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Content ArticleThe Fit and Proper Person Test (FPPT) Framework has been developed by NHS England in response to recommendations made by Tom Kark KC in his 2019 review of the FPPT (the Kark Revew). This framework introduces a means of retaining information relating to testing the requirements of the FPPT for individual directors, a set of standard competencies for all board directors, a new way of completing references with additional content whenever a director leaves an NHS board, and extension of the applicability to some other organisations, including NHS England and the CQC. It will help prevent directors who have been involved in or enabled serious misconduct or mismanagement from joining a new NHS organisation.
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Content ArticleThis is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Judi talks to us about her experience of managing patient safety for a large healthcare provider, the importance of ensuring implemented safety standards are sustained and how crucial it is to professionalise patient safety.
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Content ArticleAuthors conducted a before and after, retrospective, observational study using anonymised, routinely collected, patient-level data from a single English NHS ED between April 2018 and December 2019. The primary outcomes of interest were the proportion of admitted patients, that is, the admission rate, the length of stay in the ED and ambulance handover times. They used interrupted time series models to study and estimate the impact of removing the 4-hour access standard.
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Content ArticleThis investigation aims to improve patient safety by supporting healthcare staff in a surgical setting to select and insert the appropriate type of implant (vascular graft) for haemodialysis treatment. The Healthcare and Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) explored the factors that affect the ability of staff to safely select and insert vascular grafts for haemodialysis treatment. The national investigation focused on: The identification of factors within the healthcare system as a whole that influence patient safety risks associated with the selection and insertion of vascular grafts in an operating theatre environment. Exploration, using a systems approach, of the design of labelling and packaging used for the different types of vascular grafts for patients on haemodialysis treatment. Exploration of the impact on operating theatre teams of staff redeployment and repurposing of working environments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Duty of Candour for Wales
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The Duty of Candour for Wales statutory guidance.- Posted
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Content ArticleWales' national policy on patient safety incident reporting and management.
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Content ArticleOn Monday 10 July 2023 the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) and Patient Safety Learning jointly hosted a webinar on the new National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures 2 (NatSSIPs 2). This article contains links to video recordings of this webinar.
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Content ArticleThe Professional Standards Authority (PSA) oversees the work of 10 statutory bodies that regulate health and social care professionals in the UK. In undertaking this oversight role, PSA strive to strike a proper balance between scrutiny on the one hand, and advice and support on the other. During 2022/23 they implemented changes to their performance review processes to ensure they continue to be proportionate and that they contribute to improvements in professional regulation. This year PSA have made further improvements to their performance reviews for the statutory regulators in health and social care and to their Accredited Registers programme. They published their Safer care for all report in September 2022.
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Content ArticleThe Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals address patient care and safety to give healthcare organisations a framework for improvement. This article from the University of Southern California takes a look at the current National Patient Safety Goals, the role of healthcare administration in patient safety, strategies to implement safety goals in hospitals and evaluating the effectiveness of safety goals.
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Content ArticleThe Professional Standards Authority (PSA) commissioned this research to help inform a consistent and appropriate approach by the regulators and registers towards the various types of discrimination in health and care. The research was undertaken to help PSA understand better the views of the public and service users on the following key questions: What constitutes discriminatory behaviour in the context of health and care? What impact discriminatory behaviour may have on both public safety and confidence? Through looking at these two areas, the research also drew out views from participants on how health and care professional regulators should respond to different types of discriminatory behaviour.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning has developed a unique set of patient safety standards, resources and tools to help organisations not only establish clearly defined patient safety aims and goals, but also support their delivery and demonstrate achievement. This page provides an overview of our Standards with links to further information.
