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Content ArticleBlood transfusion is considered one of the safer aspects of healthcare, however potentially avoidable patient-safety incidents led to 14 deaths in the UK in 2017. Improvement initiatives often focus on staff compliance with standard operating procedures. This fails to understand adaptations made in a complex, dynamic environment, so the aim of this study from Watt et al. is to examine the extent and nature of adaptations at all stages of the vein to vein transfusion process.
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Content ArticleIn this article in Inforisk Today, Marianne McGee looks at warnings from patient safety experts and federal authorities around cyberattacks on the public health sector. She looks at emerging trends in the way that cybercriminals target healthcare, recent work to bring down cybercriminal gangs and the impact of ransomware attacks on healthcare systems.
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EventThis Westminster Health Forum policy conference: will examine what is needed to improve diagnostic speed and outcomes. It will also be an opportunity to discuss the future outlook for medical device regulation in the wake of Brexit, with the MHRA having consulted on a more transparent and flexible approach. Further sessions look at supporting continued research and innovation, with the Government launching strategic and funding plans, including investment in modernising diagnostics as part of wider efforts to address waiting lists. Additional areas for discussion include: industry partnerships staff recruitment and retention learning from the response to COVID-19 opportunities for driving efficiencies. Keynote sessions with: Professor Sir Mark Caulfield, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London; Chief Executive Officer, Barts Life Sciences; and former Chief Scientist, Genomics England Dr Sarah Byron, Programme Director, Centre for Health Technology Evaluation, NICE Professor Louise Jones, Chair, Genomics and Reproductive Science Specialty Advisory Committee, Royal College of Pathologists; and Professor of Breast Pathology, Barts Cancer Institute Stephen Lee, Director, Diagnostics Regulation, Association of British Healthcare Industries Professor Michael Messenger, Principal Scientific Advisor for In Vitro Diagnostics, MHRA Doris-Ann Williams, Chief Executive, British In Vitro Diagnostics Association Register
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Content Article'What the HealthTech?' is a podcast from Radar Healthcare. A platform for professionals in health and social care to have open discussions on creating change, tackling challenges and making an impact on people’s lives. Each week Radar Healthcare talk to industry leaders, organisations making a difference and their team of experts to share ideas and learnings with you.
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Content ArticleIn this blog for Patient Safety Movement, Pranjal Bora, Head of Product Management at Digital Authority Partners, looks at the ways in which digital technologies improve outcomes and safety in healthcare. The blog examines areas in which digital technologies are currently being used, and looks at the potential future uses of AI and other digital technologies.
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Treatment disrupted as trust suffers major data loss
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
A major IT incident at an acute trust is disrupting treatment for eye patients after a significant data loss, it has emerged. Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust chief executive Richard Beeken revealed to his trust’s board that a data loss incident in December had “impacted on staff and patient care” after disrupting 20 systems across the organisation. Recovery of the full data set for patients receiving treatment at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre is still under way, and some have had operations postponed. Despite the incident, ophthalmologists are continuing to see the majority of patients, Mr Beeken said, telling HSJ: “[Numbers affected] are being kept to a minimum through the extraordinary efforts of the clinical team who are putting in extra hours to reassess each patient’s needs.” Scanning continues in the majority of cases and the trust is pressing on with recovery work for all historic images and patient contact details, though leaders believe the chances of 100% data recovery are “still slim”. No patient data was extracted during the incident and the information commissioner was made aware. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 10 January 2022 -
Content ArticleReports from the G7 working groups on AI governance and interoperability setting out how the G7 are implementing their commitments on digital health.
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Trust fined following patient’s death linked to ‘outdated’ IT system
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
A Norfolk hospital trust has been fined £60,000 after pleading guilty to criminal charges of exposing a 28-year-old patient who died to significant risk of avoidable harm. Queen Elizabeth Hospital King’s Lynn Foundation Trust was sentenced on Thursday 8 December at Chelmsford Magistrates’ Court, as a result of a prosecution brought by the Care Quality Commission. The dilapidated hospital’s “outdated” computer system, which is long overdue a major upgrade, was cited as a factor in the young patient’s death, which followed a mix-up over scans. Lucas Allard, who was awaiting heart surgery, had attended the hospital’s emergency department on 12 March 2019 with chest pain. He was sent home after staff determined his computerised tomography scan results meant he was fit for discharge. But two days later, a consultant discovered staff had been looking at the wrong scan, and the correct report showed significant abnormality. Mr Allard was urgently called back to the hospital but suffered a cardiac arrest shortly after arriving, and died despite attempted resuscitation. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 9 December 2022 -
Content ArticleThis study in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry assessed feedback from paediatric diabetes patients and their parents or carers regarding virtual consultations, using a solution focused approach, in a hospital setting. Patients completed an electronic survey following their virtual consultation, and of those surveyed, 86% recommended video consultations to be part of their diabetes care. Qualitative data showed reduced travel time, comfort, reduced need for parking and convenience as the major benefits to patients. The results demonstrated that clinical care was shown to be positive and addressed patients concerns, the majority of respondents (84%) reported that the appointment was about what they wanted it to be about. Using the solution focused model helped overcome the challenges faced with virtual consultations particularly with concerns surrounding safeguarding issues, confidentiality, audio/video difficulties and also helped to support the patient journey.
