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Content ArticleFebruary 2023 - Patient feedback, Trust's Patient and Public Voice Policy, Patient Safety Partners, safe wheelchair risk assessment, referral to prolonged jaundice clinic. patient-safety-newsletter-february2023.pdf January 2023 - Dementia friendly ward, National Audit for Inpatient Falls (NAIF), investigation training, CQUINS, ePMA, Health Visitor teams. patient-safety-newsletter-janaury2023.pdf December 2022 - Supporting hydration (HCSW Innovation Idea project), deteriorating patient thematic review, investigation training, checking the right saline, Professional Nurse Advocacy, Medical Device Safety Lead. patient-safety-newsletter-december2022.pdf November 2022 - Reducing the use of fall alarms, wound photography, defining levels of assistance when moving patients, Duty of Candour. patient-safety-newsletter-november2022.pdf October 2022 - Reminiscence Interactive Therapeutic Activities RITA systems, pressure ulcers on heels, post falls checklist, importance of carers care plans, Datix and LfPSE. patient-safety-newsletter-october2022 (1).pdf September 2022 - World Patient Safety Day, ordering and fitting mattress toppers, PSIRF, Sussex interpreting services, risk assessment to prevent pressure sores. patient-safety-newsletter-september2022.pdf August 2022 - Thematic review to discuss falls on the unit, Duty of Candour requirement, reporting a pressure ulcer on Datix, UTC and learning disability health facilitation team table top, care home matrons. patient-safety-newsletter-august2022.pdf July 2022 - Collaboration with the IC24 Roving GP service, critical limb ischaemia, Genius 2 and 3 thermometers, implementing the Patient Safety Strategy, introducing Professional Nurse Advocates and Patient Safety Learning's hub. patient-safety-newsletter-july2022.pdf June 2022 - New visual fluid chart tool, bruising in children who are not independently mobile, end PJ paralysis campaign, investigation training and the importance of personalised communication. patient-safety-newsletter-june2022 (1).pdf May 2022 - Why frailty matters’ week, audit of unstageable pressure ulcers reported on Datix and risk assessing pressure ulcer equipment. patient-safety-newsletter-may2022 (1).pdf April 2022 - ICUs engaging in recent table tops to discuss the falls prevention on the ward, paraffin fire risk leaflet, improving the environment for patients with dementia and safeguarding babies. patient-safety-newsletter-april2022.pdf March 2022 - Patients leaflet on what to expect from therapy during ICU admission and the aim of rehabilitation on the unit, falls alarm, falls in toilets and bathrooms, food fortification, project to develop better tools to monitor food and fluid intake, new or changing confusion, and the importance of end of life care. patient-safety-newsletter-march2022 (1).pdf February 2022 - Homeless Health Inclusion Team, ensuring an MDT falls review, following the no response policy, End of Life Care plan and alerts on SystmOne. patient-safety-newsletter-february2022 (2).pdf January 2022 - patient-centred care, NEWS2 on paper, ensuring safe use of Smartcards, fluid balance charts and the importance of education. patient-safety-newsletter-january2022.pdf December 2021 - a PCN Quality feedback session, the impact of student projects, safe use of wheelchairs on the ICU, the delirium alert on SystmOne and the Herbert protocol patient-safety-newsletter-december2021 (1).pdf November 2021 - hover jacks, taking photos of pressure ulcers, enhanced care assessments, an update from the deteriorating patient and resuscitation lead, and ensuring effective communication. patient-safety-newsletter-november2021 (1).pdf
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Content ArticleThe workshops found five main risks to integration that appear to remain unresolved by current reforms. These are: Embedded culture and behaviours and inter-organisational power dynamics Organisational complexity, duplication, and overlapping focus Resource constraints Difficulties in defining, measuring and evaluating integration Integration fatigue. In response, this report offers some suggested approaches to mitigating those risks, which should be the focus of system leaders as partnerships take hold. These include: Ways of building integration into the day job Bringing clarity to the complexity of governance structures Better use of performance management, metrics and data Fostering culture change through greater mutual understanding Rebalancing capacity, including management capacity.
