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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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Content ArticleThis article in Studies in Health Technology and Informatics looks at how patient-peer support can be a valuable resource for patients in the context of hospital safety. Hospitalised patients often lack access to safety systems and face difficulties in having a proactive role in their safety. The authors of this study conducted semi-structured interviews with 30 patients and caregivers at a paediatric and an adult hospital. They highlight the potential benefits of incorporating patient-peer support into patient-facing technologies and argue that helping patients access such support can help them engage with and improve the quality and safety of their hospital care.
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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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Content ArticleThis is the second part of webinar three in a series designed to help the NHS respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, hosted by the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. It is hosted by Sebastian Alexander, Founding Fellow of the FCI, NHS Digital, Safety, SME Apps Programme, and features presentations on the work of the National Pathology Xchange and The National Pathology Programme.
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Content ArticleThis is the first part of webinar three in a series designed to help the NHS respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, hosted by the Faculty of Clinical Informatics. It is hosted by Sebastian Alexander, Founding Fellow of the FCI, NHS Digital, Safety, SME Apps Programme, and features presentations on the NHS Digital Apps and Wearables Programme and the Kryptowire app assessment.
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Content ArticleThis webinar from the Faculty of Clinical Informatics looks at the problems individual clinicians have with reporting and fixing issues with clinical systems across the NHS. Panel members also discuss ideas for how processes can be improved. The panel was made up of: Dr Marcus Baw, GP and Emergency Physician, Chair of the RCGP Health Informatics Group, FCI Fellow and open source developer Dr Ian Thompson, Clinical Lead (Primary Care) in Digital Health and Care at The Scottish Government Dr Lesley Kay, Consultant Rheumatologist at Newcastle Hospitals and Deputy Medical Director at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Emma Melhuish, Principal Informatics Specialist at NHS Digital Neil Watson, Director of Pharmacy, Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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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.
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Content ArticleMany prisoners still struggle to access hospital services despite their significant health care needs, and early data suggests the pandemic has worsened access further. This report by the Nuffield Trust considers new evidence relating to pre-existing health conditions before prison, the use of remote consultation, different ethnic groups' use of health services and the early impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Content ArticleThis study in BMJ Quality & Safety examines how much electronic differential diagnostic support (EDS) systems improve diagnostic accuracy, and whether EDS should be used early or late in the diagnostic process. Using a volunteer sample of medical students and doctors at six Canadian medical schools, the authors compared the rate of correct diagnosis when EDS was used early and late in the diagnostic process. The study found that EDS increased the number of diagnostic hypotheses and the likelihood of correct diagnosis, and that these effects persisted whether EDS was used early or late in the diagnostic process.
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Implementation Approaches for Closing the Loop (2019)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Diagnostic error
Delayed, missed and incorrect diagnoses are common causes of errors that result in patient harm and inappropriate care. However, some diagnostic errors may be avoided by effectively using health information technology. These resources from the Emergency Care Research Institute provide information on how to implement IT processes to close the loop on diagnostic evaluations. -
Content ArticleThis paper from The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety examines the need to integrate IT safety into healthcare organisations' safety programs. It aims to create a framework for recognising often-unappreciated technology-related safety issues and highlights both the unintended consequences of using different technologies and the potential to improve safety by incorporating technology.
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Content ArticleThis short article describes how maternity and neonatal teams across Herefordshire and Worcestershire Local Maternity and Neonatal System (LMNS) have been using video conferencing technology to drive safety improvements for mothers and babies, thanks to the launch of their new daily digital safety huddles.
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Content ArticlePatients and their families are usually the first to notice new or changing symptoms and they can play an important role in preventing diagnostic errors. This blog in BMJ Opinion describes how researchers, healthcare professionals and patients worked together to develop OurDX, an online tool designed to improve the efficiency of medical appointments and reduce diagnostic errors.
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Content ArticleZiebland et al. consider what might be learned from the unintended, apparently unanticipated, consequences of the use of digital health (including alternatives to face to face consultations, electronic medical records, use of apps and online monitoring) in primary care.
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Content ArticleIn this article in the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation Newsletter, Katsuyuki Miyasaka talks about the history of the pulse oximeter in Japan and celebrates one of it's earliest developers, Takuo Aoyagi. The author recognises the life-saving impact of pulse oximeters, but talks about the need for more education and regulation around the use of this readily available device. Miyasaka highlights that the quality of devices is variable and that when patients attempt to interpret the numbers they see, it may lead to harm.
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Content ArticleThis new book by Professor Harold Thimbleby of Swansea University tells stories of widespread problems with digital healthcare and explores how they can be overcome. "The stories and their resolutions will empower patients, clinical staff and digital developers to help transform digital healthcare to make it safer and more effective."
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Content ArticlePatient safety and digital experts have given their views on immediate digital priorities that could make a significant difference in the NHS.
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In his newsletter today (The Top 10 Dangers of Digital Health), the medical futurist, Bertalan Meskó, raises some very topical questions about the dangers of digital health. As a huge advocate of the benefits of digital health, I am aware of most of these but tend to downplay the negative aspects as I generally believe that in this domain the good outweighs the bad. However, as I was reading his article, I realised that it was written very much from the perspective of a clinician and, to some extent, a healthcare organisation too. The patient perspective was included but not from a patient safety angle. Many of the issues that he raises do have significant patient safety issues associated with them which I’d like to share in this blog. -
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Flyer for WHO medsafe app
Becky T posted an article in Medication including labelling
This flyer promotes the WHO medsafe mobile app, powered by the World Health Organization (WHO). It highlights the 5 Moments for Medication Safety as is part of the 'Medication without harm' global patient safety challenge. -
Content ArticleIn this article, Dr Yu Chye Wah discusses medical innovation in healthcare, the adoption process and how, whatever the innovation, it should not replace the human touch.
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In this blog, patient Becky Tatum reflects on two articles in Forbes magazine describing how technology is enabling patient's with multiple chronic conditions who may have been discharged from hospital, to now be provided with aftercare in their own home. Becky looks at the pros and cons of receiving hospital treatment at home from a patient's perspective.
