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Content ArticleSLIPPS (Shared LearnIng from Practice to improve Patient Safety) is a 3 year Erasmus+ funded Patient Safety education project. The project will: draw on the real experiences of health/social care students in practice placements utilise these experiences as the basis for a range of educational resources set up an international patient safety education network build an international open access virtual learning centre for international, multi-professional learning about patient safety Who is involved? 7 Higher Education institutions 5 Health and/or social care providers 5 European countries (UK, Finland, Spain, Italy and Norway)
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The group B Strep i-learn module
PatientSafetyLearning Team posted an article in Maternity
Group B Strep can be a complex topic, with some confusion about what exactly is the latest guidelines on testing, risk factors, recommended antibiotics, and the impact (if any) of GBS on homebirths, waterbirths, breastfeeding, and much more.This is why Group B Strep Support and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) have produced an evidence-based group B Strep i-learn module.The group B Strep i-learn module focuses on the current UK guidelines for preventing group B Strep infection in newborn babies and on signs of these infections in babies. It will refresh clinician knowledge of the national guidelines, and help you tackle the FAQs you get from expectant and new parents.Follow the link below to find out how to sign up. -
Content ArticleThe purpose of this guide from the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF) is to help people working in the health and social care ecosystem capture valuable practice and improvements made during their response to COVID-19. The aim is to contribute to organisational change at a policy, strategic and operational level. If left too late, there is a real danger that positive change is not documented and will be lost as the health system emerges from the pandemic.
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Content ArticleThe UKONS Telephone Triage Tool Kit outlines a clear symptom based, RAG rated ( RED, AMBER, GREEN) risk assessment process. It is used for telephone triage of patients who: have received or are receiving systemic anticancer therapy have received any other type of anticancer treatment, including radiotherapy and bone marrow graft/transplant may be suffering from disease-/treatment-related immunosuppression. The UKONS tool is evidence based and has been piloted and evaluated positively. It can be used by almost all, regardless of skill level or experience, and identifies patients at risk and advises action according to the level of risk.
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Improving cancer patient safety within the emergency department
Martin Hogan posted an article in Cancers
I'm Martin. In this blog I want to talk about my role as a Macmillan acute oncology clinical nurse specialist (CNS) and what our team has done to improve patient safety within the acute ward of our hospitals. Coming from a non-oncology background there was a lot to learn when I moved into acute oncology. My background was mainly acute cardiac and respiratory, but this allowed me to notice how powerful and time effective the presence of an acute oncology CNS could be in improving cancer patient safety within the emergency department. -
Content ArticleIn this blog, Steven Shorrock discusses Learning Teams, small group conversations and action, and makes a case for learning in the following ways: talk about everyday work start with what’s strong, not what’s wrong find ways to cross departmental boundaries and get multiple perspectives understand first what can be done by teams.
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Content ArticleA problem solving tool that captures everything you need on one piece of paper. Now that sounds pretty useful. In her latest blog, Sally Howard, Topic Lead for the hub, summarises 'A3', a problem solving tool that does exactly that. She draws on her own experience of using the tool to improve patient outcomes and provides both rich insight and practical examples to help others maximise it's potential.
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Content ArticleThe Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) has exclusive interviews from leading figures in healthcare on their website, these podcasts focus on a variety of topics within medicine and healthcare, covering everything from mental health and paediatric care to the medical workforce crisis and patient safety. In this episode, Kaji Sritharan talks to Dr Dominic King, Health Lead of DeepMind about the role of Artificial Intelligence and the development and introduction of Digital Technologies into the NHS.
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Content ArticleThe development of the Learning Disability Epilepsy Specialist Nurse Competency Framework was led by a working party of experienced Learning Disability (LD) Epilepsy Specialist Nurses (ESNs), from Focus in Epilepsy Learning Disability (FIELD), in association with the Epilepsy Nurses Association (ESNA). The document has been accredited by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), with the support of Epilepsy Action to ensure that the perspective of people with learning disabilities (PWLD) has been considered.