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PIT stop (prosthesis/implant timeout) checklist
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The PIT stop (prosthesis/implant timeout) checklist is Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Trust's visual and aid memoir. It was launched to limit 'human error' and thus preventing never events (wrong implant/prosthesis). The four steps cover the intra-operative stages when implants are required. It works by recording what is requested on a small, hand held white board, and works in harness with the NatSSIPs 8, specifically step 5 of the infographic that has been previously developed.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis standard has been produced by NHS England to promote consistent delivery and quality of specialist orthodontic care provision to patients in England. It aims to ensure that resources invested by the NHS in specialist care are used in the most effective way, provide the best possible quality and quantity of care for patients and meet need rather than serve demand. The standard includes the following information: What is orthodontics? Complexity assessment Illustrative patient journey Assessing need Understanding current provision Model of care Clinical standard National key performance indicators Quality and outcome measures
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Content ArticleThis paper from Roberts et al. examines the application of the Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) within NHS hospital operating theatres England. The aim of the study, through a combination of open-ended questions, was to solicit specific information including views and opinions from operating theatre experts to establish from how the World Health Organisations (WHO) SSC is being applied, and therefore and why intraoperative ‘Never Events’ continue to occur more than a decade after the SSC was introduced. Participants were from the seven regions identified by NHS England. The intention of this paper is not to establish definitively whether the quantitatively identified themes; including a lack of training and engagement with human factors explains the increased presence of intraoperative ‘Never Events’. However, these themes, when subjected to methodological triangulation with the current literature, do appear consistent, and therefore provide an exploratory approach to inform research intended to improve safety in the operating theatre by informing policy and its application to safe practice ultimately towards quality improvements.
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Community Pharmacy Standard (PRSB, May 2023)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Community pharmacies
Community pharmacies are offering an increased range of services to support care for people in the community. It is therefore essential that they are able to record and share vital information about a person’s care with GP practices and other services. Using digital standards, we can ensure that care professionals and citizens have timely access to relevant information, leading to better, safer and more personalised care in the community. This Community Pharmacy Standard developed by the Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) defines the information that should be recorded in the community pharmacy and sent to the person’s GP, for all the services covered by the English Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework.- Posted
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Content ArticleReport from the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (now the Professional Standards Authority). The CHRE was commissioned in July 2011 to advise the Secretary of State for Health on standards of personal behaviour, technical competence and business practices for members of NHS boards and Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) governing bodies in England. This report presents their findings and advice.
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Content ArticleStandardised data and integration of systems are vital for full traceability, improving patient safety, and enabling swift action in healthcare incidents. The PIP breast implant scandal was not the first and transvaginal mesh will not be the last. In fact, the next national patient safety scandal is likely manifesting today. “There needs to be better processes to ‘track and trace’ patients who have received a device when a problem arises,” says Professor Sir Terence Stephenson, Nuffield professor of child health at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and chair of the Health Research Authority for England, in the Scan4Safety 2020 report. “Clear strategies and channels are needed to inform patients, the public and clinical professionals to help improve safety.” One common denominator among such incidents is the lack of traceability – limited visibility of the devices used, when and where they are used and, most importantly, in or on which patients. This is where standardised data comes into play. There is no shortage of data in the NHS. However, the ability to standardise and share that data between systems and organisations is something the health service as a whole still lacks. Today, achieving full traceability remains a key challenge for the NHS, with repercussions that continue to have a detrimental effect on patient care.
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Content ArticleThis is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Maureen discusses the important role of professional standards in building a patient safety infrastructure, the need to reframe safety as a positive idea and her experience of implementing learning processes during her time as a GP.
