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Content ArticleAn increasing number of studies show that when patterns of care are widely divergent, clinical outcomes suffer and, as a result, safety and reliability may be compromised. This article from Rozich et al. discusses how standardisation may help to increase uniformity of practice, increase safety, and possibly reduce costs. Also described is an effort made by Luther Midlefort, Mayo Health System, to reduce variation by creating a system-wide protocol for insulin use. After six weeks, Luther Midelfort achieved a great reduction in the number of hypoglycaemic events as a result of standardised practices.
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Content ArticleDespite its success in other industries, process standardisation in healthcare has been slow to gain traction or to demonstrate a positive impact on the safety of care. The High 5s project is a global patient safety initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO) to facilitate the development, implementation and evaluation of Standard Operating Protocols (SOPs) within a global learning community to achieve measurable, significant and sustainable reductions in challenging patient safety problems. The project seeks to answer two questions: (i) Is it feasible to implement standardized health care processes in individual hospitals, among multiple hospitals within individual countries and across country boundaries? (ii) If so, what is the impact of standardization on the safety problems that the project is targeting? Three SOPs—correct surgery, medication reconciliation, concentrated injectable medicines—have been developed and are being implemented and evaluated in multiple hospitals in seven participating countries. Nearly 5 years into the implementation, it is clear that this is just the beginning of what can be seen as an exercise in behaviour management, asking whether healthcare workers can adapt their behaviours and environments to standardise care processes in widely varying hospital settings.
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Content ArticleIn this guest blog for the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB), Taffy Gatawa, Chief Information and Compliance Officer at everyLIFE Technologies, talks about the importance of ensuring that healthcare technologies comply with recognised standards. She discusses everyLIFE's experience on PRSB’s Standards Partnership Scheme, and their journey to implementing standards in their digital products. Taffy describes a process of learning and feedback, achieved through desktop research, clinical reviews and critical engagement with PRSB and customers.
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Content ArticleThe International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) aims to strengthen Midwives Associations and advance the profession of midwifery globally. These resources from the ICM provide guidance for midwives on: Policy and practice Advocacy Education Regulation Association Covid-19 Respectful maternity care Mentoring
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Content ArticleInfection prevention and control (IPC) programmes and practices play a vital role to ensure outbreak preparedness and control, including patient safety and quality of care, which remain essential components of universal health coverage across health systems worldwide. However, detailed IPC evaluations using standardised validated tools, such as the WHO IPC self-assessment framework (IPCAF), are limited. Tomczyk et al. have conducted the first WHO global survey to assess implementation of these programmes in healthcare facilities. IPC professionals were invited through global outreach and national coordinated efforts to complete the online WHO IPC assessment framework (IPCAF). The study found that despite an overall high IPCAF score globally, important gaps in IPC facility implementation and core components across income levels hinder IPC progress. Increased support for more effective and sustainable IPC programmes is crucial to reduce risks posed by outbreaks to global health security and to ensure patient and health worker safety.
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Content ArticleThe Independent Healthcare Providers Network (IHPN) has launched a “refresh” of its Medical Practitioners Assurance Framework (MPAF), designed to further improve the safety and quality of care independent providers deliver to patients. The MPAF – led by former National NHS Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh – contains key principles to strengthen and build upon the medical governance systems already in place in the sector and sets out expected practice in a number of key areas.
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The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) provides comparable and actionable data and information that are used to accelerate improvements in health care, health system performance and population health across Canada. Stakeholders use the broad range of health system databases, measurements and standards, together with the evidence-based reports and analyses, in their decision-making processes.- Posted
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ISO 45001, Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements with guidance for use, is the world’s first International Standard for occupational health and safety (OH&S). It provides a framework to increase safety, reduce workplace risks and enhance health and well-being at work, enabling an organisation to proactively improve its OH&S performance- Posted
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Content ArticleISO 45001 is an international standard for health and safety at work developed by national and international standards committees independent of government. Introduced in March 2018, it replaces the current standard (BS OHSAS 18001) which will be withdrawn. Businesses have a three-year period to move from the old standard to the new one. You're not required by law to implement ISO 45001 or other similar management standards, but they can help provide a structured framework for ensuring a safe and healthy workplace.
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Content ArticleThe Care Quality Commission provides answers to the following common myths.
