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Content ArticleIn this interview for Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare, Andrea Truex, chief nursing officer of Englewood Community Hospital, Florida, talks about how focusing on communication can enhance patient safety.
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Content ArticleAntibiotic resistance is a natural phenomenon that happens when bacteria develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them. This case study focuses on large outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant strains of cholera and typhoid in Zimbabwe. It describes the steps taken to tackle the outbreaks, including a mass typhoid Vi-conjugate vaccine (TCV) vaccination campaign from February to March 2019 in nine suburbs of Harare that were severely affected by the outbreak.
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Hannah Hylton is a highly specialised respiratory physiotherapist at Barts Health NHS Trust. During the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, she was part of the team that designed the Trust’s after-Covid services, including the Living With Covid Recovery app. In this interview, Hannah explains how the app works and how it is being used by Trusts around the UK to support over 1,500 patients living with Long Covid. -
Community PostHave you used an app to help manage or track Long Covid symptoms? Please share your experience with us. Which app(s) have you used? Was it 'prescribed' by a doctor or healthcare professional, or did you access it for yourself? How has it helped your Long Covid recovery? How could it be improved?
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WHO: World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2021
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Medication
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week takes place from the 18-24 November every year. On this page the WHO explains what antimicrobial resistance is and provides several short explanatory videos about how this can be prevented. -
Content ArticleThis blog on the tech website Mashable outlines the key points of a recent international consensus statement on open-source automated insulin delivery. It discusses the need for a consensus statement, the impact of this technology on the lives of people with diabetes and the importance of the statement in paving the way for further user-driven technologies and innovations in healthcare.
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Content ArticleThis guidance from the General Medical Council sets out the how doctors should raise and act on concerns about patient care, dignity and safety.
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National Maternity and Perinatal Audit lay summaries (2021)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Maternity
The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) has produced lay summaries covering three of its sprint audits into: perinatal mental health services maternity care for women with a body mass index of 30kg/m2 or above ethnic and socio-economic inequalities in NHS maternity care. The NMPA is a large-scale project established to provide data and information to those working in and using maternity services. The purpose of NMPA is to evaluate and improve NHS maternity services, as well as to support women, birthing people and their families to use the data in their decision-making. -
Content ArticleThis best practice guideline for healthcare professionals covers optimum injection technique for people with diabetes taking injectable medications. It is an update to the original Injection Technique Matters guideline published in 2009.
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Content ArticleUptake of open-source automated insulin delivery systems is increasing globally and there is growing real-world, user-driven evidence around the safety and effectiveness of these systems. This article in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology seeks to provide, from an international perspective: a review of the current evidence a description of the technologies discussion of the ethical and legal considerations a healthcare consensus supporting the implementation of open-source systems in clinical settings, with detailed clinical guidance. The authors make recommendations for key stakeholders involved in diabetes technologies, including developers, regulators, and industry.
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EventuntilThis event will launch the results of MHP Health's first Patient Voice Panel, which has been brought together through a collaboration with the Patients Association. The Patient Voice Panel includes patients with long term conditions from all demographics across the UK. The Panel aims to understand lived patient experiences to help inform effective patient engagement strategies. The event will share patient insights on the debate around remote consultations versus in person care, looking closely at the challenges to shared decision making in a digital world. It will bring together patients, professional bodies and the pharmaceutical industry, together with patients who participated in the MHP/ Patients Association Patient Voice Panel. The Patients Association Chief Executive Rachel Power is one of the speakers. To register for the event, please email mhp.events@mhpc.com
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Content ArticleThis editorial in The Lancet examines the growing gap between the mental health needs of children and young people in the UK, and the services available to support them. It comments on the report by the Children's Commissioner 'The state of children’s mental health services 2018/19', which highlighted that an estimated 13% of children aged 5–19 years in England have a mental health disorder, with the true numbers of children affected are likely to be much higher. The article looks at treatment delays, long waiting lists and the denial of treatment for children whose symptoms are not considered 'serious enough'. It highlights chronic underfunding and lack of parity between physical and mental health problems as major causes.
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Content ArticleEach year, Carers UK carries out a survey of carers to understand the state of caring in the UK, and this is the largest State of Caring survey carried out by Carers UK to date. Over 8,500 carers and former carers shared their experiences.
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Content ArticleThis report by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) outlines 10 indicators that NHS is under unsustainable pressure. It refutes claims by Government ministers that pressures on health and care services are sustainable, stating that disaster for the NHS can only be prevented by addressing workforce shortages.
