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  1. News Article
    Physician associates have attempted to illegally prescribe drugs at dozens of NHS trusts and missed life-threatening diagnoses, a dossier claims. Doctors working across the country claim patients’ lives have been put at risk by physician associates (PAs) who they say have failed to respond appropriately to medical emergencies – alleging more than 70 instances of patient harm and “near misses”. The Telegraph has seen responses from more than 600 doctors to a survey on PAs run by Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK), a campaign group. The data suggest that at over half of England’s hospital trusts, doctors are being replaced by PAs on the rota, despite associates only completing a two-year postgraduate course and having no legal right to prescribe. A spokesperson from the Department of Health said their role “is to support doctors, not replace them”. The Telegraph has interviewed more than a dozen surveyed doctors, as well as other clinicians worried about patient safety. At Dudley Group NHS Trust, one junior doctor said a PA had missed an “obvious heart attack” on an ECG, having “just signed it as if it was normal”. A clinician in primary care alleged PAs repeatedly misdiagnosed a patient’s metastatic cancer as muscle ache – despite blood results that were “tantamount” to a cancer diagnosis. They said: “The patient could have been saved eight months of pain; their life could have been prolonged.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: The Telegraph, 27 January 2024
  2. News Article
    The NHS will start recording harm caused to patients during strike action where exemptions have been rejected by the British Medical Association (BMA). BMA council chair Phillip Banfield yesterday accused NHS England of the “weaponisation” of the strike “derogation” process, saying trusts had this week submitted more of the requests, which would permit some striking doctors to return to work, and were not providing information needed to determine if they were justified. NHS England wrote back to Professor Banfield, insisting it was only trying to prioritise safety, but also saying it would revise its own approach to derogation requests. This will include: asking trusts whose requests were rejected by the BMA “to compile a picture” of the impact on services; reinforcing requirements to report patient safety incidents during strikes and after mitigation requests, so “we can evidence harm and near misses which might have been avoided”. The letter says: “We have consistently asked local medical and other clinical leaders to consider applying to the BMA for patient safety mitigations where they have significant concerns for patient safety that cannot be mitigated through other options available to them, and where they can make a strong evidential case that the return of a limited number of junior doctors would address these risks. “We have done this, in part, because we have received a number of reports over previous periods of action that some teams have been put off seeking patient safety mitigations because of their prior experience of having applications rejected, or not receiving a response in time. We are sure you would agree that this is an unsatisfactory position, and that where patient safety concerns exist, these should always be escalated appropriately.” Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 4 January 2024
  3. Content Article
    A patient safety incident investigation (PSII) is undertaken when an incident or near-miss indicates significant patient safety risks and potential for new learning. Investigations explore decisions or actions as they relate to the situation. The method is based on the premise that actions or decisions are consequences, not causes, and is guided by the principle that people are well intentioned and strive to do the best they can. The goal is to understand why an action and/or decision was deemed appropriate by those involved at the time.  This NHS England document provides an overview of patient safety incident investigation stages, tips and suggested structure for analysis.
  4. Content Article
    Inpatient falls are one of the most common patient safety incidents reported in rehabilitation wards in Australia and can result in serious adverse patient outcomes, including permanent physical disability and occasionally death. Camden Hospital in Australia implemented a multidisciplinary review meeting (Safety Huddle) following all inpatient falls and near miss falls, which developed strategies in consultation with the patient to prevent the incident from reoccurring.
  5. Content Article
    After attending a recent Patient Safety Management Network session, Emma Walker reflects on reporting on near misses.
  6. Content Article
    Just like near-miss reporting, a formal good catch program promotes reporting and learning while providing important metrics that can be tracked and trended over time. It turns a company’s safety philosophy into a clear reality. This article, published by Safety Management Group (SMG), looks at the importance of reporting 'good catches' and the positive impact this can have on safety culture and behaviour.
  7. Content Article
    A good catch in healthcare is recognised as an employee interception of a potential safety event before a patient is harmed. Both near misses and good catches present healthcare organisations with opportunities for learning to reduce harmful events, which is why reporting near misses in healthcare should be a priority for all organisations, regardless of type or size. It is important that all employees can recognise common examples of good catches in healthcare that prevent patient harm before it reaches the patient. This article, published by Performance Health Partners, includes five situations in which harm can likely occur when no action is taken. It also looks at how to establish a good catch program and how to recognise staff for reporting.
  8. Content Article
    In this article, published by Incident Prevention, authors define what a 'near miss' or 'good catch' is and look at why it is so important to report them.
