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Content ArticleIn this guest blog for the Professional Records Standards Body (PRSB), Taffy Gatawa, Chief Information and Compliance Officer at everyLIFE Technologies, talks about the importance of ensuring that healthcare technologies comply with recognised standards. She discusses everyLIFE's experience on PRSB’s Standards Partnership Scheme, and their journey to implementing standards in their digital products. Taffy describes a process of learning and feedback, achieved through desktop research, clinical reviews and critical engagement with PRSB and customers.
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Content ArticlePatient safety alerts are issued to providers of NHS care to support them to take specific actions to keep patients safe. Although some content of past alerts is outdated, some of the actions from previously issued alerts continue to be relevant and remain valid beyond the timescales of the original alert. Over 140 alerts issued up to November 2019 (including ‘notices’ or ‘rapid response reports’) were recently clinically reviewed to identify which actions within those alerts remain valid and should be considered as ‘enduring standards’. The review covered alerts issued by the NHS England and NHS Improvement National Patient Safety Team and its predecessor organisation, the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA). The review also summarised other content from the alerts identified as general principles that can be applied more widely to inform wider ongoing safety improvement. The key elements from the review are highlighted. The pages do not set out any new actions for organisations to implement, but act as an aid to support providers to confirm that ‘enduring standards’ from previously completed alerts have been embedded locally, and that the general principles are considered within ongoing patient safety improvement.
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PRSB: 'About Me' standards
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Patient-centred care
The About Me standard helps people share information about what is most important to them with health and care professionals so that staff can provide better, more person-centred care whenever and wherever it is needed. About Me information may include things like how best to communicate with the person, put them at ease during treatment, their spiritual or religious beliefs, or what arrangements to make for family or pets if they are hospitalised. The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a standard outlining how About Me information should be documented and shared in health and care records. #CareAboutMe aims to raise widespread awareness of the About Me standard and the improvements it can make to the quality of care administered in health and care, as well as the positive impact it can have on people’s quality of life and health. PRSB wants to help every person share information about ‘what matters to me’ by using PRSB’s About Me standard. The goal is to help professionals provide better care and for people to experience lasting benefits to their health and wellbeing.e hospitalised. -
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Falsified Medicine Directive explained
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Medication
As global trade and the Internet keep on growing it has become much easier for people to pass goods off as genuine. Counterfeiting in medicine products is becoming more prevalent and countries are now adopting systems to protect the legitimate supply of products to protect the industry and importantly the patients. Systems are already operating in America and Germany and the EU has formulated a directive for all European countries to adopt a system that protects all European citizens. The False Medicine Directive (FMD) registration database tracks all medicines from the manufacturer through to the patient in a unified way across the whole of Europe. Across the EU those who manufacture, sell or dispense medicines must comply with new track and trace regulations. Find out more from the FMD plus website. -
Content ArticleMedication errors present a major public health burden and there is a need to optimise risk minimisation and prevention of medication errors through the existing regulatory framework. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) in collaboration with the EU regulatory network was mandated to develop regulatory guidance for medication errors, taking into account the recommendations of a stakeholder workshop held in London in 2013. This guidance is intended to support the implementation of the new legal provisions regarding the reporting, evaluation and prevention of medication errors and is intended mainly for the pharmaceutical industry and national competent authorities. Healthcare professionals (HCP) are expected to consult national clinical guidance on reducing the risk of medication errors.
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Content ArticleThis dashboard presents the results of a patient safety survey conducted by the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) and European Collaborative Action on Medication Errors and Traceability (ECAMET). The dashboard shows variations in different hospital-reported measures of patient safety across thirteen European countries. The questions in the survey focus on accreditation, training, electronic health records and recording, tracking and publishing of medication error data.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of these standards is to create and maintain the right environment, both organisational and physical, for the safe and effective practice of pharmacy. The standards apply to all pharmacies registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
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Content ArticleIn 2011, the government acknowledged a large treatment gap for people with mental health conditions and sought to establish ‘parity of esteem’ between mental and physical health services. From 2016, the Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) and NHS England made specific commitments to improve and expand NHS-funded mental health services. NHSE, working with the Department and other national health bodies, set up and led a national improvement programme to deliver these commitments. This report by the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee assesses progress made in delivering these commitments. The report acknowledges that NHS England has made progress in improving and expanding mental health services, but says this was "from a low base."
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Content ArticleThis document by the Restraint Reduction Network offers a framework to support care providers in reducing the use of restrictive practices. Restrictive practices are often a response to behaviours seen by care providers and wider society as ‘behaviours of concern’ or ‘challenging behaviour’. These behaviours can occasionally include wilful acts that have the potential to cause harm, but more often than not, these behaviours are symptoms of distress or frustration and a response to the environment or situation that a person finds themselves in. This document outlines the National Minimum Standards for the content of Restrictive Interventions Reduction Plans in mental health and learning disability settings.
