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EventuntilThis face-to-face event by The Royal College of Emergency Medicine will look at research around burnout and other psychological impacts of working in the emergency department. It will feature talks from clinicians promoting staff wellbeing and explore opportunities to work with the Sustainable Working Practice Committee. View the event programme Book this event. Reduced fees are available for RCEM members and student members LMIC clinicians and students.
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EventuntilThis free webinar from the Patient Safety Movement Foundation in the US takes place at 7.30am PT (3.30pm GMT). Healthcare professionals around the world are facing immense burnout at unprecedented level. Yet the systems they work in perpetuate burnout due to unnecessary waste. The panelists in this webinar will identify actionable recommendations for healthcare leaders and professionals to minimise burnout on individual, organisational and system-wide levels. Objectives: Identify root causes of burnout within the healthcare setting. Recognise signs of burnout in self and colleagues. Examine ways to mitigate burnout at an individual and organisational level. Moderator: Vonda Vaden Bates, CEO, 10th Dot, Medical Safety Advocate Panelists: Kimberly A. Baker MSN, RN, CARN, NPD-BC, Behavioral Health Programmatic Nurse Specialist, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Presbyterian Hospital Oscar San Roman Orozco, MD, MPH, Applied Global Public Health Initiative, Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico Louis Stout, RN, MS, Colonel (Retired), US Army Nurse Corps, Chief Nursing Officer, Madigan Army Medical Center Register for this webinar
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EventuntilHR leaders, mental health professionals and technology experts will be discussing how the NHS can support staff through peak demand at a forthcoming HSJ webinar. Charlotte Andrews, head of wellbeing and development at Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust; Neil Greenberg, professor of defence mental health at King’s College London and lead for trauma at the Royal College of Psychiatrists; Karon Hart, assistant director of human resources (operations and wellbeing) at Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; and Coppelia Rose, global SAP healthcare and life sciences leader at DXC Technology will together discuss how workforce resilience and wellbeing can be supported during times of extreme stress. This free HSJ webinar, which is being supported by SAP, will be chaired by HSJ contributor Claire Read. Register
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EventThe Learning from Excellence (LfE) team bring you the 4th LfE Community Event. The theme for the event is “Being better, together”, reflecting on their aspiration to grow as individuals, and as part of a community, through focussing on what works. For this event, they are partnering with the Civility Saves Lives (CSL) team, who promote the importance of kindness and civility at work and seek to help us to address the times this is lacking in a thoughtful and compassionate way, through their Calling it out with Compassion programme. The 2021 event is planned to be on-line and will include conversations with people who inspire the work of LfE and CSL. It will be as interactive and will be followed by the release of some longer-form conversations with the conference speakers and the LfE & CSL teams as a podcast series. Closing date for registration: 1st October 2021. Registration
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EventLeadership in the NHS is the responsibility of all staff. Understanding human factors will allow healthcare to enhance performance, culture and organisation. It can be used to assess why things go wrong and how to implement change to prevent it from happening again or mitigate the risks. This virtual masterclass, facilitated by Mr Perbinder Grewal, General Vascular Surgeon, will guide you in how to use Human Factors in your workplace. Programme and registration hub members receive a 20% discount. Please email info@pslhub.org for discount code
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EventThis Hospital at Night Summit focuses on out of hours care in hospitals delivering high quality safe care at night. Through national updates, networking opportunities and case studies this conference provides a practical guide to delivering a high quality hospital at night, and moving forward during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will also focus on improving staff well-being at night and reducing fatigue. For more information visit: https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/hospital-at-night-summit or email nicki@hc-uk.org.uk hub members receive a 20% discount. Please email info@pslhub.org for discount code Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #hospitalatnight
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EventuntilWhat will the new world of work look like in the NHS post-pandemic is the crucial question being examined in an HSJ webinar. The webinar will bring together a panel of experts to discuss what skills NHS staff will need as the world of work changes, with the likelihood that some work that has been done face-to-face will be virtual. On the panel will be Elspeth Griffiths, director of HR, workforce and OD for NHS South Central and West Commissioning Support Group, Kate Jarman, director of communications and corporate affairs, Milton Keynes University Hospital, Henrietta Mbeah-Bankas, head of blended learning and digital literacy project lead, Health Education England and Rosalind Penny, director of HR & OD, Integrated Care System for Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West. Chairing the discussion will be HSJ senior correspondent Annabelle Collins. This HSJ webinar, in association with NHS South, West and Central Commissioning Support Unit, will look at how the working lives of NHS staff – both clinical and non-clinical – will change, how to upskill existing staff with new skills and make their lives mote satisfying, and whether there are easy wins NHS organisations can aim for. Register
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EventChaired by Dr Caroline Walker Founder The Joyful Doctor; Psychiatrist and Specialist in Doctors’ Wellbeing, this conference focuses on supporting staff who have been involved in patient safety incidents, or are the subject of complaints or claims. Involvement in an incident, complaint or claim can have severe consequences on staff who may experience a range of reactions including stress, depression, shame and guilt. Download brochure Register
