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Content ArticleThis article in the journal Contemporary Nurse discusses how appreciative inquiry (AI) may be used to promote workforce engagement and organisational learning and facilitate positive organisational change in a health care context.
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Content Article100 days into her role as interim Chief Inspector at the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), Dr Rosie Pennyworth reflects on her focus so far. She talks about spending time developing close relationships with HSIB staff to ensure she is able to effectively guide them through the transformation process as the organisation becomes the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB). She also talks about keeping patients and families at the centre of future strategy and developing an international network with counterpart organisations in the US, Sweden and Norway.
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EventuntilJoin ImproveWell and representatives from Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust and Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, to discover: how the current landscape in maternity services looks as regards quality, safety, and workforce sentiment; how engaging the workforce to improve is the key to positive transformation; and lessons and best practice in engaging the workforce in improvement within the maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust and Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust. Register for this event
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EventuntilHarnessing the contribution of support staff, and the wider population, is crucial in both determining the success of service transformations and shaping health outcomes. The fourth seminar in the Health Education England series will discuss the importance of whole system design and transformation and maximising everyone’s contribution to promoting and protecting the public’s health, as well as the significance of encouraging new and emergent roles and routes into health and care systems. Register
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EventuntilBreaking down the barriers between organisations is key to the successful development of integrated care systems (ICSs), and the underpinning digital transformation that their introduction demands. Digital transformation can become the foundation of partnership working across health, social care, local government, and wider partners – including those in the voluntary, community and social enterprise, and private sectors – as place-based approaches to delivering care develop. This session from The King's Fund will explore what is being done to create collaborative digital strategies at ICS level that enable practical and flexible ways of working between partners. It will discuss how best to harness and use the data the system already holds, and how partnerships can move beyond barriers around data sharing, co-ordination and workforce capacity. Register
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Can the NHS learn from healthcare systems overseas?
Steve Turner posted a topic in Organisational
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Is it time to change the way England's healthcare system is funded? Is the English system in need of radical structural change at the top? I've been prompted to think about this by the article about the German public health system on the BBC website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62986347.amp There are no quick fixes, however we all need to look at this closely. I believe that really 'modernising' / 'transforming' our health & #socialcare systems could 'save the #NHS'. Both for #patients through improved safety, efficiency & accountability, and by making the #NHS an attractive place to work again, providing the NHS Constitution for England is at the heart of changes and is kept up to date. In my experience, having worked in healthcare for the private sector and the NHS, and lived and worked in other countries, we need to open our eyes. At present it could be argued that we have the worst of both worlds in England. A partially privatised health system and a fully privatised social care system. All strung together by poor commissioning and artificial and toxic barriers, such as the need for continuing care assessments. In my view a change, for example to a German-style system, could improve patient safety through empowering the great managers and leaders we have in the NHS. These key people are held back by the current hierarchical crony-ridden system, and we are at risk of losing them. In England we have a system which all too often punishes those who speak out for patients and hides failings behind a web of denial, obfuscation and secrecy, and in doing this fails to learn. Vast swathes of unnecessary bureaucracy and duplication could be eliminated, gaps more easily identified, and greater focus given to deeply involving patients in the delivery of their own care. This is a contentious subject as people have such reverence for the NHS. I respect the values of the NHS and want to keep them; to do this effectively we need much more open discussion on how it is organised and funded. What are people's views? -
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In this blog, Patient Safety Learning marks World Patient Safety Day 2022. It sets out the scale of avoidable harm in health and social care, the need for a transformation in our approach to patient safety and considers the theme of this year’s World Patient Safety Day, medication safety. -
Content ArticleAnnual NHS Staff Survey results show an average decline in those feeling optimistic about their career within the NHS. One area of concern, in particular, was the amount of NHS workers who felt they were not adequately recognised and rewarded. This poses a threat to the healthcare provider’s People Promise. As part of the NHS’ People Promise, one of the key values include: ‘we are recognised and rewarded. At a time when much of the NHS is suffering from staff shortages, it is vital to find solutions to boost employee morale. Following this report from Each Person, the NHS has highlighted two key areas that need to be addressed to combat staff dissatisfaction: continuing their advocacy for increased investment and support to raise staff numbers; and relieving points of pressure to foster a positive working culture across the organisation. Consequently, NHS trusts have taken positive steps to ensure that their employees feel more appreciated for their hard work through rewards and recognition.
