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  1. Content Article
    This article provides an overview of recent legislative developments intended to create a new independent board within the Department of Health and Human Services to improve patient safety in the United States of America.
  2. News Article
    Patient Safety Awareness Week, an annual recognition event in the USA that occurs in March, is intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. During this week, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) seeks to advance important discussions locally and globally, and inspire action to improve the safety of the health care system — for patients and the workforce. Patient Safety Awareness Week serves as a dedicated time and platform for growing awareness about patient safety and recognising the work already being done. IHI works with partners around the world to improve the safety of health care for patients, caregivers, and the health care workforce. Learn more about IHI's work to advance patient and workforce safety.
  3. Event
    At this webinar, WHO will launch two WHO publications on Medication Safety, “Global burden of preventable medication-related harm” and “Policy brief on Medication Without Harm”, to create awareness and to support implementation of the WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm. Register
  4. Content Article
    The National Quality and Patient Safety Directorate (NQPSD) is a team of healthcare professionals working within the national Health Service Executive (HSE) Ireland to improve patient safety and quality of care. They work in collaboration with Health Service Executive operations, patient partners, healthcare workers and other internal and external partners. Their work is guided by the Patient Safety Strategy 2019-2024. 
  5. Content Article
    Sharing his own personal experiences of harm, Richard highlights four routes where patients and families can report patient safety incidents to ensure patients' voices can be heard and, most importantly, acted upon.
  6. Content Article
    Patient care inevitably raises issues of safety. Safety measures can never be failsafe, but they can always be improved. The aim of this publication is to offer guidance to boards on helping to bring about these improvements. The publication was developed by Monitor for NHS foundation trusts, though its principles apply equally to other NHS settings. It draws on evidence and best practices from UK pilot sites, and also taps the experience of healthcare providers in other developed countries who use similar principles and approaches. The field research and work with the UK pilot sites took place between October 2009 and March 2010.
  7. Content Article
    Recording of the European Patient Safety Foundation conference which took place on the 17 November in Vienna, Austria.
  8. Content Article
     The World Health Organization (WHO) has shared a list of key milestones in their Global Patient Safety Journey during 2023.
  9. Content Article
    This advocacy brief aims to raise awareness and calls for action to step up patient engagement in healthcare, in line with the objectives of World Patient Safety Day 2023. Its content was structured to follow the outline of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030, which defines and makes recommendations to stakeholder groups.
  10. Content Article
    In this blog, Patient Safety Learning’s Chief Executive Helen Hughes reflects on the charity’s work and some of the key patient safety developments in the past 12 months and looks ahead to 2024.
  11. Content Article
    Presentation slides from Session 1 of the SEHTA 2023 International MedTech Expo & Conference. This session was on patient voice engagement. Presentations can be downloaded below.
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    Patient Safety Movement Foundation invites you to the 11th World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit. Patient safety thought leaders and advocates from around the globe will come together to share their expertise and develop transformative solutions to enhance safety and outcomes of care for patients worldwide. Register
  13. News Article
    Loughborough University is collaborating with NHS England to deliver learning to hundreds of healthcare professionals in a bid to improve patient safety. Human factors and ergonomics experts in the School of Design and Creative Arts will deliver Levels 3 and 4 of the NHS Patient Safety Syllabus and Curriculum after winning a competitive tender process. Under the leadership of Dr Mike Fray, supported by Professor Sue Hignett and Professor Thomas Jun, the Loughborough University team will craft and deliver educational content to 820 patient safety specialists across various NHS Trusts in England from 2023 to 2024. In 2021, the NHS Patient Safety Syllabus was created by drawing upon best practice from a number of safety-critical industries. It has as a core aim of changing how staff think about improving patient safety. The key to this is switching the focus to proactive prevention of safety incidents, and away from the current largely retrospective analyses. Dr Fray believes Loughborough University’s world-leading reputation in the delivery of human factors and ergonomics education will help the NHS achieve its goals. Dr Fray said: “No healthcare worker goes to work thinking they will do harm, but the systems, processes and complexity of the work can lead to errors, omissions, or reductions in quality of care. “With this new course we will be able to support patient safety specialists in each Trust to lead safety improvement work and provide safety science expertise to their organisations so that patients across the NHS can benefit.” Aidan Fowler, National Director of Patient Safety said: ‘’Training and education is at the centre of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy so that we can empower people with the latest skills and knowledge in patient safety science. “The launch of this training for our patient safety specialists is the latest development in this work, using the syllabus created with the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and adding to the training already available to all staff in the NHS.” Read full story Source: Loughborough University, 15 November 2023
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    The Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) sets out a new approach to learning and improving following patient safety incidents across the NHS in England. PSIRF embedding webinars will feature presentations from NHS organisations and will focus on sharing experiences, adaptions and learning as the designed systems and processes put in place prior to transition are operationalised. Recordings, slides and Q&As from our transition webinars series can be found on Future NHS alongside other workshops and supplementary materials and resources: PSIRF Presentations - NHS Patient Safety - FutureNHS Collaboration Platform Audience: Embedding webinars are open to everyone to attend, including both NHS and arm’s length bodies. Presenters: Tracey Herlihey, Head of Patient Safety Incident Response, NHS England Peter Ledwith, Deputy Director of Governance, East Cheshire NHS Trust Liam Oliver, Senior Patient Safety Manager, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board Register
  15. Content Article
    Patient Safety Partners (PSPs) are being recruited by NHS organisations across England as part of NHS England’s Framework for involving patients in patient safety. PSPs can be patients, relatives, carers or other members of the public who want to support and contribute to a healthcare organisation’s governance and management processes for patient safety.  In this blog, Chris Wardley, PSP at a large NHS hospital trust, introduces the Patient Safety Partners Network (PSPN). Chris describes his own experience of starting as a PSP, talks about the large scope of the role and highlights the unique opportunity to influence how an organisation approaches patient safety. He also invites PSPs to join the new network, talking about how it is already helping PSPs in England share learning as they shape their new roles.