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Content ArticleKey recommendations The Delivering the future hospital report identifies six requirements that are key to improving patient care: Ensure patients and carers are at the centre of healthcare design and delivery. Provide local support for teams to improve patient care in a financially constrained and politically exposed healthcare system. Develop a collaborative learning structure to enable healthcare teams to successfully implement improvement projects. Collect and analyse data to support ongoing improvements to patient care. Develop future clinical leaders. Partnership working between the RCP and local teams is an effective model for improving aspects of patient care. The Future Hospital Programme has demonstrated that a patient-centred approach to improving services can help deliver better care for patients by more motivated, engaged staff.
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Content ArticleThe three strands of the strategic plan PatientsVoices@RCoA aims to achieve its purpose and vision by focusing on our three strategic pillars: 1. Strengthening our voice PatientsVoices@RCoA will: establish ourselves as the voice of patients for anaesthesia and perioperative care improve our knowledge of healthcare services (especially anaesthesia and perioperative care) and the challenges members face so we can contribute authoritatively and effectively to College activities improve the breadth and depth of our influence by continuing to build a diverse team and champion equality, diversity and inclusion in everything we do and say. 2. Improving how we communicate the views of patients internally and externally PatientsVoices@RCoA will: be visible and audible advocates for the College and PatientsVoices@RCoA by utilising opportunities to raise our profile and promote meaningful patient engagement engage with stakeholders in a constructive and supportive way when representing the voice of patients explore ways of extending our reach by improving our understanding of a broader range of patients’ and the public’s views and priorities. 3. Increasing our impact by developing effective ways of working PatientsVoices@RCoA will: develop and use a variety of approaches to ensure patients’ voices positively impact on the College’s activities and recommendations about patient care evolve into an influential team whose members work effectively and efficiently whilst enjoying and valuing their individual roles with the College ensure we use our resources wisely to realise our potential contribution to the College whilst minimising our impact on the environment. If you would like to find out more about the work of PatientsVoices@RCoA, please get in contact with patientsvoices@rcoa.ac.uk.
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Confraternity of Patients Kenya (COFPAK)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in International patient safety
Goals of the Confraternity of Patients Kenya (COFPAK) Track trends in patient satisfaction and contribute to a highly reliable health system in Kenya. Contribute to quality of care through sustained multi-sectorial partnerships. Promote the resolution of medical negligence incidences between the patients and the healthcare service provider(s). Contribute to policies, guidelines and legislative measures for delivery of healthcare in Kenya. Contribute to the provision of advisory and legal support services to patients and their kin. Empower patients on their rights and roles to information at the healthcare facilities. Representation of the interests of the public into Boards, Commissions and Committees on health subjects. Accelerate uptake of the promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative health services in Kenya. Contribute to the institutional and public education on emerging issues in health. See the attachment for further information about COFPAK. -
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Pandemic collaboration ‘no longer exists’ between NHS and private hospitals
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
The collaboration seen between the independent sector and the NHS during the peaks of the pandemic “doesn’t exist any more”, the boss of one of the UK’s largest private hospital companies has said. Mr Justin Ash, chief executive of Spire Healthcare and a member of the government’s recently convened elective recovery task force, whose purpose is to ”focus on how the NHS can [better] utilise independent sector to cut the backlog’.” He told the Westminster Health Forum earlier this week: “In spirit there is collaboration but in practice, it doesn’t exist anymore. There is no more commissioning by trust[s]”. Mr Ash told the conference Spire had previously had administrative teams working at 39 different NHS hospitals examining which NHS patients could be treated at one of its facilities. That number was now three, a decline which he described as “a shame”. He said: “There has to be a mindset change. We have people say ‘you have our nurses and consultants working for you’. “[But] just like patients, nurses and consultants should be able to move around the system [as] one workforce.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 16 December 2022 -
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Content ArticleThe Learn Together project engaged with, and learnt from, the experiences of everyone involved in investigations – patients, families, staff, investigators, policy makers, and other key stakeholders – to find out their needs during, and experiences of, the investigation process. Together, they have co-designed new guidance to make investigations more human and meaningful for those involved, and support better organisational learning. The project has created investigation resources to support you if you are involved in a Patient Safety Incident Investigation either as a patient, family member, healthcare staff member or investigator, including: Patient safety incident investigation information booklets for patients/families and for staff Investigator guidance Investigation record . You can download the relevant co-designed guidance or support booklets from the link below, which contain helpful information to guide and support your involvement in an investigation.