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EventuntilIn the face of new challenges, developing requirements, and restructuring of local systems within the NHS it’s vital to bring together the Digital Health community again. HETT 2022 will explore the systems and infrastructure that underpin and enable a data-driven NHS, supporting the ecosystem to deliver patient outcomes through the meaningful implementation of technology. Two days of free CPD accredited educational sessions, interactive activities, and networking opportunities with 150+ innovative suppliers and 200+ expert speakers. Further information and registration
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Content ArticleM R Rajagopal (known to all as Raj) is an internationally renowned Indian anaesthetist and palliative care physician who is one of the founders of a system of palliative care in Kerala that is admired the world over. The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death said that societies everywhere could learn from the Kerala innovation, which is a system led by the community with health professionals as supporters rather than leaders. Raj has now published his readable, insightful—and at times funny—autobiography, Walk with the Weary: Lessons in humanity in healthcare, which is both a severe critique of modern healthcare and a prescription for transformation and highlighted by Richard Smith in this BMJ article.
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The Patient Revolution: How we revolt guide (June 2022)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Culture
This guide from The Patient Revolution aims to help healthcare activists contribute to an international movement for care. It summarises the foundations of The Patient Revolution's collective work towards the goal of careful and kind care for all. Underpinning these foundations is the idea that industrialised healthcare undermines compassionate, individualised care and costs more, both in terms of patient safety and financial cost. The guide provides tools and principles to help activists transform the way care is offered and promote genuine patient-healthcare collaboration. -
Content ArticleOver the few years, the Royal Air Force (RAF) has been going through a cultural evolution. In this episode of the Human Factors podcast, Ian James and Avril Webb give an insight into how the implementation of Human Factors and attitudes to safety have evolved in the RAF, and the positive impact this has had on the organisation.
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Content ArticleIn this McKinsey & Co blog, the authors examine how organisations can achieve cohesion among decentralised business units and transform their culture. Drawing on McKinsey's experience supporting organisations through change, they look at how setting a common cultural goal and minimum standards for how each business unit will achieve this goal, can result in lasting performance improvements. They examine the following facets of cultural change: How you’re changing: Organizational oversight What you’re changing: Mindsets and behaviours Who is responsible at the business unit level?
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Content ArticleThis report by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change looks at how the NHS needs to adapt to meet the demands of the current population. It asks the questions, should we and could we go much further in fundamentally changing the design of how the NHS is run, highlighting two key societal changes that make change necessary: increases in our knowledge of how to stay healthy, and huge technological advances such as artificial intelligence.
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Content ArticleThe What Good Looks Like (WGLL) Hub has been developed to support NHS staff and their organisations in achieving What Good Looks Like. It brings together a wealth of digital health information and features good practice examples of technology-enabled healthcare, standards, guides and policies, useful tools and templates and networking information. It will help you with your digital transformation work.
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Leak reveals priorities of NHS long-term plan refresh
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
A drive to ‘transform’ access to urgent, emergency and planned care will be added to the goals of the NHS long-term plan, a document leaked to HSJ has revealed The long-term plan for the NHS was originally published in January 2019. Last September, NHS England said it was reviewing the commitments made within the plan, with senior officials warning that many of them could not be met after the damage of the pandemic. HSJ has seen a document prepared for the most recent meeting of the NHS Assembly which sets out NHSE’s approach to the refresh. Strategic developments expected include better joined-up community based and preventive care, transform access to urgent, emergency and planned care, improve care quality and operations, and tackle health inequalities, improve population health and develop a sustainable health service through greater collaboration. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 24 June 2022 -
Content ArticleThis book is a resource for the coaches who provide health IT-related assistance for primary care practices to support their QI and practice transformation efforts. The audience for this handbook includes both the health IT-focused coaches who support QI work as well as the practice facilitators/coaches who have the necessary background, interest, and skills to provide clinical health IT support. Although the handbook is primarily intended for external coaches working with primary care practices, the content could also be useful for practice-based staff responsible for addressing health IT needs related to QI. The handbook assumes readers already have a basic level of comfort with EHR use and with extracting and using electronic data for QI.
