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  1. Content Article
    Behind the scenes at one of the UK’s biggest hospitals as it transitions from old to new.  The Royal Liverpool University Hospital moves thousands of patients and staff to a new building. This programme documents their journey, the challenges faced and human factors involved.
  2. Content Article
    Operating theatre fires remain an uncommon but real safety risk for patients undergoing nearly all types of procedures, and despite ongoing safety initiatives, occur more commonly than wrong-site surgeries. One of the most compelling cases for safety improvement in the surgical setting is within this area. Combining the simple steps of operating theatre team education; improving lines of communication between surgeons, anaesthetists, and operating theatre nurses or practitioners; and the deliberate separation of the elements of the fire triangle can almost completely eliminate the incidence of surgical fires. In this brief review, Cowles Jr and Culp Jr hope that readers will be able to reduce the risk of surgical fires effectively by the application of the safety principles described.
  3. Content Article
    The objective of this review from Alani et al. is to draw attention to the risk factors, causes and prevention of surgical fires in facial plastic and reconstructive surgery performed under local anaesthesia and sedation using a review of the literature.
  4. Content Article
    A surgical fire is potentially devastating for a patient. Fire has been recognised as a potential complication of surgery for many years. Surgical fires continue to happen with alarming frequency. Yardley and Donaldson present a review of the literature and an examination of possible solutions to this problem.
  5. Content Article
    A lower recruitment and high turnover rate of registered nurses have resulted in a global shortage of nurses. In the UK, prior to the COVID-19 epidemic, nurses’ intention to leave rates were between 30 and 50% suggesting a high level of job dissatisfaction. In this study, published in BMC Nursing, Senek et al. analysed data from a cross-sectional mixed-methods survey developed by the Royal College of Nursing and administered to the nursing workforce across all four UK nations, to explore the levels of dissatisfaction and demoralisation – one of the predictors of nurses’ intention to leave.
  6. Content Article
    RIDDOR puts duties on employers, the self-employed and people in control of work premises (the Responsible Person) to report certain serious workplace accidents, occupational diseases and specified dangerous occurrences (near misses). There is no requirement under RIDDOR (The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013) to report incidents of disease or deaths of members of the public, patients, care home residents or service users from COVID-19. The reporting requirements relating to cases of, or deaths from, COVID-19 under RIDDOR apply only to occupational exposure, that is, as a result of a person’s work.
  7. Content Article
    Organisations expect to see consistency in the decisions of their employees, but humans are unreliable. Judgments can vary a great deal from one individual to the next, even when people are in the same role and supposedly following the same guidelines. And irrelevant factors, such as mood and the weather, can change one person’s decisions from occasion to occasion. This chance variability of decisions is called noise, and it is surprisingly costly to companies, which are usually completely unaware of it.
  8. Content Article
    The purpose of this Global Framework for National Occupational Health Programmes for Health Workers, as directed by the WHO Global Plan of Action (GPA) on Workers’ Health (2008–17) and consistent with the ILO Promotional Framework for Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 2006 (No. 187), is to strengthen health systems and the design of healthcare settings with the goal of improving health worker health and safety, patient safety and quality of patient care, and ultimately support a healthy and sustainable community with links to Greening Health Sector and Green Jobs initiatives.
  9. Content Article
    In this BMJ Opinion article, Helen McKeown talks asks why the menopause is still a taboo topic when it comes to the well being of healthcare colleagues and argues more could be done to help staff.
  10. Content Article
    The COVID-19 pandemic has changed most lives internationally. Households have shifted, balancing financial concerns and anxieties about the health of family and friends with the trials and responsibilities of childcare. During this pandemic it became clear that while many were struggling with the same issues, a series of shared stories could help the wellbeing of frontline NHS staff who might feel isolated and alone. The following voices are not unique to Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, anaesthesia or healthcare in the UK, but they were selected from the department to represent some of many healthcare workers who have taken on new professional roles as well as radically different ways of working and living.
  11. Content Article
    In 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.
  12. Content Article
    Army, Navy and Air Force medical personnel care for Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen and all who come in harm's way – on and off the battlefield. This video, in less than 4.5 minutes, provides a glimpse of the unique mission and benefits of military medicine.
