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Key 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.- Posted
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Who we are The Quality Network for Inpatient Working Age Mental Health Services (QNWA) was first established in 2006 as AIMS (Accreditation for Inpatient Mental Health Services), which later specialised to AIMS-WA (Working Age), before becoming a quality network in the summer of 2020. The Network was founded to promote better standards of care within mental health inpatient wards following the publication of findings from the National Audit of Violence 2003-2005, which highlighted the concerning high prevalence of violence on acute wards, but also concluded that examples of good practice w- Posted
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International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Sam posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
untilThe Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and BMJ bring you one of the largest international conferences focused on improving outcomes for patients and communities through quality improvement. Themed Adapting to a changing world: equity, sustainability and wellbeing for all, the conference programme will focus on how the improvement movement can help healthcare systems adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Key topics we will address include equity, sustainability, wellbeing and learning from adverse events. Further information and registration- Posted
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What is a driver diagram? (LifeQI, December 2022)
Patient_Safety_Learning posted an article in Quality Improvement
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Oesophago-gastric cancer report 2022 (NOGCA, 12 January 2023)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Cancers
The report contains a number of findings related to: patterns of care at diagnosis staging and treatment planning waiting times along the care pathway curative surgery non-curative treatments. It also includes findings relating to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, including: In April 2020, the number of patients diagnosed with OG cancer was 43.6% of the 2019/20 monthly average, falling from 837 to 365 cases per month. The numbers diagnosed soon returned to normal levels, and in the period from June 2020 to March 2021, the number of monthly- Posted
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Recommendations Every person to receive an early and accurate diagnosis based on a guideline-defined approach and a plan for their care Care to be provided to people with asthma and COPD within the recommended timeframe after hospital admission, to support optimal outcomes People with asthma and COPD to receive care by appropriately trained healthcare professionals, at each stage of their care pathway, and Primary, secondary and community services to implement ways to work together, offering people with asthma and COPD a seamless pathway of care.- Posted
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- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Ten key themes Prevention Early intervention Access to quality, compassionate care Seeing the bigger picture Whole-person care Equality focus Co-production Autonomy, human rights and community support A stronger workforce Outcomes that matter Three requirements to make the vision a reality Sustained and sufficient investment Effective long-term workforce development and planning A deep commitment to large-scale reform, innovation and change- Posted
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Webinar recording Presentation slides- Posted
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In less than 1 year they increased patient safety incident reporting by 37% while simultaneously decreasing: falls with injury by 39% pressure injury rates by 37% central line–associated blood stream infections by 34%. They also improved medication reconciliation rate by 3.3% and decreased their irretrievable specimen rate to 0. Finally, they noted increased awareness around patient safety within clinical teams, with open discussions about patient safety becoming a routine part of patient care. Read the summary via the link below (full access is paywalled).- Posted
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- Organisational Performance
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