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Content ArticleChanges in the way staff work, including staff taking on new roles and responsibilities, is a well-known policy solution in the NHS, and there are some really good instances where skill mix works well and has real benefits. But are there downsides to the drive to employ new types of staff to help doctors and nurses? What are the implications for continuity of care, staff experience and outcomes? Is the idea of ‘top of the licence’ working a reason for concern in terms of burnout, the fragmentation of care or is it an unavoidable response to the workforce crisis? Chair: Nigel Edwar
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Root Cause Analysis: 2 day masterclass
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untilThis two day intensive masterclass will provide Root Cause Analysis Training in line with the July 2019 Patient Safety Strategy. This intensive two-day masterclass will provide Root Cause Analysis training in line with the 2019 Patient Safety Strategy and subsequent guidance. The course will offer a practical guide to conducting RCA with a focus on systems-based patient safety investigation as proposed within the latest guidance released by NHS England and NHS Improvement. The course provides insights into how RCA is evolving and gives detailed information on what standards RCA investigat -
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Developing your skills as an effective ward manager
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
This conference will bring together current and aspiring Ward Managers to understand current issues and the national context, and to develop your skills as an effective Ward Manager. The conference will open with reflections on the characteristics and qualities required for the role, and understanding your role within quality and specifically meeting the CQC Quality Ratings at Ward level. The conference will include a look at the challenges and issues as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic for Ward Managers. For further information and to book your place visit https://www.healthcareconferen -
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JAG Endoscopy Training System (JETS)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Staff - clinical
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EventDifficult conversations - Thursday 2nd February 2023 Difficult people - Tuesday 7th February 2023 Conflict management - Wednesday 15th February 2023 This 3 day intensive training course will provide an effective guide to improving your communication skills. With each day focusing on difficult conversations, managing difficult people, and conflict and conflict resolution the course will empower you with the skills to deal with difficult issues and difficult situations within your everyday practice. Day 1 - how to deal with and manage difficult conversations. With a focus on
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Advancing Quality Alliance: Safety Culture Survey
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Culture
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Gaining the skills to ASCEND: Leadership & anaesthetic emergencies
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
untilThis ASCEND (acquiring skills, career exploration, networking and development) webinar aims to help students and newly qualified practitioners to develop the practical and personal skills needed to succeed during the early years of their perioperative career. It will focus on two main skills - leadership and the management of anaesthetic emergencies. Leadership is often mistaken for something that only comes with vast experience in a particular discipline. We will be re-examining ‘what is leadership?’ and introducing some leadership opportunities available early in your perioperative care -
Content ArticleTeamSTEPPS has a three-phased process aimed at creating and sustaining a culture of safety with: a pretraining assessment for site readiness. training for onsite trainers and health care staff. implementation and sustainment. The TeamSTEPPS curriculum is an easy-to-use comprehensive multimedia kit that contains: Fundamentals modules in text and presentation format. a pocket guide that corresponds with the essentials version of the course. video vignettes to illustrate key concepts. workshop materials on change management, coaching, and implem
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NHS in England facing worst staffing crisis in history, MPs warn
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
The large number of unfilled NHS job vacancies is posing a serious risk to patient safety, a report by MPs says. It found England is now short of 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses and midwives, calling this the worst workforce crisis in NHS history. It said a reluctance to decisively plug the staffing gap could threaten plans to tackle the Covid treatment backlog. The government said the workforce is growing and NHS England is drawing up long-term plans to recruit more staff. Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who chairs the Commons health and social car -
Content ArticleNICE Guidance NG5: Medicines optimisation: the safe and effective use of medicines to enable the best possible outcomes recommends sharing relevant information about medicines when people move from one care setting to another. Medicines reconciliation should be completed as soon as possible when people have been discharged from hospital or another care setting. Medicines errors can happen when people move between services. You should record a current list of medicine, including: prescribed over-the-counter complementary medicines. You should compare this list wit
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Implementing the Duty of Candour with empathy
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
This masterclass will cover the new guidance and provide participants with an in-depth knowledge of what needs to be done to comply with the duty of candour; clarify ‘grey areas’ and provide advice on dealing with difficult situations which may arise. It will provide participants with an understanding of good practice in implementing the duty and, in particular doing so in a meaningful way with empathy, to not only comply, but to work with patients and loved ones in a way that puts the emotional experience at the heart of communication. Anyone with responsibility for implementing the duty -
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UK’s biggest GP chain replacing doctors with less qualified staff
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
The UK's biggest chain of GP practices lets less qualified staff see patients without adequate supervision, an undercover BBC Panorama investigation has found. Operose Health is putting patients at risk by prioritising profit, says a senior GP. The company, with almost 600,000 NHS patients, is owned by US healthcare giant Centene Corporation. BBC Panorama sent undercover reporter Jacqui Wakefield to work as a receptionist at one of the UK company's 51 London surgeries. A GP working at the practice said they were short of eight doctors. The practice manager said they hired -
Content ArticleTop tips for preparing a business case: Write in the template and style your audience requires; Keep it clear and concise — use correct language that minimises jargon; Communicate all the facts clearly — this provides evidence you have done your homework; Ensure the reader clearly understands your vision and what you want to achieve; Make your writing interesting as stakeholders will need to read it; Ensure the ask to the organisation is clear and aligns with the strategic direction of the trust; Demonstrate any benefits clearly — financial, quality,
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Masterclass: Developing your role as a Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO)
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
This masterclass will focus on developing your role as a SIRO (Senior Information Risk Owner) in health and social care. Key learning objectives: Understanding the role of the Senior Information Risk Owner Identifying Information Risks across the organisation Working with others to mitigate the risk to patients, staff and organisation. Confidence that all reasonable technical and organisation measure are in place Giving assurance to the Board that risks have been considered, mitigated or owned Understand the requirements of external confidence that po -
Content ArticleEveryone who works in health and social care should listen to this podcast in full. I've followed Will's search for justice and I am proud to know Will. A man of great integrity who is campaigning for an individual #dutyofcandour in #healthcare, for the benefit of us all. I remain shocked, when I teach on this, how few know Robbie's story. There has been so much lost learning, a failure of accountability, and a failure to deliver an effective statutory duty of candour. For me, this appalling story of failure and cover up highlights clearly why we have to recognise the value of w
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Being an anti-racist clinician (4 February 2022)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Health inequalities
Key learning aims Knowledge of how racism manifests in therapy, psychology and society. Understanding the difference between racial justice allyship versus saviourship. Increased awareness of microaggressions in therapy. Appreciation of the importance of combatting systemic racism. -
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BAPM Webinar: Sudden unexpected postnatal collapse
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untilThis free to attend webinar is being delivered by BAPM in partnership with the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) to support the launch of the revised framework for practice on newborn infants who suffer a sudden and unexpected postnatal collapse (SUPC). Speakers will provide an overview of the new framework, cover ways to support good practice and reduce the risk of SUPC. This webinar is aimed at perinatal professionals who care for babies in hospital in the first week after birth as well as parents. Programme: The Parent Story Introduction to the new framew
