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Ambulance handover to emergency care standard V1.0
Claire Cox posted an article in Handover
Emergency care needs fast, effective sharing of information. When clinicians have access to the information they need, they can better ensure safe and high-quality care for patients. To facilitate this, the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has developed a standard for the information that is shared when care is transferred from ambulances to emergency departments. Once implemented, the standard for handover will improve continuity of care, as emergency care will have the information they need available to them on a timely basis. Whichever ambulance service brings the patient to the hospital, there will be a consistent set of information available to the emergency department. It means that patient safety will be improved, because emergency care professionals will know what medications have been administered, what diagnostic tests have been done, whether the patient has any allergies and other important information. Sharing clinical information with emergency care will also support professionals in arranging patient discharge and preventing unnecessary admissions. -
Content ArticleThe Magnet Recognition Program designates organisations worldwide where nursing leaders successfully align their nursing strategic goals to improve the organisation's patient outcomes. The Magnet Recognition Program provides a road map to nursing excellence. Research has documented an association between hospitals with Magnet recognition and better outcomes for nurses and patients. However, little longitudinal evidence exists to support a causal link between Magnet recognition and outcomes. This study compares changes over time in surgical patient outcomes, nurse-reported quality, and nurse outcomes in a sample of hospitals that attained Magnet recognition between 1999 and 2007 with hospitals that remained non-Magnet.
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Content ArticleThis document sets out Barts Health Local Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (LocSSIPs) based on the National National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs). It includes eight sequential steps that are reinforced with clear organisational standards. These standards are a minimum, based on national best practice, to improve safety. They apply to all staff and all services that perform invasive procedures at Barts Health NHS Trust.
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Content ArticleThis quality standard from the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE), covers preventing and controlling infection in adults, young people and children receiving healthcare in primary, community and secondary care settings. It includes preventing healthcare-associated infections that develop because of treatment or from being in a healthcare setting. It describes high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
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WHO: Perth declaration for patient safety (July 2009)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in WHO
The Inaugural Australian Patients for Patient Safety Workshop, held over 3 days in Perth from July 7 ‐9, 2009, brought together a group of 40 health consumers, many of whom had experienced medical error or health system failure, health providers and health policy makers from around Australia. Participants were selected for their efforts as change agents who have worked proactively to improve the safety of health care in Australia and their desire to further improve safety in health care, in partnership. Participants came together to build trust, functional working relationships grounded in mutual respect and appreciation of what each brought to the field of patient safety and to form strategies and action plans for improving patient safety in Australia. The core of those strategies and action plans is the Perth Declaration for Patient Safety. -
Content ArticleEarlier this year, the World Health Organization declared 17 September the first World Patient Day and presented it as an opportunity to speak up for patient safety. A week or so beforehand, health leaders from across the world had met in Salzburg, Austria, at the request of Salzburg Global Seminar and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to explore ways of improving the measurement of patient safety. The Lucian Leape Institute, an initiative of the IHI, led the convening and content curation. Participants of Moving measurement into action: designing global principles for measuring patient safety agreed that there is no single measure that allows all stakeholders in all settings to assess the past, current, and future safety of their system. Participants agreed a system of measures must be carefully designed to assess the safety of patients throughout their health journey. The conversations in Salzburg have helped establish eight global principles for the measurement of patient safety. They feature in this new document, Salzburg Statement on Moving Measurement into Action: Global Principles for Measuring Patient Safety.
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Content ArticleTo ensure consistency and effectiveness of responses to health information under threat, Alberta Health has instituted the Provincial Reportable Incident Response Process (PRIRP) for all health stakeholders managing or accessing Alberta’s provincial Electronic Health Record (EHR), including its subsystems and repositories. This process covers incidents of data confidentiality, data integrity, and data availability and is divided into five phases. PRIRP is applicable to all health stakeholders managing, accessing, or regulating Alberta’s EHR, including its subsystems and repositories. • Health stakeholders use PRIRP to report a suspected or known security incident to Alberta Health. Alberta Health will assess the threat from the incident, and if valid will assemble an Incident Response Team (IRT). The IRT will be led by the Alberta Health Security team and include the reporting health stakeholder(s) and other applicable resources for any particular incident. The IRT will communicate as needed with other stakeholders impacted by the incident.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of the International Classification for Patient Safety (ICPS) is to enable categorisation of patient safety information using standardized sets of concepts with agreed definitions, preferred terms and the relationships between them being based on an explicit domain ontology (e.g., patient safety). The ICPS is designed to be a genuine convergence of international perceptions of the main issues related to patient safety and to facilitate the description, comparison, measurement, monitoring, analysis and interpretation of information to improve patient care. Download visual representation of the framework
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Content ArticleThe Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) use clinical advice as a key source of evidence to inform their thinking in around three quarters of their health investigations. It is crucial that they commission and use clinical advice correctly. It is also important that those involved in a complaint understand and have confidence in the way it has informed decisions. To meet a commitment they made in their new strategy for 2018-21, the PHSO carried out a major review of the way they use clinical advice when they investigate NHS complaints.