  13. Content Article
    Following a reported death, the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) commissioned the Health and Safety Executive to undertake fire hazard testing with white soft paraffin on a variety of bandages, dressings and clothing. The results showed the ability to reproduce the fire hazard in a controlled environment. This risk was not previously well recognised. 
  14. Content Article
    Increased concern for patient safety has put the issue at the top of the agenda of practitioners, hospitals, and even governments. The risks to patients are many and diverse, and the complexity of the healthcare system that delivers them is huge. Yet the discourse is often oversimplified and underdeveloped. Written from a scientific, human factors perspective, Patient Safety: A Human Factors Approach delineates a method that can enlighten and clarify this discourse as well as put us on a better path to correcting the issues.
  15. Content Article
    Every clinical laboratory devotes considerable resources to Quality Control (QC). Recently, the advent of concepts such as Analytical Goals, Biological Variation, Six Sigma and Risk Management have generated a renewed interest in the way to perform QC. The objective of this book is to propose a roadmap for the application of an integrated QC protocol that ensures the safety of patient results in the everyday lab routine.
  16. Content Article
    Child deterioration: human factors is a presentation by Peter-Marc Fortune, Consultant Paediatric Intensivist, Associate Clinical Head, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.
  17. Content Article
    Imperial College Hospital NHS Trust have launched their new falls safety improvement video to highlight the importance of safe mobility in hospital. Watch the video and join the conversation on Twitter. 
  18. Content Article
    The ‘c’ word, 'cost' is often used to defend the status quo in patent safety. This article, published by PatientSafe Network, highlights the importance of assessing the financial loss in not introducing the safety intervention. It includes examples on how to overcome barriers like 'we don't have the money for that' when it comes to delivering safer care.  After all, the price of safer care is priceless
  19. Content Article
    In this blog published in the New York Times, Theresa Brown explains why American healthcare has become one giant workaround.  "The nurses were hiding drugs above a ceiling tile in the hospital — not because they were secreting away narcotics, but because the hospital pharmacy was slow, and they didn’t want patients to have to wait." These 'work arounds ' pose a significant patient safety risk. What work around problems do you have in your department? Theresa Brown is a clinical faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing.
  20. Content Article
    In this article in The Guardian, a junior doctor tells us how a small act of kindness from her patient kept her going.
  21. Content Article
    Frontline staff are being told to work harder, discharge more patients, be quicker, be more efficient, but are also expected to innovate and give safer care. Where can we find the time to innovate? The time to discuss and implement new ideas? One nurse gives her thoughts in this insightful blog.
  22. Content Article
    Physicians, particularly trainees and those in surgical subspecialties, are at risk for burnout. Mistreatment (i.e., discrimination, verbal or physical abuse, and sexual harassment) may contribute to burnout and suicidal thoughts. In a study published in NEJM, Hu et al. carried out a cross-sectional national survey of general surgery residents administered with the 2018 American Board of Surgery In-Training Examination assessed mistreatment, burnout (evaluated with the use of the modified Maslach Burnout Inventory), and suicidal thoughts during the past year. They found mistreatment occurs frequently among general surgery residents, especially women, and is associated with burnout and suicidal thoughts.
  23. Content Article
    Clinician burnout has been well-documented and is at record highs. The same issues that drive burnout also diminish joy in work for the healthcare workforce. Healthcare leaders need to understand what factors are diminishing joy in work, nurture their workforce, and address the issues that drive burnout and sap joy in work. The most joyful, productive, engaged staff feel both physically and psychologically safe, appreciate the meaning and purpose of their work, have some choice and control over their time, experience camaraderie with others at work, and perceive their work life to be fair and equitable. There are proven methods for creating a positive work environment that creates these conditions and ensures the commitment to deliver high-quality care to patients, even in stressful times.
  24. Content Article
    Patient safety depends on doctors’ well-being. Medicine is a tough job, but it's made it far harder than it should be by neglecting the simple basics in caring for doctors’ well-being. The well-being of doctors is vital because there is abundant evidence that workplace stress in healthcare organisations affects quality of care for patients as well as doctors’ own health. In 2018 the General Medical Council asked Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia to carry out a UK-wide review into the factors which impact on the mental health and well-being of medical students and doctors. The detailed practical proposals in this report provide a road map to health service leaders faced with the challenge of developing healthy and sustainable workforces.
  25. Content Article
    Athough 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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