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The project aim was to establish a monthly multi-disciplinary analysis of all the Paediatric cases transferred from the Paediatric Emergency Department and the Paediatric ward at the Royal Free, to identify areas of clinical learning and patient safety improvement.- Posted
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How NHS staff handle acute pressure in A&Es (June 2018)
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Key points: Analysis of a national linked dataset identifying permanent care home residents aged 65 and older and their hospital found that on average during 2016/17 care home residents went to A&E 0.98 times and were admitted as an emergency 0.70 times. Emergency admissions were found to be particularly high in residential care homes compared with nursing care homes. A large number of these emergency admissions may be avoidable: 41% were for conditions that are potentially manageable, treatable or preventable outside of a hospital setting, or that could have been caused by poor care or neglect. Four evaluations of initiatives to improve health and care in care homes carried out by the Improvement Analytics Unit (IAU) in Rushcliffe, Sutton, Wakefield and Nottingham City show reductions in some measures of emergency hospital use for residents who received enhanced support. There are key learnings from these IAU evaluations, including a greater potential to reduce the need for emergency admissions and A&E attendance in residential care homes and the benefit of coproduction between health care professionals and care homes.- Posted
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In this report the CQC have seen much good and outstanding care, in particular around: responsiveness staff interactions with patients effective treatment leadership and engagement with staff and patients. However, there were a number of areas where services needed to make substantial improvements: governance clinical audit safety culture.- Posted
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Integrity in health care: a nurse's story
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HSJ Patient Safety Congress 2018 - Alison Phillips' Story
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Prevention of Future Deaths report – Hannah Royle (4 October 2021)
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In her report the Coroner notes the following matters of concern: Both calls to the 111 service were significantly non-compliant; the call handlers did not correctly complete the algorithm, they did not take into consideration Hannah’s disabilities and inability to verbalise, they failed to recognise Hannah as a complex case requiring transfer to a more senior member of the 111 service despite Hannah’s parents providing sufficient information for that to be the case. The 111 service does not have a sufficiently robust system to manage members of the public with underlying disabilities in that no accommodation is given for it in the completion of the algorithm. The skill and expertise of the ‘clinical advisor’ was wholly inadequate for her position as she had no contemporaneous or relevant experience in working in an emergency department as a nurse. She was also insufficiently robust in her assessment and understanding of Hannah’s condition when the call handler contacted her for advice. Members of the public who contact the 111 are ill-informed with a real risk they are being misled over the role and capability of the 111 service. There is little clarity or understanding by the public that it is based on following and completing an algorithm by individuals who have no need for any qualification in health care and who will only receive a short training programme after they are employed. Hannah’s parents indicated that if they knew this, they would have opted to ring 999 and the outcome would have been different. The 111 service is not a ‘diagnostic’ service yet the ‘call handlers’ have been renamed ‘health advisors’. This is misleading to the public as it implies professionalism which is untrue given their underlying skills and unsubstantiated given it is their role to complete an algorithm. The NHS pathway for ‘Abdominal Pain’ is insufficiently robust or sufficiently discriminatory to effectively deal with the myriad of potential symptoms associated with this complaint. This report was sent to NHS England and NHS Improvement, Health Education England, NHS Digital and South East Coast Ambulance Service.- Posted
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Failings by NHS 111 contributed to the death of an autistic teenager, a coroner has ruled. Hannah Royle, 16, suffered a cardiac arrest as she was driven to hospital by her parents after a 111 algorithm failed to notice she was seriously ill. A coroner said her death had exposed a risk people were being misled about the capability of the system and its staff. An NHS spokesperson said it would act on the findings and learnings "where necessary". Hannah's father Jeff Royle said he regretted dialling 111 and wished he had taken his daughter straight to hospital. "I feel so dreadful, that I have let her down and she has been let down by the NHS," he said. Read full story Source: BBC News, 20 October 2021- Posted
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Ambulance handover delays at A&E are putting patients at risk