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Content ArticleIn this 'letter', Dr Soojin Jun, as a healthcare professional and a patient advocate, gives her three recommendations to guard "patient safety" in the digital health era. Your end-users are ultimately patients, no matter who uses your product. Healthcare is not binary, and your digital solutions shouldn’t be either. Please look ahead and consider empathy for “patients” and provide solid feedback loops for the “users.”
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EventThis Westminster Health Forum conference will examine the priorities and next steps for utilising AI-driven technologies within health and social care. Delegates will consider the opportunities for increased use, what is needed to tackle barriers to implementation, data protection, questions of ethics and bias, wider regulatory challenges, and priorities for research. It will be a timely opportunity to consider next steps for harnessing AI-based healthcare solutions to deliver streamlined and effective care following developments made during the pandemic - and in the context of the development of an AI Strategy for Health and Social Care. Overall, the agenda will bring out latest thinking on: priorities for the development of a national AI Strategy for Health and Social Care addressing the key ethical and legal issues in the development of AI-based health solutions key issues surrounding data security and sharing, priorities for ensuring patient anonymity, data confidentiality and providing transparency around data use the future for research and innovation in the development of AI-driven technologies priorities for workforce education and training around AI health solutions addressing barriers to the use of AI in healthcare, developing digital infrastructure across the health service, and improving the diversity of clinical research data. Register
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Content ArticleGomes et al. report the utilisation and impact of a novel triage-based electronic screening tool (eST) combined with clinical assessment to recognise sepsis in paediatric emergency department. An electronic sepsis screening tool was implemented in the paediatric emergency departments of two large UK secondary care hospitals between June 2018 and January 2019. Patients eligible for screening were children < 16 years of ages excluding those with minor injuries or who were brought directly to resuscitation. Utilisation of a novel triage-based eST allowed sepsis screening in over 99% of eligible patients. The screening tool showed good accuracy to recognise sepsis at triage in the ED, which was augmented further by combining it with clinician assessment. The screening tool requires further refinement through multicentre evaluation to avoid missing sepsis cases.
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The 12 days of digital patient safety
Clive Flashman posted an article in Digital health and care service provision
A couple of weeks ago, I presented some of the ideas I’ve had around digital clinical safety. This was seasonally branded, ‘The 12 days of Digital Patient Safety’. The 12 issues that were on my list comprised: AI – regulation, ethics and testing. Patient safety not built into the innovation process (co-design and co-production with patients is required). Patient safety (in use) not effectively built into the digital health compliance systems. Poor user experience (design). The safety of medical devices, e.g. remote hacking. Privacy and consent around data. Fragmentation of patient records and data. Lack of interoperability. Cybersecurity. Patient digital and health literacy. Clinician attitudes and knowledge of digital technologies. The barriers to EHR integration (and poor use of patient-generated data). There was only time on the webinar to cover points 2, 3, 6 and 10; I hope that we can have further session in 2022 where we can discuss the others. -
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We need to fix it (HindSite, 2021/22)
Sam posted an article in Digital health and care service provision
While ‘human error’ is often blamed when things go wrong, the ‘technical’ part of ‘sociotechnical systems’ often escapes the spotlight. In this article, Harold Thimbleby outlines how hidden risks with digitalisation have far-reaching consequences, and how we can start to fix them. -
Content ArticleThis white paper sets out the UK Government's 10-year vision for adult social care, and provides information on funded proposals that they will implement over the next three years. It highlights the factors that will cause an increase in demand for social care over the next decade and identifies stakeholders who the proposed changes to social care will affect. A key proposal in this white paper is the cap on how much individuals in England will contribute to their care costs from October 2023, which aims to make care costs predictable and limited.