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USA: House Bill establishes Federal Agency dedicated to patient safety
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Nanette Barragán, US representative for California’s 44th Congressional District, has announced the introduction of new legislation intended to establish a National Patient Safety Board (NPSB) as a non-punitive, collaborative, independent agency to address safety in healthcare. This landmark legislation is a critical step to improve safety for patients and healthcare providers by coordinating existing efforts within a single independent agency solely focused on addressing safety in health care through data-driven solutions. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, medical error was the third leading cause of death in the United States, with conservative estimates of more than 250,000 patients dying annually from preventable medical harm and costs of more than $17 billion to the U.S. healthcare system. Recent data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicate that patient safety worsened during the pandemic. The NPSB’s solutions would focus on problems like medication errors, wrong-site surgeries, hospital-acquired infections, errors in pathology labs, and issues in transition from acute to long-term care. By leveraging interdisciplinary teams of researchers and new technology, including automated systems with AI algorithms, the NPSB’s solutions would help relieve the burden of data collection at the frontline, while also detecting precursors to harm. A coalition of leaders in health care, technology, business, academia, and other industries has united to call for the establishment of an NPSB. “We have seen many valiant efforts to reduce the problem of preventable medical error, but most of these have relied on the frontline workforce to do the work or take extraordinary precautions,” said Karen Wolk Feinstein, PhD, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative and spokesperson for the NPSB Advocacy Coalition. “The pandemic has now made things worse as weary, frustrated, and stressed nurses, doctors, and technicians leave clinical care, resulting in a cycle where harm becomes more prevalent. Many organizations have united to advance a national home for patient safety to promote substantive solutions, including those that deploy modern technologies to make safety as autonomous as possible.” Read full story Source: Business Wire, 8 December 2022 -
Content ArticleWhat is the National Patient Safety Board? Since early 2021 there has been a growing coalition of healthcare organisations and groups calling to create the National Patient Safety Board in the United States.[1] This is a proposed federal agency with the goal of preventing and reducing patient safety events in healthcare settings, modelled after the National Transportation Board and the Commercial Aviation Safety Team.[2] Legislative proposal Nanette Barragán, US representative for California’s 44th Congressional District, has announced the introduction of new legislation intended to establish a National Patient Safety Board as a non-punitive, collaborative, independent agency to address safety in healthcare.[3] Its proposed duties are: Supporting Federal departments and agencies in monitoring and anticipating patient safety events with patient safety data surveillance technologies. Providing expertise to study the context and causes of patient safety events and solutions. Formulating recommendations and solutions to prevent patient safety events from occurring. In carrying out this role, the National Patient Safety Board would be required to submit annual reports to the United States Congress and would also be able to hold hearings, take testimony, receive evidence and issue reports as appropriate. It’s proposed to comprise: Five Board members, each nominated by the President, by and with the advice and consent for the US Senate, for a term of 6 years. A Chair and Vice Chair, designated by the President from among the members of the Board to serve a term of 3 years. It is also proposed that it establishes and maintains a public-private team, known as the Health Care Safety Team, to sit underneath this to review, update and prioritise patient safety event measures and data sources related to patient and provider safety in healthcare settings, including survey data, electronic health records data, claims data, health information exchange data and reports of patient safety events.[4] National Patient Safety Board campaign You can find out more details about the campaign to support the creation of a National Patient Safety Board, and if relevant how to contact your US House member’s office in regards to this, here. References National Patient Safety Board, About, Last Accessed 9 December 2022. National Patient Safety Board, A New Solution to Address the Problem of Medical Errors, 26 July 2022. Business Wire, House Bill Establishes Federal Agency Dedicated to Patient Safety, 8 December 2022. H.R.9377 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): National Patient Safety Board Act of 2022, 1 December 2022.