  9. News Article
    A struggling trust has been warned by regulators that it could see its junior doctors removed, after concerns about clinical supervision and safety at a hospital whose A&E closes at night. NHS England inspectors who visited Cheltenham General Hospital found emergency patients – including potential surgical patients – became the responsibility of the overnight medical team when its accident and emergency closed in the evening. One night, 26 patients had been handed across, the inspectors were told, and some patients were felt to be inappropriate for medical referral. A surgical registrar could be telephoned at Gloucester Royal Hospital about surgical patients. They were told that although there were no incidents of serious harm, there had been many “near misses” and juniors felt “unsafe and unsupported in terms of consultant clinical supervision, overall clinical/nursing staffing support or logistically in managing patients in this setting or arranging transfers”. Read full story (paywalled) Source: HSJ, 7 July 2023
  10. Content Article
    In this review, Jane Carthey and colleagues discuss human factors research in cardiac surgery and other medical domains. The authors describe a systems approach to understanding human factors in cardiac surgery and summarise the lessons that have been learned about critical incident and near-miss reporting in other high technology industries that are pertinent to this field.
  11. News Article
    Hundreds of patients with metallic implants narrowly avoided death or serious injury after being wrongly referred for MRI scans, an investigation revealed yesterday. The powerful magnets used in the machines can displace and damage metallic items such as pacemakers, ear implants and aneurysm clips. Doctors should question patients and check medical records before requesting a scan because of the risk of injury. But hospitals in England recorded 315 near-misses from April 2020 to March 2022 involving patients sent for an MRI. An MRI scan at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust was ditched after staff confirmed the skin over the patient’s pacemaker had begun heating up. Another patient – at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Trust – told staff about a metal plug implanted in their nose only after the scan had begun. Many of the incidents involved forms being filled out incorrectly on behalf of elderly and disoriented patients. At East Kent Hospitals University Trust, a patient described as ‘not compos mentis’ was given the all-clear by a care home nurse and again by a clinician for MRI – only for staff to realise at the last moment that metal clips were implanted in their chest. Information about the incidents was obtained using freedom of information requests. Helen Hughes of Patient Safety Learning, said: "It is vital that near-misses are regularly reported, their causes understood, and that this learning is acted on to prevent future avoidable harm." Read full story Source: MailOnline, 15 October 2022
  12. Content Article
    Near misses include conditions with potential for harm, intercepted medical errors, and events requiring monitoring or intervention to prevent harm. Little is reported on near misses or their importance for quality and safety in the emergency department (ED). This is a secondary evaluation of data from a retrospective study of the ED Trigger Tool (EDTT) at an urban, academic ED. It was published in the Journal of Patient Safety. Authors conclude that near-miss events are relatively common (22.7% of their sample, 19.3% in the population) and are associated with an increased risk for an adverse event. Most events were patient care related (77%) involving delays due to crowding and ED boarding followed by medication administration errors. The EDTT is a high-yield approach for detecting important near misses and latent system deficiencies that impact patient safety.
  13. News Article
    A hospital has made changes after two patients were accidentally given medical air instead of oxygen. The two incidents, which took place at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH), were classed as "never events" meaning they were serious but preventable. They happened to patients in November who were being handed over to the hospital by the East of England Ambulance Service. The patients should have been given oxygen but were given medical air instead which only contains 20pc oxygen. The ambulance service said in a message to staff: "Severe harm or death can occur, if medical air is accidentally administered to patients instead of oxygen. As per NNUH's request, with immediate effect, when handing over at the NNUH, all medical equipment and oxygen should be swapped only by an emergency department doctor or registered nurse." Read full story Source: Eastern Daily Press, 2 December 2019
  14. Content Article
    The focus on error detection and its management has not produced the expected gains in patient safety, primarily because these methods are not well suited to a complex adaptive system such as healthcare. Behaviours that produce errors are variations on the same processes that produce success, so focusing on successful practices may be a more effective tactic. One approach to focusing on success is positive deviance. While positive deviance can be used to describe the behaviour of an exemplary individual, the term can also be extended to describe the behaviours of successful teams and organisations.  Originating in international public health projects, positive deviance has recently been embraced to improve quality and safety of healthcare delivered in organisations. The premise is that solutions to common problems mostly exist within clinical communities rather than externally with policy makers or managers, and that identifiable members of a community have tacit knowledge and wisdom that can be generalised. Lawton et al. explain more in this BMJ article.
