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EventThis conference focuses on quality accreditation, monitoring and assurance. The conference will support you to develop systems and processes for local accreditation for quality. Accreditation can be used as a tool to encouraging ownership of continuous quality improvement, reduce variation and increase staff pride and team working. There will be an extended focus on meeting the CQC Quality Statements in line with the new assessment framework. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/quality-accreditation or email kate@hc-uk.org.uk Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #QualityAccreditation hub members receive a 20% discount. Email info@pslhub.org for discount code.
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USA: Patient Safety Awareness Week
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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.- Posted
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Content ArticleCentral venous catheters (CVCs) are widely used in US critical care settings for medication administration, monitoring and reliable venous access. Despite the benefits of CVCs, complications, particularly infections, have become a major focus of US hospital quality improvement efforts due to federal and state initiatives that emphasise patient safety, transparency and accountability. In this commentary in JAMA Network, the authors look at recent research surrounding CVC complications and highlight approaches to help tackle these issues.
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Content ArticleEnthusiasm has grown about using patients’ narratives—stories about care experiences in patients’ own words—to advance organisations’ learning about the care that they deliver and how to improve it, but studies confirming association have not been published. This study assessed whether primary care clinics that frequently share patients’ narratives with their staff have higher patient experience survey scores. It found that sharing narratives with staff frequently is associated with better patient experience survey scores, conditional on confidence in knowledge. Frequently sharing useful patient narratives should be encouraged as an organizational improvement strategy. However, organisations need to address how narrative feedback interacts with their staff’s confidence to realize higher experience scores across domains.
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Content ArticleTo decrease surgical site infections after appendectomy for acute appendicitis, preoperative broad-spectrum antibiotics are often used in clinical practice. However, this treatment strategy has come under scrutiny because of increasing rates of antibiotic-resistant infections. This multisite quality improvement project aimed to decrease the treatment of uncomplicated acute appendicitis with piperacillin-tazobactam without increasing the rate of surgical site infections. The intervention had two distinct components: Updating electronic health record orders to encourage preoperative administration of narrow-spectrum antibiotics. Educating surgeons and emergency department clinicians about selecting appropriate antibiotic therapy for acute appendicitis. Patient demographics, clinical characteristics and outcomes were compared six months before and after implementation of the quality improvement intervention. The intervention successfully decreased piperacillin-tazobactam administration without increasing the rate of surgical site infections in patients with acute appendicitis.
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AQUA: Measuring for Improvement
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On this programme you will learn the benefits of taking an approach to measurement, focused specifically on improvement. You’ll discover a range of techniques to understand variation and measure change. This programme comprises of two modules, with an opportunity at the end to discuss your own measurement project. Our fast measurement start-up. You’ll learn about the different types of variation. You’ll be able to produce a Statistical Process Control (SPC) chart and understand what it’s telling you. In this session you will explore measurement in more depth, such as advanced SPC charts and confidence intervals, to help you dig into your data and turn it into intelligence you can act upon. Who is this for? Individuals who want to discover a range of techniques to understand variation and measure change. Register -
Content ArticleThis annual report published by the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health (NCISH) contains findings relating to people aged 10 and above who died by suicide between 2011 and 2021 across all of the UK. View an infographic outlining the report's key findings.
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EventSpeaker: Professor Ian Leistikow; Adviser at the Dutch Health & Youth Care Inspectorate and Professor at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands Challenges that health and care faces, translate to challenges for the regulatory authorities. Classic regulatory strategies aimed at compliance increasingly fall short in contributing to quality of (health)care. In this webinar Ian will use the model of ‘value driven regulation’ to show how the Dutch Inspectorate strives to keep up with the dynamics of the sectors it regulates, by keeping its eye on creating societal value. Ian will also give an overview of the broad range of scientific research projects within the Inspectorate aimed at improving the positive impact of its regulation. Find out more
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Content ArticleThe 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.
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EventThis event gives trainees at all levels the opportunity to attend, present and gain feedback on their Audit and QI work. Further lectures will include the McKeown Medal Lecture, a keynote on patient safety and discussion from a Trainee Committee member. Trainees are invited to submit their abstracts for consideration for presentation at this event. Topics for submission: General Surgery, Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, Specialties & Common Interest and Patient Safety. Register
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Content ArticleThe Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) are a set of quality indicators developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) providing information on potential hospital complications and adverse events after surgeries, procedures, and childbirth. They have been used for the past two decades in the USA for monitoring potentially preventable patient safety events in the inpatient setting through the automated screening of readily available administrative data. However, these indicators are also used for hospital benchmarking and cross-country comparisons in other nations with different health-care settings and coding systems as well as missing present on admission (POA) flags in the administrative data. This study sought to comprehensively assess and compare the validity of 16 PSIs in Switzerland, where they have not been previously applied.
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Content ArticleAuthors of this editorial, published in BMJ Quality and Safety, conclude by stating that while the use of classification to identify patients who have additional needs and/or are at increased risk of harm has potential benefits, care needs to be taken to avoid possible harm and unintended consequences. They highlight several actions that would help ensure the benefits of classification are maximised, but note that none of these are necessarily easy to achieve in practice, especially in the context of overwhelmed and under-resourced health services. However, ensuring that patients with additional needs and/or risks have these appropriately identified and responded to while receiving healthcare must be a priority. The need for healthcare to be equitable, that is, not vary in quality because of a patient’s personal characteristics, is recognised as an important quality dimension, and this issue has received increased attention in recent years. If used well, classification can be part of the move to ensuring more equitable care for those with additional needs.