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NHS Constitution for England (updated 2015)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Good practice
The principles and values of the NHS in England, and information on how to make a complaint about NHS services. -
Content ArticleThis powerful blog by Sarah Seddon discusses her experience during a 'fitness to practice' hearing. Sarah is a clinical pharmacist, however , has now found herself as a witness following the tragic death of her son Thomas. This blog explains what it is like for the witness during the process and how it made her feel.
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WHO: Patient Safety – Making health care safer (May 2017)
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in WHO
Patient Safety: Making health care safer illustrates the importance of safe care for everyone, what the burden and impact of unsafe care is, and WHO’s approach to tackling the issue of unsafe care. The brochure also contains a comprehensive collation of key WHO materials and activities in to generate improvements at the front line. -
Content ArticleThis policy confirms the process for reviewing deaths within Lincolnshire Community Health Services (LCHS) to ensure a consistent approach is followed in order to identify if the patient’s needs were met during the end of life phase and that relatives and carers were supported appropriately. The aim of the mortality review process is to identify any areas of practice that require improvement and to identify areas of good practice. This process ensures that mortality within LCHS is managed and reviewed in a systematic way.
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Bottle of Lies by Katherine Eban
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Recommended books and literature
The troubles of Indian pharma companies abroad raise questions about the domestic drug regulator. Although Bottle of Lies, a book about the quality problems plaguing generic drugs, focuses on medicines intended for American consumers, the real and continuing victims of the failings described in the book are consumers in developing countries, including Indians. In May 2013, soon after the erstwhile Ranbaxy Laboratories admitted in an American court to selling adulterated drugs, journalist Katherine Eban published a gripping 10,000-word account of the saga in Fortune magazine. But the story left Eban wondering if Ranbaxy was an isolated case. Could there be more rotten eggs, she asked, given the United States Food & Drugs Administration’s (FDA) lax policing of overseas manufacturers? Bottle of Lies is the result of the multi-year investigation that followed. -
Content ArticleThe Care Quality Commission (CGC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. They make sure that health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. Independent acute hospitals play an important role in delivering healthcare services in England, providing a range of services, including surgery, diagnostics and medical care. As the independent regulator, the CQC, hold all providers of healthcare to the same standards, regardless of how they are funded.
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Content ArticleCollecting feedback on the care provided to bereaved families and carers following the death of a child or young person is of critical importance to improving bereavement care. Whilst some local healthcare systems have well-established mechanisms and questionnaires for collecting such feedback, many have indicated that they do not and would value guidance in this area.
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Content ArticleFor more than 25 years, the US Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has used improvement science to advance and sustain better outcomes in health and health care across the world. They bring awareness of safety and quality to millions, accelerate learning and the systematic improvement of care, develop solutions to previously intractable challenges, and mobilise health systems, communities, regions, and nations to reduce harm and deaths. They work in collaboration with the growing IHI community to spark bold, inventive ways to improve the health of individuals and populations. They generate optimism, harvest fresh ideas, and support anyone, anywhere who wants to profoundly change health and health care for the better.
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What is the General Medical Council (GMC)?
Claire Cox posted an article in General Medical Council (GMC)
The General Medical Council (GMC) work to protect patient safety and support medical education and practice across the UK. They do this by working with doctors, employers, educators, patients and other key stakeholders in the UK's healthcare systems. -
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What is the Care Quality Commission (CQC)?
Claire Cox posted an article in Care Quality Commission (CQC)
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) are the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to improve. -
Content ArticleAs the professional regulator of nurses and midwives in the UK, and nursing associates in England, the Nursing and Midwifery Council work to ensure these professionals have the knowledge and skills to deliver consistent, quality care that keeps people safe.
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Content ArticleEngaging with general practices during inspections gives valuable insight into their experiences. Feedback shows that although inspection reports highlight the areas of concern and risk that need to improve, practices want to know more about how to actually improve from a rating of 'requires improvement' or 'inadequate'. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) selected 10 practices throughout the country that had each made significant improvements from their initial inspection to their most recent, and whose overall rating had improved. These 10 case studies highlight some clear actions that other practices can use to help them learn and improve.
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Content ArticleThe Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) regulates medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion in the UK. MHRA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department of Health and Social Care. Recognised globally as an authority in its field, the agency plays a leading role in protecting and improving public health and supports innovation through scientific research and development. The agency has 3 centres: Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), a data research service that aims to improve public health by using anonymised NHS clinical data the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC), a global leader in the standardisation and control of biological medicines the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the UK’s regulator of medicines, medical devices and blood components for transfusion, responsible for ensuring their safety, quality and effectiveness.
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Content ArticleTogether with 28 organisations from across the dental sector, the General Dental Council (GDC) has developed a set of universal principles for handling complaints about dental professionals. The six core principles provide a simple template for best practice, helping professionals and patients to get the most from feedback and complaints, for the benefit of all.
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Standards for the Dental Team (September 2013)
Claire Cox posted an article in General Dental Council (GDC)
Standards for the Dental Team sets out the standards of conduct, performance and ethics that govern you as a dental professional. -
Content ArticleA Quality Account is an annual report which providers of NHS healthcare services must publish about the quality of services they provide. This quality account covers the services provided by Virgin Care. Virgin Care delivers services on behalf of NHS Dartford, Gravesham & Swanley, and Swale Clinical Commissioning Groups in North Kent, and is one of a number of providers of health and care services locally.