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'DO NO HARM' documentary screening
Patient Safety Learning posted an event in Community Calendar
untilA screening of 'DO NO HARM', a 60-minute documentary that discusses physician burnout and suicide followed by a 60-minute panel discussion. Doctors take an oath to save lives, yet they are taking their own at an alarming rate, trapped in a toxic healthcare system that puts their patients' lives at risk. This film and panel discussion bring awareness to the topic of this epidemic that's been covered up for decades until now. Register -
EventThis conference focuses on supporting staff who have been involved in patient safety incidents, or are the subject of complaints or claims. Involvement in an incident, complaint or claim can have severe consequences on staff who may experience a range of reactions including stress, depression, shame and guilt. This conference will enable you to: Network with colleagues who are working to support staff following incidents, complaints or claims. Understand national developments including the requirements in the 2020 Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Reflect on how we can better support staff experiencing these issues through COVID-19. Deliver a just culture that supports consistent, constructive and fair evaluation of the actions of staff involved in patient safety incidents. Reflect on a healthcare’s professionals personal experience of being the subject of an incident investigation. Improve immediate support and debriefing when an incident occurs. Develop your skills in providing the staff member involved in a patient safety incident specific individual support or intervention to work safely. Understand how you can improve processes for ensuring candour and supporting staff. Identify key strategies for interviewing staff and taking statements and preparing staff for Coroner’s Inquests. Ensure you are up to date with the latest developments in psychological support for staff including building resilience. Self assess and reflect on your own practice. Gain CPD accreditation points contributing to professional development and revalidation evidence. Register
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EventThis Hospital at Night Summit focuses on out of hours care in hospitals delivering high quality safe care at night. Through national updates, networking opportunities and case studies this conference provides a practical guide to delivering a high quality hospital at night, and moving forward during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference will also focus on improving staff well-being at night and reducing fatigue. For further information and to book or email: nicki@hc-uk.org.uk Follow the conference on Twitter #hospitalatnight hub members receive a 10% discount. Email: info@pslhub.org
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EventuntilThe uncertainty and anxiety that come with the experience of complexity can be overwhelming. It can be hard to think clearly and act wisely, and our wellbeing can easily suffer. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these experiences an everyday occurrence for many people, and the need for us to work clearly, wisely and healthily has never been more pressing. These Organisational Development workshops from the King's Fund will lift the lid on complexity. Together, you’ll explore how encouraging ourselves and others to understand and acknowledge the loss of control when faced with complexity can help us, our teams and our wider organisational systems survive and even thrive in conditions of uncertainty. The workshops will help you: make sense of the messy reality of complexity, accurately categorise different aspects of that reality and be able to choose appropriate, measured, responses understand your own preferences and strengths in relation to the complexity around you and develop strategies to stretch beyond them help yourself and others be their best during uncertain times. Join one or two sessions, or the whole series. Buy tickets
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EventThe uncertainty and anxiety that come with the experience of complexity can be overwhelming. It can be hard to think clearly and act wisely, and our wellbeing can easily suffer. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these experiences an everyday occurrence for many people, and the need for us to work clearly, wisely and healthily has never been more pressing. These Organisational Development workshops from the King's Fund will lift the lid on complexity. Together, you’ll explore how encouraging ourselves and others to understand and acknowledge the loss of control when faced with complexity can help us, our teams and our wider organisational systems survive and even thrive in conditions of uncertainty. The workshops will help you: make sense of the messy reality of complexity, accurately categorise different aspects of that reality and be able to choose appropriate, measured, responses understand your own preferences and strengths in relation to the complexity around you and develop strategies to stretch beyond them help yourself and others be their best during uncertain times. Join one or two sessions, or the whole series. Buy tickets
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EventuntilThe uncertainty and anxiety that come with the experience of complexity can be overwhelming. It can be hard to think clearly and act wisely, and our wellbeing can easily suffer. The COVID-19 pandemic has made these experiences an everyday occurrence for many people, and the need for us to work clearly, wisely and healthily has never been more pressing. These Organisational Development workshops from the King's Fund will lift the lid on complexity. Together, you’ll explore how encouraging ourselves and others to understand and acknowledge the loss of control when faced with complexity can help us, our teams and our wider organisational systems survive and even thrive in conditions of uncertainty. The workshops will help you: make sense of the messy reality of complexity, accurately categorise different aspects of that reality and be able to choose appropriate, measured, responses understand your own preferences and strengths in relation to the complexity around you and develop strategies to stretch beyond them help yourself and others be their best during uncertain times. Join one or two sessions, or the whole series. Buy tickets
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Content ArticleUK doctors have submitted an open letter to the BMA requesting their commitment to supporting and actively advocating for its members who are living with Long Covid.