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PRSB: Wound care standard
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Patient safety standards
Wound care is a critical aspect of healthcare that affects people of all ages. The National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP) is addressing the unwarranted variation in wound care services, not enough use of evidence-based practices and use of ineffective practices. The NWCSP’s goal is to reduce pain and suffering for patients, improve healing rates, prevent wounds from happening or coming back, and use healthcare resources more efficiently. PRSB’s wound care standard will help to support this goal by encouraging use of evidences-based practice and consistent recording of information which can be shared with all those involved in the person’s care. The standard defines the information record content for the management of wound care. It is designed to support the professionals and those providing care as well as the person themselves, and to support the national wound care strategy.- Posted
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GPs to follow new digital standard for sending medicines and allergy information
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
A new information standard has been developed for sharing digital information on medication and allergies across different parts of health and social care services. The standard, which aims to reduce medicines errors comes into effect this month. NHS and social care organisations will have to show compliance by March 2023. GP practices, hospitals, mental health trusts, pharmacists, community teams and residential care homes will all have to meet the standard when transferring medication and prescription information between teams. The standard will be particularly helpful in reducing medication errors when patients transfer between care locations NHS Digital said. Having specific requirements in place for how medicine and allergy information is transferred will also provide clinicians with a more detailed and consistent source of medicines related information across all care settings and allow them to obtain medicines information more quickly and efficiently, they added in a document outlining the changes. The standard defines how the send and receive messages involving medicines information are constructed, and how the data within is structured so that it is machine-readable when sent between different IT systems. Dr Simon Eccles, deputy CEO of NHSX and national chief clinical information officer said: ‘This new standard will make medicine prescribing safer for patients and easier for clinicians, reducing errors in prescription and improving the monitoring of medications that can cause harm. ‘This is the result of a true collaborative effort between NHSX, NHS Digital, industry and the frontline that will make a real difference to the care and support local clinicians can provide to their patients." Read full story Source: Pulse, 28 October 2021- Posted
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Safer standards for nursing care unveiled as public fear effect of shortages
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
New standards for the safe working of nurses across hospital wards, care homes and in the community have been set out by the Royal College of Nursing, for the first time in its 100 year history. In a bid to underline the safety-critical nature of expert nurses in healthcare, the RCN hopes the minimum standards will be used to force improvements in safe staffing levels and the treatment of nurses across the country by NHS trusts and other employers. It comes as a new poll finds a majority of adults believe there are not enough nurses to provide safe care. There are 50,000 nursing vacancies across the NHS and research has repeatedly shown having degree-educated nurses leads to better patient safety. A major study across 500 hospitals in 12 European countries found for every extra patient a nurse was expected to look after, the chances of the patient dying increased 7%. Other studies have shown replacing degree-educated nurses with less educated staff led to an increase in mortality of 21%. Despite the research, the UK government and NHS England has consistently opposed tougher ratios of nurses to patients and has invested in new non-degree roles to fill gaps in staffing. Read full story Source: The Independent, 9 May 2021 -
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PRSB to develop a new nursing standard
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Nurses are a crucial part of care across a wide range of sectors, with patients and other professionals often reliant on their expertise. That’s why the Professional Records Standard Body (PRSB) has been asked to develop a new nursing standard by NHSx for use across all the different health and social care settings. The standard aims to improve quality and safety of care in key nurse-led areas, including care planning. It will reflect best practice and standardise documentation across different nursing settings, to free nurses and give them more time to care. For example, it will standardise information that a district nurse in a care home setting can access and share in the same way as a mental health or hospital nurse, with a focus on the person’s overall wellbeing. Read full story Source: PRSB, 30 March 2021 -
EventWebinar to report on progress with updating the ISO 23908 standard on safety mechanisms in the design and manufacture of devices and the prevention of sharps injuries. See the agenda below. Agenda for webinar on 22.06.22 at 09.00 updating the ISO 23908 standard on safety mechanisms and the prevention of sharps injuries.docx Click here to join the meeting
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PRSB: Overprescribing standard
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untilAround 1 in 5 hospital admissions in over-65s and around 6.5% of total hospital admissions are caused by the adverse effects of medicines. Prescribing people medicines that they neither need nor want can lead to serious harm, as identified in the Government’s 2021 National overprescribing review report. This is why the PRSB has been tasked with reviewing and revising our eDischarge summary standard and supporting documentation to ensure it addresses the issue of #oveprescribing and provide useful guidance to help users address issues. To do this, we are holding an online consultation with organisations who endorsed the 2017 eDischarge standard, the individuals and representatives who participated in the standard’s development consultations, those who have since implemented the 2017 standard and frontline health and care professionals – particularly prescribers – and people. Data standards ensure that people’s medicines information is recorded in a single, digital space that is at less risk of human error than if recorded on paper. Standards also allow for this information to be recorded in a common way that is shareable and readable across different computer systems in different care settings, for care at the point of need. Read more about how standards can support medicines reconciliation and reduce overprescribing: https://theprsb.org/prsb-response-to-national-over-prescribing-review-report/ Register- Posted
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