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Content ArticlePeople taking ownership of their health journey is hardly news. Long gone are the days when patients were passive players in their health experience. Today, technology engages, motivates, and empowers people to take control. Engaged patients are more likely to listen to preventive guidance, ask questions, and seek further information. The benefits for these patients—and for healthcare systems—are immense: improved health outcomes, reduced costs, and better care experiences for both patients and clinicians. But what role have such engaged patients played in transforming healthcare? And why is this important for the future? Kristin Molina, business leader for Philips Enterprise Care Collaboration, discusses this in an article for Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare (PSQH).
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Content ArticleHow can healthcare organisations work towards becoming true learning organisations in a reliable safety system? At the Health Plus Care conference on the 18 May 2022, Patient Safety Learning's Chief Executive Helen Hughes and Dr Sanjiv Sharma, Medical Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), discussed the activity being undertaken at Great Ormond Street, one the world’s leading children’s hospitals, to transform their approach to patient safety, in collaboration with Patient Safety Learning. See attached their presentation slides.
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Yakob Seman Ahmed, former Director General for Medical services in Ethiopia and the chair of national patient safety task force, and a recent Humphrey fellow, Public Health Policy, at the Virginia Commonwealth University, reflects on Patient Safety Learning's recent report 'Mind the implementation gap: The persistence of avoidable harm in the NHS' and the similar challenges Ethiopia faces in implementing its own standards and policies.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis study in the Journal of Health Organization and Management aimed to explore factors shaping the implementation of five new care model (NCM) initiatives in the North East of England. The study findings demonstrate that all five pilot sites experienced, and were subject to, unrealistic pressure placed upon them to deliver outcomes.
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In this report, Patient Safety Learning highlights a patient safety implementation gap in the UK that results in the continuation of avoidable harm. It focuses on six specific policy areas where the implementation gap acts as barrier to patient safety improvement and calls for system-wide action in healthcare to transform our approach to learning and safety improvement. It also details six specific recommendations relating to policy areas identified in the report. This article contains a summary of the report, which can be read in full here.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis statement from Hugh Alderwick, Director of Policy, outlines the Health Foundation's response to the House of Commons votes on the Health and Care Bill on 30 March 2022. He highlights the potential for the policies voted through to increase health inequalities, and to stall attempts to improve health and care workforce planning.
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How NHSE’s new transformation directorate will operate
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Six directors will lead the different units of NHS England’s new transformation directorate created by merging NHS Digital and NHSX into the organisation. Documents obtained by HSJ show how the transformation directorate’s senior team will be structured in the interim period until NHSD and NHSX are fully merged with NHSE. The new directorate is led by Tim Ferris, who was appointed last year as NHSE sought to speed up the digital transformation of NHS services. The directorate has outlined 10 draft priorities for the next few years, including ambitious proposals to install electronic patient records at every NHS trust, make electronic clinical decision support systems “the norm” for clinicians, and a huge expansion of virtual wards. The remaining seven priorities are: Expanding the functions and uptake of the NHS App; Increase diagnostics capacity; Data architecture and infrastructure for population health, planning and research; Population health and personalised prevention; Exploiting the NHS’s purchasing power; NHS as a platform for rapid cycle research and innovation; and Redesign pathways using digital tools. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 8 February 2022 -
Content ArticleThe resilience of health systems and cooperation between Member States have become particularly important during the COVID-19 pandemic. On the occasion of the French Presidency of the European Union (FPEU) 2022, the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the General Directorate for HealthCare Services of the French Ministry of Health have worked together to produce this special issue of Eurohealth to better understand how health systems have responded to the health crisis and to draw lessons for improving resilience of health systems. (Available in both English and French.)
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