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  1. News Article
    Health Education England (HEE) has announced that its new £10 million training programme, intended to ‘boost’ the critical care workforce, will be rolled out this autumn. According to HEE, the funds it secured earlier this year will provide nurses and Allied Health Professionals with a ‘nationally recognised pathway’ to further their careers in Adult Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Specialist training, delivered through a ‘blended learning package’ could help to strengthen the ICU workforce across England and will offer around 10,500 nursing staff the chance to undertake courses and ‘further their careers’. There will be a focus on flexible training – enabling participants to balance family and caring commitments, as well as taking into account those who are unable to travel, when the roll-out of the programme begins. The learning will be delivered by higher education institutions, Critical Care Skills Networks and acute trusts, and it is expected to take participants up to 12 months to receive the standardised qualification. It’s hoped that the programme could lead staff to career opportunities such as becoming a shift leader or clinical educator, or to lead on research. Read full article here Original source: Leading Healthcare News
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    Collectively, allied health professionals (AHPs) are the third largest clinical workforce in the NHS: there are 185,000 AHPs working in 14 professions across the spectrum of health and care, education, academia, research, the criminal justice system and the voluntary and private sectors. This NHS England strategy is for the whole AHP community, including support workers, assistant practitioners, registered professionals, pre-registration apprentices and students. It aims to reflect how AHPs work in multidisciplinary teams, so that the AHP community working in a variety of health and care sectors can use it to continually improve and redesign services. The strategy outlines four foundations on which the AHP community should base practice: AHPs champion diverse and inclusive leadership AHPs in the right place, at the right time, with the right skills AHPs research, innovate and evaluate AHPs can further harness digital technology and innovate with data It also describes five areas of focus for the AHP community: People first Optimising care Social justice: addressing health and care inequalities Environmental sustainability Strengthening and promoting the AHP community
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    In her latest blog, Sally Howard talks about the importance now more than ever of listening to and looking after each other. Making your voice heard. Listening to and appreciating those around you. Looking after yourself. Anyone who has the pleasure of virtual meetings in the current climate will hear the phrase "I think you’re on mute" at least two or three times a week. And this may not be the only place where people feel they are ‘on mute’. The dangers we know: voices unheard, frustrations hidden, staff feeling overwhelmed, undervalued. So if this is you, here’s three simple tips that may help: Make time to talk things through 1:1 Create a safe space to talk things through with a trusted colleague, maybe your boss or a colleague, a good friend or a trained coach. The NHS Leadership Academy offers access to trained coaches: https://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/resources/coaching-register/. Make time for a 5–10 minute daily check-in with people around you Less a luxury more a necessity, especially now. A lot of teams have daily huddles in place. It’s a time to listen, a time to ask the right questions and have your say. What you think, what you see; your great ideas matter. Appreciate those around you Nancy Kline recommends a 5 to 1 ratio of praise to criticism. It really does work. And finally be kind to yourself Years ago a brilliant colleague recommended her three treats approach: A daily treat Maybe a special coffee or a just take a bit of fresh air during another long shift A weekly treat Long walk, lovely meal, whatever gets you in a happy place, A monthly treat Very long walk (only joking) – you’ll think of something. "You can buy your employees' time and muscle... but their hearts and minds come free.” Stephen Covey
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    Sam Goodhand is a Anaesthetic Registrar who I had the great pleasure in working with in Brighton University Hospitals NHS Trust. He produced these action/prompt cards for health professionals who attend and take part in RSI's. These are great to attach to your ID badge. This ensures you always have one at hand in those tricky situations.
  5. Content Article
    "It’s time to halt, take a break, and redraw the relationship between patient care and self-care. Self-care isn’t an optional luxury. It must sit at the heart of what we do, to ensure our teams can continue to rise to the challenges of working in the 21st century NHS, to give our patients the best of both ourselves, and the organisation so many of us are proud to be a part of." This editorial by Dr Michael Farquhar, published in Anaesthesia, explains the importance of taking breaks while on shift and ensuring a good sleep between shifts and the inextricable link between sleep and patient safety.
  6. Content Article
    This short video from the Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation describes the importance of speaking up, what the process is and how speaking up will improve patient safety.
