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Content ArticleAqua recently convened a selection of expert panellists to a round table discussion, chaired by Professor Ted Baker, to consider ‘what does safety look like at a system level?’ and discuss the key issues and help support the development of Integrated Care Systems. This report captures the key themes covered in this discussion.
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Content ArticleSometimes after an incident, a system-wide change is implemented that makes work more difficult and creates new problems. This story from aviation is one such example, which contains useful lessons for responding to rare events. Steven Shorrock recounts the tale.
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Content ArticleThe Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) will transition into new arms-length body The Healthcare Services Safety Investigation Body (HSSIB) in October 2023. In this article, HSSIB's Chair Designate, Ted Baker, reflects on: how the Francis Inquiry was instrumental in changing the view of patient safety in the NHS. the role of HSIB over the last five years in identifying systemic causes of patient harm. what the future holds for HSSIB.
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Content ArticleAqua recently convened a selection of expert panellists to a round table discussion, considering ‘What does safety look like at a system level?’. The round table was chaired by Professor Ted Baker, who led the discussion around the key issues facing Integrated Care Systems and how we can help support their development.
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Content ArticlePoster presentation from Dr Felicity Brokke and Ken Spearpoint at the recent GOSH Patient Safety and Human Factors Conference.
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Content ArticleThis video offers an introduction to the Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) framework, an approach that looks at work systems and processes from a systems-based perspective. SEIPS is the main model used within the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) adopted by the NHS. This video includes an explanation of the model and a dramatisation of the process of making a round of tea in a staff room, illustrating the error traps and design issues present in the environment.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Patient Safety Learning looks in detail at the results of the NHS Staff Survey 2022, focusing on responses relating to reporting, speaking up and acting on safety concerns. It includes the following key points: It is difficult to imagine other safety critical industries would deem these results acceptable. Nearly half of all respondents did not feel confident their organisation would address their concerns about unsafe clinical practice. It is hugely concerning that over 40% of respondents could not say that they would be treated fairly if involved in a patient safety incident. This could significantly undermine the willingness of staff to raise concerns, with significant consequences for patient safety. There needs to be greater urgency to improve the safety culture in the health service. NHS England needs to recognise the scale of this challenge and provide clarity on how it will work with organisations to tackle this. NHS England, working in partnership with the National Guardian and the Care Quality Commission, should bring forward as a matter of urgency robust and specific commitments to drive forward the work of improving the safety culture in the NHS.
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Content ArticleThe Resilient Health Care Society (RHCS) is a non-profit organisation registered in Sweden. The goal of the Society is to provide an international forum for coordination and exchange of principles, practices, and experiences, by bringing together researchers and professionals working with or interested in Resilient Health Care. Research and practice in Resilient Health Care aims to develop and promote practical solutions, based on a solid scientific foundation, to ensure that health care systems can perform as intended under expected and unexpected conditions alike. Links to some of their publications can be found below.
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Content ArticleWithin the last two decades, it has been commonly agreed that patient safety and error management in healthcare organizations can best be attained by adopting a systems approach via re-engineering efforts and the introduction of industrial safety technologies and methodologies. This strategy has not delivered the expected result. Based on John Dewey’s pragmatism, in this study Kirstine Z. Pedersen and Jessica Mesman propose another vocabulary for understanding, inquiring into and learning from safety situations in healthcare. Drawing especially on Dewey’s understanding of transaction as the inseparability between human and environment, they develop an analytical approach to patient safety understood as a transactional accomplishment thoroughly dependent on the quality of situated and shared habits and collaborative practices in healthcare. They further illustrate methodologically how a transactional attitude can be situationally practised through video-reflexive ethnography, a method that allows for inquiry into mundane safety practices by letting interprofessional teams see, reflect upon and possibly modify their shared practices and safety habits.
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Content ArticleEurocontrol’s HindSight magazine is a magazine on human and organisational factors in operations, in air traffic management and beyond. This issue has articles from front-line staff and specialists in safety, human factors, and human and organisational performance, in aviation and elsewhere. The articles cover all aspects of everyday work, including routine work, unwanted events, and excellence. The authors discuss a variety of ways to learn from everyday work, including observation, discussion, surveys, reflection, and data analysis. There are articles on specific topics to help learn from others’ experience, including from other sectors in ‘views from elsewhere’
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning recently interviewed Keith Conradi, former HSIB chief executive, on why healthcare needs to operate as a safety management system. In this interview, we speak to Jono Broad, part of the South West Integrated Personalised Care team at NHS England, to hear his response to this, how patients, families and relatives can get involved, and why we need to really embed patient safety in a management culture and a healthcare management system.
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What has Brexit meant for the NHS? (February 2023)
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In this commentary, published by UK in a Changing Europe, Mark Dayan assesses the impact of Brexit on the health service, looking at the effect on funding, the workforce and medicine supplies. -
Content ArticleThis animation explains systems thinking and the principles of human factors in simple terms. Aimed at healthcare managers and clinicians involved in local level incident investigation, the film uses an example scenario–the incorrect prescription of medications–to introduce the concept of systems thinking and how to use it in healthcare safety investigations.
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Content ArticleIn a series of blogs for the hub, Emma Plunkett and Nancy Redfern, part of the Joint Working Group on Fatigue, will highlight the impact staff fatigue has not only on the staff themselves but also on patient safety, and why healthcare needs a robust fatigue risk management system like other safety-critical industries. In their first blog, Emma and Nancy share how they became involved in investigating night shift fatigue after the death of a colleague driving home tired. They discuss how they set up the Joint Working Group on Fatigue and the aims of the #FightFatigue campaign.
