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Content ArticleAthough considerable progress has been made with comparing human factors in a safety critical industry to human factors in healthcare, it is clear that the variabilities found in healthcare are far more complex than industrial situations. While comparing human factors in the operating room and intensive care unit with systems from the airline, maritime and off shore industries is appropriate, Geoff Cardwell in this article discusses why a generalised approach to apply human factors in the routine activities of hospitals is needed and the nuclear industry is more appropriate for this wider context, where the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principles is used for managing radiation exposure. This approach can be compared to minimising the exposure to infection and superbugs in hospitals as well as reducing process failure where human factors are involved.
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PSNet: Systems Approach
Claire Cox posted an article in In health care
The Patient Safety Network (PSNet) discuss a case of a 65 year old who went in for one operation, but ended up having a completely different operation.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis project is led by the Department of Anaesthesia at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust, in partnership with Northumbria University Newcastle. The aim is to co-design a fatigue risk management strategy at the Trust to help teams effectively manage night shift fatigue.
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Patient safety: common misunderstandings (IHI March 2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in Improving systems of care
What patient safety beliefs get in the way of preventing harm? In this video, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Frank Federico lists some common misunderstandings, including the tendency to think of the Institute of Medicine’s six quality aims for improvement in silos.- Posted
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Hi all, I had a great meeting with @Neal Jones yesterday and in a wide ranging discussion we reflected on design and human factors. I recall some great work many years ago on the redesign of ambulances (that the NPSA contributed to) and wondered what happened to that initative and whether this had developed into designing new hospitals for patient safety. @Neal Jones recalled the DOME (designing out medical error) project http://www.domeproject.org.uk/index.html. This web site is dated 2010 and it seems to have been a three year funded project. Is this innovative approach still 'live?' Does anyone know of any work on human factors in hospital design to deliver safer care (processes, equipment, layout, technology etc)? In the UK or internationally? By googling I've found articles on specific departmental inititaives and people calling for more to be done but not much of the 'how' or any requirment to embed patient safety into new build hospital deisgn. Surely there must be soemthing?!!- Posted
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Releasing Time to care, The NHS Productive Series (NHS Improvement)
Claire Cox posted an article in Environmental
The successful NHS Productives series, from NHS Improvement, are about ‘the how not the what’ and use a learning by doing approach that builds knowledge and skills to support frontline teams to make real and lasting improvements for themselves.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn this talk, Steven Shorrock outlines seven fallacies of work-as-imagined, concerning outcomes happen, how people work, how we design and implement, and how we think. A number of examples provided by healthcare workers are given. The talk was given at the HSJ Patient Safety Congress 2019.
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Content ArticleThe Safer Nursing Care Tool has been developed by the Shelford Group to help NHS hospital staff measure patient acuity and/or dependency to inform evidence-based decision making on staffing and workforce. The tool, when allied to Nurse Sensitive Indicators (NSIs), offers nurses a reliable method against which to deliver evidence-based workforce plans to support existing services or to develop new services. The Shelford Group is an organisation comprising Chief Executives of 10 of the leading NHS multi-specialty academic healthcare organisations in England. The Chief Nurses of each of these NHS Trusts belong to a subgroup of the organisation and they meet every two months to share best-practice, benchmark and work towards improving standards in nursing.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning speaks to Ben Tipney, Managing Director of MedLed and the hub topic lead in Human Factors, about how healthcare can achieve high performance and learn from other industries, including from the sports industry.
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The Heinrich/Bird safety pyramid
Claire Cox posted an article in In health care
Herbert W. Heinrich was a pioneering occupational safety researcher, whose 1931 publication, Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach [Heinrich 1931] was based on the analysis of accident data collected by his employer, a large insurance company.- Posted
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Safer staffing - guidance from NHS Improvement
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Safe staffing levels
NHS Improvement provide general guidance and a starting point towards delivering effective safer staffing.- Posted
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WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist (December 2015)
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Of the more than 130 million births occurring each year, an estimated 303 000 result in the mother’s death, 2.6 million in stillbirth, and another 2.7 million in a newborn death within the first 28 days of birth. The majority of these deaths occur in low-resource settings and most could be prevented. The World Health Organization (WHO) has produced a safe birth checklist.