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Content ArticleThe hospital environment in general and single room accommodation in particular are potentially important factors influencing the quality of the care provided and patient outcomes. Two areas that have received much attention for the effect of single rooms on healthcare quality are infection rates and adverse events. New hospital design includes more single room accommodation but there is scant and ambiguous evidence relating to the impact on patient safety and staff and patient experiences. This study from Maben et al. found that both staff and patients perceived advantages and disadvantages in having all single room accommodation in hospitals, but more patients expressed a clear preference for single rooms. Single rooms are associated with higher costs but the difference is marginal over time.
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How a 'Red Stripe' can improve patient safety
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
In the heat of the moment it may be difficult to locate the buzzer in an emergency. The PatientSafe Network showcase the implementation of a solution to the problem. -
Community PostWhen you enter a hospital, be it as a patient or a member of staff, an interesting thing happens. The glass doors close behind you and you are irretrievably in a different existential space. Outside, beyond that threshold is the material world. But inside you are a new Jonah having been swallowed by a mammoth whale I’m interested in exploring that existential space in the interests of quantifying the healing environment.
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Content ArticleThe Model Hospital is a digital information service designed to help NHS providers improve their productivity and efficiency. It is an easy to navigate, free tool that can be used by anyone in the NHS, from board to ward.
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Content ArticleThis action plan from the Ipswich & East Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group and West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group follows on from an infection control norovirus outbreak.
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Content ArticleThis is the first of a series of blogs on improvement of systems by Dr Rhidian Bramley. This introductory post looks at the drivers and some of the core concepts around designing clinical workflow in an electronic healthcare record (EHR) system. Dr Rhidian Bramley is a consultant radiologist and associate medical director at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust.
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Community PostHi 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?!!
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Content ArticleThe Clinical Human Factors Group (CHFG) had a fantastic one-day conference looking at how design and procurement in medical devices and systems can proactively improve patient safety. Here are the presentations, slides and interviews.
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Content ArticleThis report, by Anna Starling for The Health Foundation, identifies additional implications of the new care models programme for local health and social care leaders embarking on cross-organisational change. The new care models programme is a large-scale experiment by the NHS’s national bodies to develop ‘major new care models’ that can be replicated across England. Introduced by the NHS’s Five year forward view in 2014 and launched in 2015, it aims to break down the traditional barriers between health and care organisations to establish more personalised and coordinated health services for patients. The programme aims to reconcile ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ approaches to change management. To do this, 50 local vanguard sites were selected to develop new care models, supported by a national programme led by NHS England over 3 years.
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Content ArticleDan Jenkins, Head of Research Human Factors and Usability at DCA Design International, presents at the Clinical Human Factors Group Conference about using Human Factors to design better medical devices.
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Using design for patient safety - NHS England
Claire Cox posted an article in Processes
This presentation, set out by NHS England, includes principles to aid the design of new services and areas within any healthcare setting across any sector. -
Content ArticleHealth Building Notes give best practice guidance on the design and planning of new healthcare buildings and on the adaptation/ extension of existing facilities. They provide information to support the briefing and design processes for individual projects in the NHS building programme.
