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Content ArticleFebruary 2023 - Patient feedback, Trust's Patient and Public Voice Policy, Patient Safety Partners, safe wheelchair risk assessment, referral to prolonged jaundice clinic. patient-safety-newsletter-february2023.pdf January 2023 - Dementia friendly ward, National Audit for Inpatient Falls (NAIF), investigation training, CQUINS, ePMA, Health Visitor teams. patient-safety-newsletter-janaury2023.pdf December 2022 - Supporting hydration (HCSW Innovation Idea project), deteriorating patient thematic review, investigation training, checking the right saline, Professional Nurse Adv
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Top Picks: 10 key resources on pressure ulcers
Patient_Safety_Learning posted an article in Pressure ulcers
Click on the headings below to read more about each resource. 1. Skin Assessment: Assessing skin on patients with darker skin tones in relation to PU prevention In this 56 minute presentation by The Society of Tissue Viability, Jacqui Fletcher looks at how wound care and pressure ulcer prevention can be improved for patients with darker skin tones. 2. Guys and St Thomas' Stop The Pressure pledge wall As part for their #STOPthepressure 2022 awareness campaign, Guys and St Thomas' started a pledge wall for all staff to contribute to by making a personal pledge. Their goal is to -
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Guys and St Thomas' Stop The Pressure pledge wall
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Wounds UK: Best Practice Statements
Patient_Safety_Learning posted an article in Pressure ulcers
Best Practice Statements include: Holistic management on venous leg ulceration Active treatment of non-healing wounds in the community Addressing skin tone bias in wound care: Assessing signs and symptoms in people with dark skin tones Care of the person with diabetes and lower leg ulcers Post operative wound care: reducing the risk of surgical site infection You can access all of the Best Practice Statements via the link below. -
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Rise in hospital falls and bed sores in Scotland since pandemic
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The number of falls and bed sores recorded in Scotland's hospitals has increased since the Covid pandemic, new data shows. NHS staffing pressures and the deconditioning effect of the Covid lockdown creating more frail patients are being blamed for the rise. The Scottish government paused work on a national prevention strategy for falls when the pandemic started. The strategy has now been shelved and experts argue this is a mistake. Figures released by NHS Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) show that in 2018-19 - the last full year before the Covid pandemic - a total of 26,489 -
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Content ArticleRocco Friebel and Laia Maynou examined the prevalence of five avoidable in-hospital patient safety incidents (adverse drug reactions, hospital-acquired infections, pressure ulcers, postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis, and postoperative sepsis) for four developmental disability groups (people with intellectual disability, chromosomal abnormalities, pervasive developmental disorders, and congenital malformation syndrome) in the NHS during the period April 2017–March 2019. The authors found that the likelihood of experiencing harm in disability groups was up to 2.7-fold
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Community PostHi All Pressure ulcers are one the highest reported incidents/ areas for investigation within my directorate and I can see both arguments for investigating to the enth degree or not at all. I sit in the middle, of course! How have the early adopters approached pressure ulcer incidents and investigating these. I know my tissue viability colleagues are slightly twitched by the changes. I welcome all thoughts and am open to ideas!
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Stop the Pressure: Pressure ulcer prevention & management
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This conference focuses on the prevention and management of pressure ulcers including monitoring, reporting and improvement and will focus on Learning from the Inaugural National Pressure Ulcer Prevalence and Quality of Care Audit and reflecting on the challenges of Covid-19. The conference will open with National Developments from the National Wound Care Strategy Programme, learning from the inaugural Stop the Pressure: National Pressure Ulcer Prevalence and Quality of Care Audit and understanding Pressure Ulcers and Covid-19. The conference will continue with a focus on training and educatin -
News ArticleDying patients are going without care in their own homes because of a collapse in community nursing services, new data shared with The Independent reveals. Across England a third of district nurses say they are now being forced to delay visits to end of life care patients because of surging demand and a lack of staff. This is up from just 2% in 2015. The situation means some patients may have to wait for essential care and pain medication to keep them comfortable. Other care being delayed includes patients with pressure ulcers, wounds which need treating and patients needing blocked
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Stop the Pressure: Pressure ulcer prevention & management
Patient Safety Learning posted a calendar event in Community Calendar
This conference focuses on the prevention and management of pressure ulcers including monitoring, reporting and improvement and will focus on Learning from the Inaugural National Pressure Ulcer Prevalence and Quality of Care Audit and reflecting on the challenges of COVID-19. The conference will open with National Developments from the National Wound Care Strategy Programme, learning from the inaugural Stop the Pressure: National Pressure Ulcer Prevalence and Quality of Care Audit and understanding Pressure Ulcers and COVID-19. The conference will continue with a focus on training and edu -
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Managing the burden of wounds by focusing on prevention
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untilThe NHS spends £8.3 billion a year treating chronic wounds on an estimated 3.8 million people, according to the recently updated study evaluating the “Burden of Wounds” to the NHS. Costs have increased by 48% in the five years since the study was first published and the overwhelming majority of this burgeoning demand, around 80% of the caseload, impacts on community healthcare. This session chaired by Jacqui Fletcher OBE, focusses on managing the burden of wounds by focusing on prevention, and how technology and digitisation will enable a prevention focus. Prof Julian Guest will focu -
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A year ago, you implemented a new approach to auditing at Barnsley. Can you tell us what prompted it? In healthcare, we tend to measure safety by looking at negatives. The number of falls, the number of category 2 pressure ulcers, the number of adverse events etc. Our whole system is built on it, from local auditing and Datix reporting, to CQC inspections. But counting the number of pressure ulcers for example, doesn’t really tell you about the standards of pressure ulcer care. I wanted to look at things differently; to focus more on the interventions and good practice that helps ke -
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Stop The Pressure: Pressure ulcer prevention and management
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Chaired by Tina Chambers Past Chair Tissue Viability Society Tissue Viability Consultant, Educator and Advisor & Member, Stop the Pressure Clinical Workstream The National Wound Care Strategy Programme, this conference focuses on the prevention and management of pressure ulcers including monitoring, reporting and improvement and will focus on Learning from the Inaugural National Pressure Ulcer Prevalence and Quality of Care Audit and reflecting on the challenges of COVID-19. The conference will open with a timely presentation from Jacqui Fletcher Clinical Lead The National Wound Care