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Content ArticleMedication errors present a major public health burden and there is a need to optimise risk minimisation and prevention of medication errors through the existing regulatory framework. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) in collaboration with the EU regulatory network was mandated to develop regulatory guidance for medication errors, taking into account the recommendations of a stakeholder workshop held in London in 2013. This guidance is intended to support the implementation of the new legal provisions regarding the reporting, evaluation and prevention of medication errors and is intended mainly for the pharmaceutical industry and national competent authorities. Healthcare professionals (HCP) are expected to consult national clinical guidance on reducing the risk of medication errors.
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Content ArticleLast week the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA) published a new report, Safer care for all – solutions from professional regulation and beyond, which examines the current state of professional health and care regulation in the UK. In this blog, Patient Safety Learning considers this report from a patient safety perspective. PSA's chief executive, Alan Clamp, has also written a blog for the hub on the report, which can be read here.
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Content ArticleIn this report the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care sets out its view on the biggest challenges affecting the quality and safety of health and social care. It puts forward a number of recommendations to ensure safer care for all, with its main recommendation being that an independent Health and Social Care Safety Commissioner should be appointed for each UK country to identify current, emerging and potential risks across the whole health and social care system, and bring about the necessary action across organisations.
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Content ArticleThe National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) is an independent body composed of 27 national organisations. In 1995, the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP) spearheaded the formation of the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention: Leading national health care organizations are meeting, collaborating, and cooperating to address the interdisciplinary causes of errors and to promote the safe use of medications.
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Content ArticleThe General Medical Council (GMC) is the UK's statutory body responsible for taking action to prevent a doctor from putting the safety and confidence of patients at risk. In this blog for The Spectator, doctor Max Pemberton argues that the GMC has lost the trust of doctors by bringing a series of inappropriate cases, resulting in the British Medical Association (BMA) calling for an overhaul of how the GMC is run. He describes some recent investigations as being about 'petty' issues and highlights the significant impact being under investigation can have on doctors' mental health.
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Content ArticleThis document provides the principles, concepts, terms and definitions for health software and health IT systems, key properties of safety, effectiveness and security, across the full life cycle, from concept to decommissioning. It also identifies the transition points in the life cycle where transfers of responsibility occur, and the types of multi-lateral communication that are necessary at these transition points. This document also establishes a coherent concepts and terminology for other standards that address specific aspects of the safety, effectiveness, and security (including privacy) of health software and health IT systems.
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Content ArticleThe Professional Standards Authority (PSA) are an independent body, accountable to the UK Parliament. PSA helps to protect the public through their work with organisations that register and regulate people working in health and social care: PSA oversee 10 statutory bodies that regulate health and social care professionals in the UK. PSA accredit registers of health and care professionals held by non-statutory bodies. PSA aim to improve regulation by providing advice to UK government and others, conducting/ commissioning research and promoting the principles of right-touch regulation. Here is a snapshot of the work they have done in 2020/21.
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Content ArticleThe Professional Standards Authority (PSA) performance reviews look at a regulators’ performance against PSA's Standards of Good Regulation, which describe the outcomes regulators are expected to achieve. They cover the key areas of the regulators’ work, together with the more general expectations about the way in which regulators are expected to act. Here is the review of the General Osteopathic Council performance review.
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Content ArticleThe Professional Standards Authority (PSA) performance reviews look at a regulators’ performance against PSA's Standards of Good Regulation, which describe the outcomes regulators are expected to achieve. They cover the key areas of the regulators’ work, together with the more general expectations about the way in which regulators are expected to act. Here is the review of the Health and Care Professions Council performance review.
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Content ArticleThe International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organisation for standardisation comprising all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote international co-operation on all questions concerning standardisation in the electrical and electronic fields. This part of IEC 62366 specifies a process for a manufacturer to analyse, specify, develop and evaluate the usability of a medical device as it relates to safety. This usability engineering (human factors engineering) process permits the manufacturer to assess and mitigate risks associated with correct use and use errors, i.e., normal use. It can be used to identify but does not assess or mitigate risks associated with abnormal use.
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Content ArticleThese Quality Standards have been developed by the Resuscitation Council UK. They enable healthcare organisations provide a high-quality resuscitation service, with guidance tailored for different settings including acute care, primary care, dental care, mental health units, community hospitals and in the community.
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Content ArticleThis thesis by Suzette Woodward describes a project that aimed to identify how the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) could support improvement in implementing patient safety guidance. It explored the factors that help or hinder successful implementation and its findings led to the design and development of an implementation toolkit, initially targeted at NPSA staff and other national bodies responsible for issuing guidance about safer practices.
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