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Content ArticleThis editorial, published in BMJ Quality & Safety, the author notes that the involvement of medical trainees in patient care means it is vital that the impact of changes to medical training programmes on patient outcomes are assessed with well-designed studies. They take a look at the impact of medical education on patient safety specifically.
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Content ArticleFatigue is a workplace hazard that affects the health and safety of patients, health care providers and the community. This blog from health tech company Cerner looks at the importance of managing fatigue in healthcare staff. The author suggests a three-step approach to lessen fatigue: Shift the culture of safety to include recognising and dealing with fatigue. Operationalise fatigue reduction measures within the organisation. Promote fatigue self-management through preventative strategies.
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Content ArticleFatigue has increasingly been viewed by society as a safety hazard. This has lead to increased regulation of fatigue by governments. The most common control process has been compliance with prescriptive hours of service (HOS) rule sets. Despite the frequent use of prescriptive rule sets, there is an emerging consensus that they are an ineffective hazard control, based on poor scientific defensibility and lack of operational flexibility. In exploring potential alternatives, we propose a shift from prescriptive HOS limitations toward a broader Safety management system (SMS) approach. Rather than limiting HOS, this approach provides multiple layers of defence, whereby fatigue-related incidents are the final layer of many in an error trajectory. This review presents a conceptual basis for managing the first two levels of an error trajectory for fatigue.
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Content ArticleHours of work and other conditions of service are matters for agreement between employers and staff, but it is vital that working patterns are designed to reduce risks from fatigue as much as is practical. This resource from the Office of Rail and Road outlines why the rail industry needs to take staff fatigue seriously, and provides links to key guidance.
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Content ArticleFatigue refers to the issues that arise from excessive working time or poorly designed shift patterns. It is generally considered to be a decline in mental and/or physical performance that results from prolonged exertion, sleep loss and/or disruption of the internal clock. Fatigue results in slower reactions, reduced ability to process information, memory lapses, absent-mindedness, decreased awareness, lack of attention and underestimation of risk. It can lead to errors and accidents, ill-health and injury, and reduced productivity and is often a root cause of major accidents. This guidance from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) outlines key information about fatigue and signposts to further resources about managing fatigue at work.
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Content ArticleAfter attending a Safety II workshop, Paul Stretton discusses what the future holds for the Safety II/Resilience Engineering community.
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Content ArticleThe primary purpose of this document from the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is to allow HSE professionals who provide answers to the pre-qualification questionnaires to quickly establish if their companies apply human factors / human performance as per the industry guidance. Secondly, this guidance may be used by anyone who wishes to quickly get an insight into the industry guidance, without reading dozens of reports. To access the report you will need to fill in a form from the SPE website.
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News ArticleFollowing four deaths and more than 300 incidents with steroid replacement therapy involving patients with adrenal insufficiency in the past two years, patients at risk of adrenal crisis will be issued with a steroid emergency card. All adults with primary adrenal insufficiency (AI) will be issued an NHS steroid emergency card to support early recognition and treatment of adrenal crisis, a National Patient Safety Alert has said. The cards will be issued by prescribers — including community pharmacists — from 18 August 2020. AI is an endocrine disorder, such as Addison’s disease, which can lead to adrenal crisis and death if not identified and treated. Omission of steroids in patients with AI, particularly during physiological stress such as an additional illness or surgery, can also lead to an adrenal crisis. The alert has requested that “all organisations that initiate steroid prescriptions should review their processes/policies and their digital systems/software and prompts to ensure that prescribers issue a steroid emergency card to all eligible patients” by 13 May 2021. Read full story Source: The Pharmaceutical Journal, 17 August 2020
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After coronavirus, we may not recognise changed NHS
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In many ways it is wrong to talk about the NHS restarting non-coronavirus care. A lot of it never stopped — births, for instance, cannot be delayed because of a pandemic. However, exactly what that care looks like is likely to be very different from what came before. There are more video and telephone consultations and staff treat patients from behind masks and visors. That is likely to be the case for some time, experts have told The Times. Read full story (paywalled) Source: The Times, 6 June 2020 -
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Trusts criticise ‘completely chaotic’ covid-19 supply response
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Several trust procurement leads have expressed frustration with the government’s response to covid-19, with HSJ being told of shortages of crucial personal protective equipment, unpredictable deliveries and a lack of clarity from the centre NHS Supply Chain, which procures common consumables and medical devices for trusts, has been “managing demand” for an increasing number of PPE and infection control products for since the end of February to ensure “continuity of supply”. Some products, like certain polymer aprons, are unavailable altogether because of the increased demand and disrupted supply caused by the covid-19 outbreak. One procurement lead told HSJ: “They aren’t supplying enough, they aren’t fulfilling orders. It’s completely chaotic.” Another said his trust had “just enough to manage for the time being.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 20 March 2020- Posted
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NHS Doctors bullied to the brink
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The Doctors’ Association UK has compiled stories from 602 frontline doctors which expose a startling culture of bullying and overwork in the NHS. The stories include: a pregnant doctor who fainted after being forced to stand up for 15 hours straight and being denied water. The junior doctor was subsequently shouted at in front of colleagues and patients on regaining consciousness and told it was her choice to be pregnant and that ‘no allowances would be made’. a doctor who told us that a junior doctor hung themselves in a cupboard whilst on shift and was not found for 3 days as no-one had looked for them. His junior doctor colleagues were not allowed to talk about his suicide and it was all ‘hushed up’. a doctor who was denied a change of clothes into scrubs after having a miscarriage at work despite her trousers being soaked in blood. Full press release