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Content ArticleThe survey tool contains: Four implementation ratings to assess risk reduction strategies for safe storage and selection. Practical examples of risk reduction strategies. An action plan to inform quality improvement.
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NHS Patient Safety Strategy: February 2021 update
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in NHS Improvement
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Veracuity: Innovative approaches to drug safety
Sam posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
Veracuity was conceived out of a recognition that the practice of pharmacovigilance is performed suboptimally. That is because it relies entirely on a voluntary reporting system – one in which consumers and healthcare professionals must devote considerable energy if they were so inclined to notify somebody about a side effect they attribute to a bio-pharmaceutical product. Adverse event reporting is infrequent and cumbersome because stakeholders are only vaguely aware of their responsibility and the current system is neither easy nor fast to use. Nor does it provide reporters with any immediat -
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Driving quality and assurance: The Virtual NHS Patient Experience Conference
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“Improving patient experience is not simple. As well as effective leadership and a receptive culture, trusts need a whole systems approach to collecting, analysing, using and learning from patient feedback for quality improvement. Without such an approach it is almost impossible to track, measure and drive quality improvement.” NHS England and Improvement 2019 Convenzis are excited to share details of our 1st Virtual NHS Patient Experience Conference to date, this live and interactive session will focus on key findings from the 2019 British Social Attitudes survey and discuss how the 2020 -
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Driving quality improvement through digital solutions during a pandemic
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
untilHow Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals engaged staff to transform quality and free up time for patient care. Perfect Ward & Good Governance Institute will be joined by Carolyn Morrice, Chief Nurse and Matt Hutchinson, Head of Nursing - Quality and Safety from Brighton and Sussex Hospitals who will explain their own situation and how they engaged staff to transform quality and release time for patient care. Perfect Ward is a specialist provider in digital quality improvement and safety solutions across health and social care. Working with leading hospitals and care provide -
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The Beryl Institute: New Existence Webinar Series
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
The New Existence Webinar Series will take an in-depth look at The New Existence framework from The Beryl Institute. Helping to link core ideas and apply practices, each session in the series will focus on a key aim and corresponding actions of The New Existence. This webinar series will help to explore how lead together into the future of healthcare. The full webinar series is listed below. Webinars are scheduled from 2:00-3:00pm ET/1:00-2:00pm CT. Participants are not required to attend each webinar in the series. Click on a title below to register for the individual webinars in the se -
Content ArticleThe CQC strategy is built on four themes that together determine the changes they want to make. Running through each theme is CQC's ambition to improve people’s care by looking at how well health and care systems are working and how they’re acting to reduce inequalities. It is not enough to look at how one service operates in isolation. It is how services work together that has a real impact on people’s experiences and outcomes. The four themes in our draft strategy are: People and communities: CQC want their regulations to be driven by people’s experiences and what they expect and
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News ArticleIn a Letter to the Editor published in The Times yesterday, the All Party Parliamentary Group on First Do No Harm Co-Chair Baroness Julia Cumberlege argues in favour of the work of the Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety (IMMDS) Review and its report 'First Do No Harm'. "Inquiries are only as good as the change for the better that results from their work." Read full letter (paywalled) Source: The Times, 5 January 2021
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Quality improvement from the dining room table
Claire Cox posted an article in Blogs and vlogs
We have just come out of a second lockdown. This time my experiences working in the NHS are very different from the first lockdown back in March 2020. As you may have read in my past blogs, the first lockdown wasn’t really a lockdown for me. As a critical care outreach nurse I was going to work as usual; however, the work I was doing had changed. The way we were adapting our environment, our processes was almost exciting – to be able to directly influence rapid change in a usually bureaucratic organisation was novel. I remained at work, there was no furlough, and there was no isola -
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Content ArticleIn this study from Timmel et al., CUSP was implemented beginning in February 2008 on an 18-bed surgical floor at an academic medical center to improve patient safety, nurse/physician collaboration, and safety on the unit. This unit admits three to six patients per day from up to eight clinical services. Improvements were observed in safety climate, teamwork climate, and nurse turnover rates on a surgical inpatient unit after implementing a safety programme. As part of the CUSP process, staff described safety hazards and then as a team designed and implemented several interventions. C
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