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Content ArticleThis article outlines a recent improvement put in place by a ward at Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital, part of University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust. The team won an award for implementing learning following a patient fall to help drastically reduce the frequency of incidents and improving patient safety.
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Content ArticleJoin Alan Lindemann, an obstetrics-gynecology physician, who shares his insights and real-life experiences, shedding light on the issues surrounding patient care, medical decision-making, and the role of institutions and personal connections in shaping health care outcomes. Discover how the pursuit of quality care can sometimes be obstructed by self-interest and the need to protect reputations. Alan also proposes innovative ideas to enhance transparency and public involvement in health care quality assurance.
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Content ArticleEmergency surgical patients are at high risk for harm because of errors in care. Quality improvement methods that involve process redesign, such as “Lean,” appear to improve service reliability and efficiency in healthcare. This study found that lean can substantially and simultaneously improve compliance with a bundle of safety related processes. Given the interconnected nature of hospital care, this strategy might not translate into improvements in safety outcomes unless a system-wide approach is adopted to remove barriers to change.
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EventThis webinar will cover NIHR research that could help improve the safety and quality of maternity care. Speakers will present actionable evidence that attendees can implement in their own practice. Presentations will be followed by a Q&A session, giving you a unique opportunity to quiz the researchers on how you could act on this research, and reflect on potential barriers and facilitators. The webinar will cover: women’s experiences of labour induction the 7 features of safe care in maternity units the role of hospital boards in improving maternity care. Register
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Content ArticleIn his IHI Forum 2023 address, IHI President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Don Berwick explained why competitiveness does not lead to the best possible care. He shared his view on the limitations of free-market healthcare and his personal experience of how kindness can support our efforts to improve care.
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Content ArticleFew interventions that succeed in improving healthcare locally end up becoming spread and sustained more widely. This indicates that we need to think differently about spreading improvements in practice. Drawing on a focused review of academic and grey literature, the authors outline how spread, scale-up, and sustainability have been defined and operationalised, highlighting areas of ambiguity and contention. Following an overview of relevant frameworks and models, they focus on three specific approaches and unpack their theoretical assumptions and practical implications: the Dynamic Sustainability Framework, the 3S (structure, strategy, supports) infrastructure approach for scale-up, and the NASSS (non-adoption, abandonment, and challenges to scale-up, spread, and sustainability) framework. Key points are illustrated through empirical case narratives and the Element concludes with actionable learning for those engaged in improvement activities and for researchers.
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Content ArticleBoards and leaders of healthcare organisations are legally responsible for the performance of their organisation and must take definitive responsibility for improvements, successful delivery and failures in the quality of care. Board effectiveness relies on the ways in which board members translate their knowledge and information into quality and safety plans with measurable goals, maintain oversight on progress towards these goals and hold the chief executive accountable for these goals. This resource by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute lists tools available to boards and board members to allow them to understand their legislative responsibilities for quality and safety, conduct self-evaluation and understand the competencies needed to lead on quality and patient safety.
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Monitor: The role of boards in improving patient safety (2010)
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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.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis guide by the Health Foundation can be used to make the case for improvement to policy, executive, operational and front-line audiences, and to initiate and support conversations about the benefits of improvement approaches among key stakeholders. The guide is divided into four broad areas improvement approaches can benefit: the health and care workforce patients, service users and society organisations and system-level bodies. Specific examples are given for each area, illustrating the diverse and multi-faceted benefits that come from improvement approaches.
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Patient safety culture and quality: The missing link
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EventThis conference will focus on measuring, understanding and acting on patient experience insight, and demonstrating responsiveness to that insight to ensure patient feedback is translated into quality improvement and assurance. Through national updates and case study presentations the conference will support you to measure, monitor and improve patient experience in your service, and ensure that insight leads to quality improvement. Sessions will include learning from patients, improving patient experience, practical sessions focusing on delivering a patient experience based culture, measuring patient experience, demonstrating insight and responsiveness in real time, monitoring and improving staff experience, the role of human factors in improving quality, using patient experience to drive improvement, changing the way we think about patient experience, and learning from excellence in patient experience practice. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/patient-experience-insight or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #PatientExp hub members receive a 20% discount. Email info@pslhub.org for the discount code.
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EventClinical Audit for Improvement 2024 is now in its 24th year and brings together clinicians, senior/middle managers and leading local and national clinical audit and improvement experts. Over the last two decades this event has become the ‘must-attend’ annual conference for clinical audit and QI professionals. Historically this one-day virtual conference has featured national updates with leaders providing information on relevant current and future policy. However, in 2024 the focus will change slightly with more emphasis on practical skills and techniques needed by those involved in delivering clinical audit projects at a local and/or national level. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk/virtual-online-courses/clinical-audit-improvement-summit or email frida@hc-uk.org.uk hub members receive a 20% discount. Email info@pslhub.org for the discount code. Follow on Twitter @HCUK_Clare #ClinicalAudit2024
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Content ArticleDespite their widespread use, the evidence base for the effectiveness of quality improvement collaboratives remains mixed. Lack of clarity about ‘what good looks like’ in collaboratives remains a persistent problem. This qualitative study in BMJ Open aimed to identify the distinctive features of a state-wide collaboratives programme that has demonstrated sustained improvements in quality of care in a range of clinical specialties over a long period. The authors identified five features that characterised success in the collaboratives programme: learning from positive deviance high-quality coordination high-quality measurement and comparative performance feedback careful use of motivational levers mobilising professional leadership and building community.
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