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Between April 2020 and March 2021 there were approximately 185,000 ambulance handovers to emergency departments throughout Wales. However, less than half of them (79,500) occurred within the target time of 15 minutes. During that period there were also 32,699 incidents recorded where handover delays were in excess of 60 minutes, with almost half (16,405) involving patients over the age of 65 who are more likely to be vulnerable and at risk of unnecessary harm. Data published by the Welsh Government highlighted that in December 2020 alone, a total of 11,542 hours were lost by the ambulance service due to handover delays. This figure has been rising sharply and has now reached pre-pandemic levels once again. Inspectors said these delays have consistently led to multiple ambulances waiting outside A&E departments for excessive amounts of time, unable to respond to emergencies within their communities. "These delays have serious implications on the ability of the service to provide timely responses to patients requiring urgent and life-threatening care," the report stated. Read full story Source: Wales Online, 7 October 2021- Posted
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'I'm traumatised now': Covid bereaved call for inquiry into NHS 111
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Hundreds of people believe the helpline failed their relatives. Now they are demanding their voices be heard. Families whose relatives died from COVID-19 in the early period of the pandemic are calling for an inquiry into the NHS 111 service, arguing that many critically ill people were given inadequate advice and told to stay at home. The COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group says approximately a fifth of its 1,800 members – more than 350 people – believe the 111 service failed to recognise how seriously ill their relatives were and direct them to appropriate care. “We believe that in some cases it is likely these issues directly contributed to loved ones dying, due to causing a delay in receiving treatment, or a total lack of treatment leading to them passing away at home,” said the group’s co-founder Jo Goodman, whose father, Stuart Goodman, died on 2 April aged 72. Many families have said they had trouble even getting through to the 111 phone line, the designated first step, alongside 111 online, for people concerned they may have COVID-19. The service recorded a huge rise in calls to almost 3m in March, and official NHS figures show that 38.7% were abandoned after callers waited longer than 30 seconds for a response. Some families who did get through have said the call handlers worked through fixed scripts and asked for yes or no answers, which led to their relatives being told they were not in need of medical care. “Despite having very severe symptoms including skin discolouration, fainting, total lack of energy, inability to eat and breathlessness, as well as other family members explaining the level of distress they were in, this was not considered sufficient to be admitted to hospital or have an ambulance sent out,” Goodman said. Some families also say their relatives’ health risk factors, such as having diabetes, were not taken into account, and that not all the 111 questions were appropriate for black, Asian and minority ethnic people, including a question to check for breathlessness that asked if their lips had turned blue. Read full story Source: The Guardian, 21 September 2020 -
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Coronavirus: People told to phone ahead before going to A&E in Wales
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
People with non-life threatening illnesses will be told to call before going to Wales' biggest A&E department. Patients will be assessed remotely and given a time slot for the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff if needed. Hospital bosses feel returning to over-crowded waiting rooms would provide an "unacceptable" risk to patients due to coronavirus. The system is set to start at the end of July, but will not apply to people with serious illnesses or injuries. Details are still being discussed by Cardiff and Vale health board, but patients with less serious illnesses or injuries will be told to phone ahead, most likely on the 24-hour number used to contact the local GP out-of-hours service. They will be assessed by a doctor or a nurse and, depending on the severity of the condition, will either be given a time window to go to A&E or be directed to other services. This system was introduced in Denmark several years ago. "This is all about being safe and ensuring that emergency medicine and emergency care is safe and not about putting barriers in place to those more vulnerable people," says the department's lead-doctor Dr Katja Empson. "What we really think is that by using this system, we'll be able to focus our attention on those vulnerable groups when they do present." If successful, the system could become a long-term answer to reducing pressures on emergency medicine, she added. Read full story Source: BBC News, 14 July 2020- Posted
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The session described three things. Firstly, the importance of improving flow in hours – so when a bed is available and how quickly can we fill it. Secondly, reducing length of stay in days and, thirdly, working to safely keep more patients at home. During this event, where 70 people joined the conversation, colleagues in the Netherlands described the methodology of ‘Real Time Demand Capacity’ which they have implemented. It is Improvement Cymru's aim in 2021 to help improve the understanding of the science of flow using lean and to support implement these principles into our health and social care systems, which they think will have a significant impact on this problem. Watch the webinar and read the accompanying blog from Iain Roberts, Head of Programmes.- Posted
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Capnography: No Trace = Wrong Place
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in High risk areas
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This report features practical solutions from staff. Frontline clinicians attended workshops to help highlight the issues and identify what needs to change to keep services safe when facing surges in demand.- Posted
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