  15. Content Article
    CORESS is an independent charity, which aims to promote safety in surgical practice in the NHS and the private sector. CORESS receives confidential incident reports from surgeons and theatre staff. These reports are analysed by the Advisory Board, who make comments and extract lessons to be learned. Aiming to educate, and avoid blame, CORESS calls on surgeons to recognise a near miss or adverse event, react by taking action to stop it happening and then report the incident to CORESS so that the lessons can be published. Every month CORESS highlight's one of the cases reported for you to consider the issues raised and read the experts comments.
  16. Content Article
    This independent external quality assurance review looks at the independent investigation into the care and treatment of mental health service user Mr M at Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
  17. Content Article
    The use of healthcare complaints to improve quality and safety has been limited by a lack of reliable analysis tools and uncertainty about the insights that can be obtained. The Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool, developed by Alex Gillespie and Tom W. Reader was used to analyse a benchmark national data set, conceptualise a systematic analysis, and identify the added value of complaint data.
  18. Content Article
    This competency framework has been developed and updated to support prescribers in expanding their knowledge, skills, motives and personal traits, to continually improve their performance, and work safely and effectively.
  19. Content Article
    This study, published in the Journal of Advanced Nursing, investigates the processes through which personnel understaffing and expertise understaffing jointly shape near misses among nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at survey data collected from 120 nurses in the United States of America working in hospitals during the pandemic. The authors conclude that the challenges created by understaffing of nurses have been amplified by the pandemic. They suggest that understanding the mechanisms through which safety outcomes are affected by understaffing can help healthcare organisations be better prepare for safety challenges that may arise when staffing shortages are experienced.
  20. Content Article
    Psychological safety, a shared belief that interpersonal risk taking is safe, is an important determinant of incident reporting. However, how psychological safety affects near-miss reporting is unclear, as near misses contain contrasting cues that highlight both resilience (“we avoided failure”) and vulnerability (“we nearly failed”). Near misses offer learning opportunities for addressing underlying causes of potential incidents, and it is crucial to understand what facilitates near-miss reporting. This study by Jung et al. found near misses are not processed and reported equally. The effect of psychological safety on reporting near misses becomes stronger with their increasing proximity to a negative outcome. Educating healthcare workers to properly identify near misses and fostering psychological safety may increase near-miss reporting and improve patient safety.
  21. Content Article
    Maternal near miss is a major global health issue; approximately 7 million women worldwide experience it each year. Maternal near miss can have several different health consequences and can affect the women’s quality of life, yet little is known about the size and magnitude of this association. The aim of this study from von Rosen et al. was to assess the evidence of the association between women who have experienced maternal near miss and quality of life and women who had an uncomplicated pregnancy and delivery.
  22. Community Post
    Subject: Looking for Clinical Champions (Patient Safety Managers, Risk Managers, Nurses, Frontline clinical staff) to join AI startup Hello colleagues, I am Yesh. I am the founder and CEO of Scalpel. <www.scalpel.ai> We are on a mission to make surgery safer and more efficient with ZERO preventable incidents across the globe. We are building an AI (artificially intelligent) assistant for surgical teams so that they can perform safer and more efficient operations. (I know AI is vaguely used everywhere these days, to be very specific, we use a sensor fusion approach and deploy Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing and Data Analytics in the operating room to address preventable patient safety incidents in surgery.) We have been working for multiple NHS trusts including Leeds, Birmingham and Glasgow for the past two years. For a successful adoption of our technology into the wider healthcare ecosystem, we are looking for champion clinicians who have a deeper understanding of the pitfalls in the current surgical safety protocols, innovation process in healthcare and would like to make a true difference with cutting edge technology. You will be part of a collaborative and growing team of engineers and data scientists based in our central London office. This role is an opportunity for you to collaborate in making a difference in billions of lives that lack access to safe surgery. Please contact me for further details. Thank you Yesh yesh@scalpel.ai
  23. Community Post
    Hi The new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework is due for publication this month for early adopters and as 'introductory guidance' for everyone else: https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/about-new-patient-safety-incident-response-framework/ I wondered if there is anyone who is involved in an organisation that is an early adopter who can share what has happened so far and also would be willing to share any local learning as the new framework is implemented? Also, more generally wondered if anyone has any initial comments on the proposals which were mentioned in the NHS patient safety strategy and any things in particular which they think will bring benefit or could represent significant challenges or issues?
  24. Community Post
    What do hub members think about use of the term "near miss" vs "close call" vs "good catch" to describe errors that are caught before the reach or harm the patient? If you have a favorite, can you say why?
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