  16. Content Article
    Since the 2007 landmark report on Preventing Medication Errors from the US National Academy of Medicine, effective interventions have been developed to address medication errors. Despite this, medication errors persist as the most common source of harm for patients worldwide. In this Editorial, Albert Wu looks at whether WHO's “The 5 Moments for Medication Safety” as a patient engagement tool has reached its intended audience.
  17. News Article
    The Health and Social Care Select Committee have commissioned an Expert Panel to consider the Government’s progress against accepted recommendations from public inquiries and reviews on patient safety. The Panel will consider a range of recommendations made by public inquiries and reviews on both patient safety and whistleblowing and subsequently select a number of these for evaluation. The Panel will in its final report provide a rating of the Government’s progress against each of these recommendations. Panel members are: Professor Dame Jane Dacre (Chair). Sir Robert Francis KC Anita Charlesworth Professor Stephen Peckham Sir David Pearson Professor Emma Cave Read full story Source: House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee, 24 October 2023
  18. News Article
    The Nigerian government has developed the National Policy and Implementation Strategy on Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality. The development, the government said, is part of efforts to improve the safety of all medical procedures and enhance the quality of healthcare delivery. The Permanent Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Health, Kachollom Daju, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday. At the briefing, which was in commemoration of the 2023 World Patient Safety Day, Ms Daju said the national policy is in line with resolution 18 of the 55th World Health Assembly which called for member states to recognise the burden of patient safety and to set up policies to manage them. “This policy focuses on improving patient and family engagement in healthcare, medication safety, surgical safety, infection prevention & control, safety of all medical procedures and others,” said Ms Daju. She said the federal government is hopeful that health facilities at all levels will adopt and implement this policy. She noted that patient safety fundamentally entails preventing errors and minimising harm to patients during provision of healthcare services. Read full story Source: Premium Times, 19 September 2023
  19. News Article
    The WHO-hosted global conference on patient safety and patient engagement concluded yesterday with agreement across a broad range of stakeholders on a first-ever Patient safety rights charter. It outlines the core rights of all patients in the context of safety of healthcare and seeks to assist governments and other stakeholders to ensure that the voices of patients are heard and their right to safe health care is protected. “Patient safety is a collective responsibility. Health systems must work hand-in-hand with patients, families, and communities, so that patients can be informed advocates in their own care, and every person can receive the safe, dignified, and compassionate care they deserve,” said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Because if it’s not safe, it’s not care.” "Our health systems are stronger, our work is empowered, and our care is safer when patients and families are alongside us,” said Sir Liam Donaldson, WHO Patient Safety Envoy. “The journey to eliminate avoidable harm in health care has been a long one, and the stories of courage and compassion from patients and families who have suffered harm are pivotal to driving change and learning to be even safer." The global conference on patient engagement for patient safety was the key event to mark World Patient Safety Day (WPSD) which will be observed on 17 September under the theme “Engaging patients for patient safety”. Meaningful involvement of patients, families and caregivers in the provision of health care, and their experiences and perspectives, can contribute to enhancing health care safety and quality, saving lives and reducing costs, and the WPSD aims to promote and accelerate better patient and family engagement in the design and delivery of safe health services. At the conference, held on 12 and 13 September, WHO unveiled two new resources to support key stakeholders in implementing involvement of patients, families and caregivers in the provision of health care. Drawing on the power of patient stories, which is one of the most effective mechanisms for driving improvements in patient safety, a storytelling toolkit will guide patients and families through the process of sharing their experiences, especially those related to harmful events within health care. The Global Knowledge Sharing Platform, created as part of a strategic partnership with SingHealth Institute for Patient Safety and Quality Singapore, supports the exchange of global resources, best practices, tools and resources related to patient safety, acknowledging the pivotal role of knowledge sharing in advancing safety. “Patient engagement and empowerment is at the core of the Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030. It is one of the most powerful tools to improve patient safety and the quality of care, but it remains an untapped resource in many countries, and the weakest link in the implementation of patient safety measures and strategies. With this World Patient Safety Day and the focus on patient engagement, we want to change that”, said Dr Neelam Dhingra, head of the WHO Patient Safety Flagship. Read full story Source: WHO, 14 September 2023
  20. Content Article
    Historically, patient safety efforts have focused mostly on measuring and responding to harm. However, safety is much more than the absence of harm. Instead, patient safety includes looking at the whole system: its past, present and future in all its complexity. Healthcare Excellence Canada and Patients for Patient Safety Canada held many conversations with users of the health system, people who work in healthcare and safety scientists. The ideas collected suggest a new way of approaching patient safety – where everyone can contribute to creating safe conditions and where harm is more than physical. This discussion guide summarises what has been learned so far and captured in this key statement: Everyone contributes to patient safety. Together we must learn and act to create safer care and reduce all forms of healthcare harm.