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Content ArticleDigital technology is transforming every industry including healthcare. Digital and data have been used to redesign services, raising citizen expectations about self-service, personalisation, and convenience, and increasing workforce productivity. The pandemic has accelerated the shift to online and changed patient expectations and clinical willingness to adopt new ways of working. In addition, it facilitated new collaborations both in the centre of the NHS and wider local health and care systems. Together, these changes have enabled previously unimaginable progress in digitally enabled care pathways. The goal of this review is to build on this progress and ensure the national NHS (defined as NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI), NHSX (X) and NHS Digital (D)) can lead the transformation of the wider healthcare system, supporting integrated care systems (ICSs) to deliver better citizen health.
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Content ArticleThis World Health Organization (WHO) policy brief takes stock of how digital health tools have been used during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to review what has happened, assess how uptake and use of these tools has been facilitated, identify issues that are emerging, and learn lessons for the longer term to support the sustained use of digital health tools.
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Content ArticleThis study in The British Journal of General Practice aimed to quantify the time GPs spend on different activities during clinical sessions, to identify the number of operational failures they encounter and to define the nature of operational failures and their impact for GPs.
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Priorities for NICE in health & social care
Patient Safety Learning posted an event in Community Calendar
untilThis Westminister Forum conference will discuss the priorities for NICE within health and social care following the publication of the NICE Strategy 2021 to 2026: Dynamic, Collaborative, Excellent earlier this year, which sets out NICE’s vision and priorities for transformation over the next five years, including: rapid and responsive evaluation of technology, and increasing uptake and access to new treatments flexible and up-to-date guideline recommendations which integrate the latest evidence and innovative practices improving the effective uptake of guidance through collaboration and monitoring providing scientific leadership through driving research and data use to address gaps in the evidence base. It will be an opportunity to discuss the role of NICE in a changing health and social care landscape following the pandemic, as well as the opportunities presented for guidance to keep pace with the development of integrated care, innovative treatments, and data-driven research and technology. Sessions in the agenda include: key priorities for delivering the future vision and transformation of NICE going forward developing evidence-based guidelines in a changing health and social care landscape: flexibility, patient engagement, collaboration, and effective implementation lessons learned from the use of rapid guidelines in response to COVID-19 the opportunities presented for improving the utilisation of data and the future for data-driven evidence and guidelines taking forward new approaches to evaluating health technology - speed, cost-effectiveness, and engagement priorities for industry engagement and improving value and access to innovative health technology supporting the development and adoption of innovative medicines the role of managed access and funding in delivering improved patient access to innovation opportunities for using research and data analytics to meet gaps in the evidence base. Register -
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Hannah Hylton is a highly specialised respiratory physiotherapist at Barts Health NHS Trust. During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was part of the team that designed the Trust’s after-Covid services, including the Living With Covid Recovery app. In this interview, Hannah explains how the app works and how it is being used by Trusts around the UK to support over 1,500 patients living with Long Covid. -
Content ArticleThis blog on the tech website Mashable outlines the key points of a recent international consensus statement on open-source automated insulin delivery. It discusses the need for a consensus statement, the impact of this technology on the lives of people with diabetes and the importance of the statement in paving the way for further user-driven technologies and innovations in healthcare.
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Content ArticleUptake of open-source automated insulin delivery systems is increasing globally and there is growing real-world, user-driven evidence around the safety and effectiveness of these systems. This article in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology seeks to provide, from an international perspective: a review of the current evidence a description of the technologies discussion of the ethical and legal considerations a healthcare consensus supporting the implementation of open-source systems in clinical settings, with detailed clinical guidance. The authors make recommendations for key stakeholders involved in diabetes technologies, including developers, regulators, and industry.
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For World Diabetes Day, Lotty Tizzard, Patient Safety Learning's Content and Engagement Manager, takes a look at the benefits of closed-loop insulin delivery, how patients have literally led on its development, and patient safety issues associated with artificial pancreas systems. -
Content ArticleThe Patient Experience Platform (PEP) is a listening tool which offers a new approach to collecting and analysing the views of patients on health services. The platform delivers comprehensive real-time reporting of what patients think about their care and provides actionable insights to inform operational decisions. This second annual report explains how PEP data is collected and analysed and explores some key findings on trends and variations in patient experiences across hospitals in England.
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Content ArticleChristopher Collinson was admitted to the Medical Assessment Unit at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital with suspected deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. He was admitted at 1.28pm on 14 June 2021, but was not seen by a Doctor until 9.33pm. He was later prescribed a prophylactic dose of Enoxaparin, rather than the therapeutic dose which the doctor had intended to prescribe. He collapsed at 11.00pm suffering a cardiac arrest and could not be revived. He died at 2.14am on 15 June 2021.
