for each other’ and how we ‘relate to each other’ in our teams.  It nurtures a shared language and framework that everyone understands and commits to. Take a look at the FrontlineBuddy website for training materials and advice on how you can apply FrontlineBuddy across your organisation and support your staff and colleagues.
  24. News Article
    A trust has written to its registered workforce to reassure them of management support when delivering care in ‘extremely challenging circumstances’. Derbyshire Community Health Services Trust sent out a “statement of support for professionally registered colleagues”, in which it thanked them for their “continued efforts”, and explained how they would support staff from a “professional and regulatory perspective”, when delivering services that require “a high level of clinical knowledge and autonomous decision-making”. This week has seen NHS staff absences hit new highs – over 100,000 – and the military brought in to support care in London hospitals, in combination with very high community covid transmission rates and very busy acute trusts. The DCHST email, signed by executive director of nursing Michelle Bateman, executive medical director Ben Pearson and interim director of Allied Health Professionals Trish Bailey, said: “When services are at this high level of escalation it can mean that we are not always able to deliver care in the way we would like and that can challenge our professional values.” Helen Hughes, chief executive of charity Patient Safety Learning, said Derbyshire Community Healthcare’s message needed to be echoed by every trust in the country. “Without sufficient staffing resources, difficult decisions are required to prioritise care,” Ms Hughes said. “In some cases, delays in treatment as a result of these decisions could lead to avoidable harm.” She stressed it was “imperative” that future investigations into safety incidents “properly reflect the systemic nature of reasons for error or harm, not simply blaming staff for failures to provide safe care”. “Health professionals’ codes mean that they are not allowed to work outside their sphere of competence. But what if staff are being tacitly encouraged or required to work in an unsafe system? Staff need to be able to feel secure in raising any concerns they have, being listened to and being supported,” Ms Hughes added. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 10 January 2022
  25. Content Article
    The wellbeing of NHS staff is now recognised as a priority, as evidenced by the introduction of Wellbeing Guardians into the NHS. The NHS needs to appoint a National Wellbeing Guardian to provide a leadership role for the work of these guardians, and more generally to actively promote wellbeing in NHS staff, write Narinder Kapur, Christian Harkensee and Terry Skitmore in HSJ.
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