  7. Content Article
    The fair treatment of staff supports a culture of fairness, openness and learning in the NHS by making staff feel confident to speak up when things go wrong, rather than fearing blame. Supporting staff to be open about mistakes allows valuable lessons to be learnt so the same errors can be prevented from being repeated. In any organisations or teams where a blame culture is still prevalent, this guide will be a powerful tool in promoting cultural change. This guide supports a conversation between managers about whether a staff member involved in a patient safety incident requires specific individual support or intervention to work safely. it asks a series of questions that help clarify whether there truly is something specific about an individual that needs support or management versus whether the issue is wider, in which case singling out the individual is often unfair and counter-productive it helps reduce the role of unconscious bias when making decisions and will help ensure all individuals are consistently treated equally and fairly no matter what their staff group, profession or background. This has similarities with the approach being taken by a number of NHS trusts to reduce disproportionate disciplinary action against black and minority ethnic staff. This guide should not be used routinely. It should only be used when there is already suspicion that a member of staff requires some support or management to work safely, or as part of an individual practitioner performance/case investigation. Remember, you have moved into individual practitioner performance investigation when it is suggested a single individual needs support to work safely (including training, supervision, reflective practice, or disciplinary action), as opposed to where a whole cohort of staff has been identified, which would be examined as part of a safety investigation. The guide does not replace the need for patient safety investigation and should not be used as a routine or integral part of a patient safety investigation. This is because the aim of those investigations is system learning and improvement. As a result decisions on avoidability, blame, or the management of individual staff are excluded from safety investigations to limit the adverse effect this can have on opportunities for system learning and improvement. This guide reflects our best current understanding on how to apply the principles of a just culture in practice, in what is a live area of both academic and practical debate.
  8. Content Article
    NHS at 70: The Story Of Our Lives is a national programme of work supported by The National Lottery Heritage Fund and led by The University of Manchester recording stories from people who worked and were cared for by the NHS since its creation in 1948. These stories will be available on the public Digital Archive and will provide a lasting resource for audiences to discover NHS history through the voices of the people who have worked and were cared for by the NHS since 1948.
  9. Content Article
    This poster from Birmingham University Hospitals Trust is aimed at staff leaving to go home after their shift.
  10. Content Article
    This video by theatre staff from  East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust explains how the 10,000 feet initiative promotes patient safety within the operating theatre.
  11. Content Article
    This document, developed by McMaster University's School of Rehabilitation Science in Canada, provides a guide for rehabilitation practice during the COVID-19 crisis. Informed by the best available evidence, including consultation with the clinical community, this living document consolidates findings from resources for front line rehabilitation professionals.
  12. Content Article
    In this blog, Suzanne Rastrick, Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for NHS England, urges colleagues to start describing service improvements they are undertaking as part of the COVID response and considering what evidence they may need to create a case to continue the good practice. She asks 'what could we be doing now to measure impact and are we capturing data already that could be developed or utilised to demonstrate and evidence the improvements created through changes in working practices?'  Included in the blog are several resources to help Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) feed in to the process. The graphic below has been developed to support AHPs to consider the different ways they may be able to evidence the impact of new working practices. It includes a section on safety, encouraging people to reflect and report on any errors or any actions that have either resulted in harm or improved safety.
  13. Content Article
    Rehabilitation is fast becoming the new priority in dealing with the impact of this pandemic and is crucial for people recovering from COVID-19 infection.The Royal College of Occupational Therapists (RCOT) have published three guides to support people to manage post-viral fatigue and conserve their energy as they recover from COVID-19. These guides are endorsed by the Intensive Care Society.Practical advice for people who have been treated in hospitalPractical advice for people who have recovered at home’Practical advice for people during and after having COVID-19.You can download the guides via the link below.
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    This briefing highlights evidence on NHS staff, their experience at work, the pressures they face and the consequences for patients. The Point of Care Foundation believes that it’s critically important that NHS employers pay attention to staff and their experience at work because when staff feel positive and engaged with work it has a positive impact on patient experience.
  15. Content Article
    The phrase ‘assistive technology’ is often used to describe products or systems that support and assist individuals with disabilities, restricted mobility or other impairments to perform functions that might otherwise be difficult or impossible. An assistive technology product can be classed either as a medical device, which needs a CE mark and is regulated by the applicable legislation, or it can be an ‘aid for daily living’. It depends on the claims made by the manufacturer. This guidance set out by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) helps manufacturers and healthcare professionals understand the definition of assistive technology and the difference between medical devices and aids to daily living.