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Content ArticleAfter 12 years of brutal service, Neil Barnard, an NHS emergency medicine consultant, is leaving his NHS post to work abroad. His decision to leave is driven by financial and personal reasons. More than anything, he says he's tired and has little more left to give to the NHS.
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Content ArticleIn this episode of Speak Up, Listen Up, Follow Up, Dr Jayne Chidgey-Clark, National Guardian for the NHS, speaks to Chris Hopson and Saffron Cordery, Chief executive and Deputy Chief executive of NHS Providers, about speaking up’s role in work force retention and how they will use speaking up in their new roles.
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Content ArticleThis article in the Nursing Times Long Covid series discusses how nurses are at high occupational risk of Long Covid and how best to support them.
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Content ArticleNursing workforce shortages are an issue of international concern, with the gap between demand for services and the limited numbers of nurses widening. Recruiting nurses internationally is one solution that is helping to bridge this gap in some health systems. This systematic review in the International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances aimed to explore the lived experiences of international nurses working and living in different countries globally. The authors identified factors that can help nurses from other countries to adapt culturally to the UK health system, and that may support retention of international staff. The authors found that in order to improve the long term retention of international nurses, cultural integration and language barriers should be sensitively managed to enable effective acculturation. Culturally sensitive leadership should also be promoted to ensure zero tolerance of inappropriate racist and discriminatory behaviours.
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In this blog, student midwife Sophie Dorman describes some of the issues that have led to a chronic shortage of midwives, including a culture of fear, poor pay and conditions and a lack of basic facilities for maternity staff. She highlights the impact this is having on the safety of maternity services and argues that valuing and looking after midwives will make pregnancy and childbirth safer and better for everyone. -
Content ArticleThe NHS is not in a place where it can lose staff, but many workers in the health service have faced almost unimaginable difficulties during the pandemic. How worried should we be about NHS staff health and wellbeing? Nigel Edwards and Andy Cowper look at how bad the situation is and what can be done to improve things.
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Content ArticleMany people don’t receive enough support both to find and stay in work when experiencing mental health difficulties. The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych) have launched a new occupational mental health guidance with recommendations for the government, NHS, and psychiatrists. The guidelines highlight the crucial, positive role that ‘good work’ can have on an individual’s mental health, and how poor experience of work both risks exacerbating pre-existing poor mental health and/or contributing to the emergence of a mental health condition. It provides advice and recommendations to the key organisations and individuals who have a role in ensuring work makes a positive impact on mental health.
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Content ArticleEven before the pandemic struck, there was a shortage of nurses in the UK. In January 2020, a survey by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) found that almost three-quarters of nurses said the staffing level on their last shift was not sufficient to meet the needs of patients safely and effectively. Yet this month NHS England predicted that the government will not meet its manifesto pledge to boost the NHS’s nursing workforce by 50,000 by March 2024. The key reason? NHS workers are quitting in droves, citing burnout, fatigue and pay as factors. Filling these gaps are nurses from overseas. Recently released figures for 2021 and 2022 from the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) show that record numbers of nurses trained overseas are coming to work in the UK – almost half of new registrations. The Guardian spoke to four of them about their experience working in the UK.
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Surviving in Scrubs campaign
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Staff safety
Sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault are commonplace in the healthcare workforce. Too many healthcare staff have witnessed or been subject to it… the female med student asked to stay late lone working with a senior male doctor, being looked over for opportunities at work, unwelcome touching at conferences, comments on your looks… the list goes on. A 2021 survey from the BMA reported 91% of women doctors had experienced sexism in the last 2 years and 47% felt they had been treated less favourably due to their gender. Over half of the women (56%) said that they had received unwanted verbal comments relating to their gender and 31% said that they had experienced unwanted physical conduct. Despite these statistics these issues remain endemic in healthcare. The Surviving in Scrubs campaign, created by Dr Becky Cox and Dr Chelcie Jewitt, aims to tackle this problem, giving a voice to women and non-binary survivors in healthcare to raise awareness and end sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault in healthcare. You can share your story through the Submit Your Story page anonymously and the story will be published on the Your Stories page. This will create a narrative of shared experiences that cannot be ignored. -
Content ArticleOne of the reasons why patient safety may be put at risk during healthcare interventions is a lack of staff adherence to patient safety guidelines. There could be a relationship between staff’s adherence to patient safety guidelines and their perceived level of reward for their work and/or motivation. This study from Asmoro et al. examined the relationship between reward and adherence to patient safety guidelines, and between motivation and adherence to patient safety guidelines, among nurses working in emergency departments (EDs) in Indonesia. They found that ensuring ED nurses are motivated for their work by offering rewards – such as a decent salary, a supportive workplace environment and career progression opportunities – is important to enhance their adherence to patient safety guidelines.