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Content ArticleThis document outlines the Royal College of Emergency Medicine’s (RCEM) systemwide plan to improve patient care. The RCEM CARES campaign addresses pressing issues facing emergency departments (EDs) so that staff can deliver safe and timely care for patients. The campaign focuses on five key areas: Crowding, Access, Retention, Experience, and Safety.
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Content ArticleThis report looks at lessons that can be learned from the Covid-19 pandemic around developing culturally relevant health information for South Asian communities. The authors conclude that there is an urgent need for culturally appropriate health information for South Asian communities to help reduce inequalities in health outcomes seen prior to the pandemic and exacerbated during it. They also highlight a lack of research into optimal ways of developing culturally relevant health information resources.
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Content ArticleIn this study in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, the authors examined the views of men from Uganda currently living in the UK of an educational board game used to promote engagement in maternal health. Men can play a significant role in reducing maternal morbidity and mortality in low-income countries and maternal health programmes are increasingly looking for innovative interventions to engage men to help improve health outcomes for pregnant women. The study found that men were receptive to the board game and reported that easy-to-understand visual aids and messages helped change their perspective. Participants suggested that the game needs to be adapted to the local context for use with men in rural Uganda.
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Content ArticleThis report from the National Maternity and Perinatal Audit assesses care inequalities using data from births between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2018 across England, Scotland and Wales. The National Maternity and Perinatal Audit (NMPA) is led by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) in partnership with the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
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Content ArticleThis manifesto was created by the Community Rehabilitation Alliance, a collective of 50 charities, trade unions and professional bodies coming together to call on all political parties to ensure there is equal access to high quality community rehabilitation services for all patients.
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Content ArticleThis research gives insights into the views of doctors who were previously practising in the UK but who are not currently doing so, in terms of their characteristics, motivations and likelihood to return to clinical practice in the UK. A survey of over 13,000 doctors was carried out between 21 January 2020 and 10 March 2020. This report was developed in partnership between the General Medical Council (GMC), Health Education England (HEE), The Department of Health (Northern Ireland), NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW).
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Content ArticleThis briefing paper by World Physiotherapy provides guidance to enable physiotherapists to offer safe and effective rehabilitation in people living with Long Covid.
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Content ArticleHot debriefs are interactive, structured team conversations that take place immediately or very shortly after a clinical case. They are designed to help the whole team learn from the experience, reflect on what went well, identify team strengths or difficulties and to consider ways to improve future performance. In this blog, the authors describe how a multidisciplinary focus group at Edinburgh Emergency Medicine, alongside staff from the Scottish Centre for Simulation and Clinical Human Factors (SCSCHF), developed “STOP5: STOP for 5 Minutes”, a new tool to facilitate hot debriefs.
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Content ArticleIn this blog, Dr Meghan Leaver, cofounder of PEP Health discusses factors that may prevent people living with obesity and overweight disease conditions from accessing high quality care. She argues that the current NHS focus on healthcare equality should extend to improving access and satisfaction amongst patients living with obesity. The author makes the case that the NHS is not weight inclusive, referring to a recent study in The Lancet that showed that people who identified as being overweight had significantly lower perceptions of the quality of care they were receiving compared with those who didn’t. She highlights that the issue disproportionately affects people from lower socio-economic backgrounds and calls for policy that empowers people to live healthier lifestyles.
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Content ArticleIn this article, Dr Ivan Ramos-Galvez, Consultant in Pain Medicine at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, discusses the physical and psychological issues that can arise following surgery for pelvic mesh implants. Dr Ramoz-Galvez highlights that around a third of reported complications are systemic symptoms such as runny nose, muscle pain, brain fog and lethargy, which may be the result of a chronic inflammatory state within the body. Their link to pelvic mesh implants is suggested by the fact that many women report that these symptoms resolve after their implant is removed. He also discusses the wide-ranging impact of pelvic mesh side effects for women who experience them, highlighting that the consequences are not only physical, but also psychological, social and financial. He calls for the medical profession to recognise this and develop treatments that cover all aspects of pelvic mesh complications.
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Content ArticleThe aim of this study in BMJ Open was to develop quality standards that define minimal requirements for safe medication processes in nursing homes. After identifying key topics for medication safety from a systematic search for similar guidelines, prior work and discussions with experts, the authors specified the essential requirements for each key topic. They then evaluated these requirements with a piloted, two-round Delphi study. The study developed 85 quality standards for safer and resident-oriented medication in Swiss nursing homes.