  16. Content Article
    This 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.  This project will involve an action research, whole team approach to effective management of fatigue in theatre and labour ward teams during the night shift. The interventions will involve educating night shift workers about the impact of fatigue on work performance, and holding focus groups to explore experiences of fatigue, and suggested ways of mitigating night shift tiredness. Ideas will then be tested out, before the strategy is finalised and implemented. During the testing, staff will use wearable activity monitors and an app, which will help demonstrate the impact of new processes. This participatory approach and the interventions should improve team working at night, with breaks and powernaps built into the work schedule. This may improve decision-making, the management of emergencies, patient and staff safety, and staff morale. This project is currently underway and will be completed in March 2020.
  17. Content Article
    This document provides guidance for nurses, midwives and nursing associates on raising concerns (which includes ‘whistleblowing’). It explains the processes you should follow when raising a concern, provides information about the legislation in this area, and tells you where you can get confidential support and advice.
  18. Content Article
    Emergency service workers describe how being on the front line affects their mental health, how they cope with the traumas they see and their advice for colleagues on how to stay mentally fit. Wellbeing staff from the first responder agencies also provide information about the help and support programmes available, including peer support.
  19. Content Article
    Blog from Mark Hellaby, an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) and currently leading a regional simulation team for Health Education England, on the effect interruptions can have. Distractions in healthcare are common. Interruptions when clinicians are completing complex tasks are familiar. This is a time when mistakes can be made. Mark led a session around distraction and cognition which allowed him over the day to start to draw together the discussions into some type of working model on how to reduce distractions. What will I learn? Awareness of distractions/interruptions Reducing avoidable interruptions Managing unavoidable distractions
  20. Content Article
    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. This toolkit includes: The Productive Leader The Productive Ward The Productive Mental Health Ward The Productive Operating Theatre Productive Community Services The Productive Community Hospital Productive Endoscopy If you work in the NHS or social care you can access online (downloadable PDF) versions of the boxsets free of charge. To get your copy, email [email protected].
  21. Content Article
    Healthcare information technology procurement is critical for healthcare organisations, as procurement decisions on medical devices and IT infrastructure will impact safety, efficiency, staff and patient experiences. In this webinar, Svetlena Taneva, from Healthcare Human Factors, University Health Network, discusses using Human Factors in hospital technology. The webinar covers: human factors pitfall of hospital procurement usability testing task efficiency examples of good and not so good design.
  22. Content Article
    This study by Noble and Sweeney, published in Workplace Health & Safety, assessed barriers to the use of assistive devices in safe patient handling and mobility that contribute to health care worker injuries. This study confirmed that the most influential factors in the decision to use assistive devices for patient transfers are time constraints and difficult patient-handling situations. These factors lead to infrequent use of assistive devices, especially mechanical devices that are difficult to retrieve or not readily available.
  23. Content Article
    Resuscitation in the pre-hospital setting is very challenging. To give the best possible care, teamwork needs to be optimal. Tom Evens, an emergency physician with Londons Air Ambulance and former coach of the Olympic UK rowing team, shows us how performance psychology will help you in providing critical care at the roadside. Presented at the ResusNL Conference 2019.
  24. Content Article
    Human factors such as fatigue and poor communication can increase the risk of safety incidents. This new book is the first to address the specific needs in this area of nurses and allied health professionals, who make up the majority of the workforce. The aim of the book is to support understanding of human factors and the role they play in quality and safety. It will help the reader identify risks, understand human error, and develop non-technical skills (social, cognitive and personal) that will support them in their practice across a range of clinical environments. With contributions by leading experts in this emerging area, many of whom remain in practice, Human Factors for Healthcare is an ideal textbook for teaching and learning in both academic and clinical settings. Covers the basic concepts right through to the most up-to-date research on human factors, including: Patient safety Human error Human factors for non-medical practitioners Human Factors in urgent, unscheduled and emergency care Non-technical skills The role of communication Teamwork Leadership Situation Awareness and Decision Making Workplace culture Stress and fatigue Resilience Reflects the requirements of the 2018 NMC Standards of Proficiency for RNs and HCPC (2023) Standards of Proficiency for AHPs. Features experts in the field from a variety of settings Embraces a broad range of speciality areas ranging from wards to A&E and ITU Contains clinical scenarios, case studies, tips and questions to help the reader reflect and engage.
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