  21. Content Article
    In this article for the Journal of Patient Safety, Alan Card from the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, argues that the purpose of patient safety work is to reduce avoidable patient harm, and this requires us to slay dragons—to eliminate or at least mitigate risks to patients. He expresses the view that current practice focuses almost exclusively on investigating dragons—tracking reports on the number and type of dragons that appear, how many villagers they eat and where, whether they live in caves or forests and so on. He argues that while information about risks is useful to the extent that it informs effective action, it does nothing to make patients safer by itself: "We cannot investigate a dragon to death. No more can we risk assess our way to safer care."
  22. Content Article
    Getting the president of the United States to consider enacting your policy proposals is a major achievement. Having him actually implement them is an accomplishment that can change lives. The patient safety movement reached that first milestone with a recent report by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology entitled, A Transformational Effort on Patient Safety. Whether advocates achieve the second, crucial goal remains very much an open question. The PCAST casts a wide net, examining everything from nanotechnology to the public health workforce. It appears until now to have addressed patient safety only tangentially, when in 2014 it was a small part of a larger report on accelerating health system improvement through systems engineering.  The good news for patient safety advocates is that President Joe Biden has shown a genuine understanding of the issue. Leah Binder, president of the Leapfrog Group, hailed the report in a statement that singled out two of the recommendations. The first one was to publicly report Never Events (medical errors that never should have happened) by individual facility. The second was a recommendation to establish a National Patient Safety Team. A major barrier standing between recommendation and implementation is the patient safety movement’s paltry political power. At present, patient safety has little public awareness and no grassroots constituency. Hospitals, on the other hand, are an integral part of almost every Congressional district, have a largely positive public image and are facing tough financial pressures. The White House will think long and hard about taking any actions hospitals see as unreasonable.
  23. Content Article
    This is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Ashley talks to us about the need to professionalise patient safety roles while also upskilling frontline healthcare staff to improve patient safety, describing the role that professional coaching can play. He also discusses the challenges we face in understanding how AI affects decision making in healthcare and how it could contribute to patient safety incidents.
  24. Content Article
    The protests outside the Scottish Parliament took an alarming turn recently with people wearing hospital gowns spattered with blood. The demonstrators were former patients of neurosurgeon Sam Eljamel, many allegedly harmed by him and still suffering and searching for answers years later. A public inquiry has been announced by the First Minister. As the Patient Safety Commissioner for Scotland Bill makes its way into law, Alan Clamp, chief executive officer of the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care, asks what this means for Scotland and the safety of its patients? See also: Working together to achieve safer care for all: a blog by Alan Clamp
  25. Event
    This conference focuses on patient involvement and partnership for patient safety including implementing the New National Framework for involving patients in patient safety, and developing the role of the Patient Safety Partner (PSP) in your organisation or service. The conference will also cover engagement of patients and families in serious incidents, and patient involvement under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework published in August 2022. This conference will enable you to: Network with colleagues who are working to involve patients in improving patient safety. Reflect on patient perspective. Understand the practicalities of recruiting Patient Safety Partners. Improve the way you recruit, work with and support Patient Safety Partners. Develop your skills in embedding compassion and empathy into patient partnership. Examine the role of patients under the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). Understand how you can improve patient partnership, family engagement and involvement after serious incidents. Identify key strategies for support patients, their families and carers to be directly involved in their own or their loved one’s safety. Learn from case studies demonstrating patient partnership for patients safety in action. Examine methods of involving patients to improve patient safety in high risk areas. Self assess and reflect on your own practice. Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes. Register **Five free places for hub members. Email info@pslhub.org for code**
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