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Content ArticleThe safe management of a patient’s airway is one of the most challenging and complex tasks undertaken by a health professional - complications can result in devastating outcomes. How can anaesthetists improve safety, prevent complications, and be prepared to manage difficulties when they arise? How, in a crisis, can we ensure that human and technical resources are best utilised? This free course from Future Learn, endorsed by the Difficult Airway Society, will provide answers to these key questions and help you develop strategies to improve patient safety in your area of practice, discussing safe airway management in patient groups and multidisciplinary clinical settings.
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Content ArticleTeamworking is fundamental to the future of general practice. Practices are coming together at scale in primary care networks and new roles are being introduced, creating multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams. Making these teams function effectively is a complex task. This guide from The King's Fund brings together insights from their research, policy analysis and leadership practice. The need for collaboration and communication underpins much of the guide and it providex further reading and case studies to support each section. Some of the sections will be more relevant to you than others, but if you are a GP, practice manager or other professional working in primary care, or you are supporting practices, this guide will help you think how you will go about creating and sustaining effective teams within general practice.
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How to undertake intravenous infusion calculations
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Nursing
As part of the Nursing Standard's 'How to' series, Jane Brindley, a senior lecturer in adult nursing, provides a step-wise, practical approach to undertaking intravenous (IV) infusion calculations. The article also explores the evidence base behind medication errors in relation to calculations. -
Content ArticleHealth and social care faces a conflict between safe and appropriate staffing and the (government) directive to be cost efficient. In a time of clinical and support staff shortages, increasing demand for services and financial austerity, there is a need for a consistent approach to workforce analysis, benchmarking and planning across the health and social care to enable informed decision-making across finance, HR and nursing management to put the patient and their safety at the centre of all we do. 'Establishment Genie' is an online workforce planning, safe staffing and benchmarking tool. It has been co-developed and tested with more than 300 teams across acute, community, residential care, hospice and independent providers of care. This has been supported by input from NHSE, NHS Professionals, The Florence Nightingale Foundation, Safe Staffing Alliance, Royal College of Nursing, Health Education England, Queen’s Nursing Institute and academic nurse staffing experts.
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Content ArticleAction against Medical Accidents (AvMA) provides a list of patients/family members with lived experience of patient safety issues who can speak at events, help with training, or provide consultancy.
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Content ArticleAt the second annual Patient Safety Learning conference, held on 2 October 2019, we interviewed Dr Matt Inada-Kim. Matt is Acute Medicine Consultant at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Clinical Lead for Sepsis/Deterioration for Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative and National Clinical Advisor on Sepsis and Deterioration. Matt spoke at our conference on the topic of 'Patient safety as a purpose'. In this interview he talks about his personal motivation to ensure a patient safe future, why we need to integrate safety across all of health and social care and the importance of patient safety training.
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Content ArticleThis study by Charles Vincent and colleagues, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood, looked at the nature and causes of reported patient safety incidents relating to care in the community for children dependent on long-term ventilation with the further aim of improving safety. Common problems in the delivery of care included issues with faulty equipment and the availability of equipment, and concerns around staff competency. There was a clearly stated harm to the child in 89 incidents (40%). Contributory factors included staff shortages, out of hours care, and issues with packaging and instructions for equipment. This study has identified a range of problems relating to long-term ventilation in the community, some of which raise serious safety concerns. The provision of services to support children on long-term ventilation and their families needs to improve. Priorities include training of staff, maintenance and availability of equipment, support for families and coordination of care.
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Content ArticleMedical errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S. Clearly medical errors are an epidemic that needs to be contained. Despite these numbers, patient safety and medical errors remain an issue for physicians and other clinicians. This book bridges the issues related to patient safety by providing clinically relevant, vignette-based description of the areas where most problems occur. Each vignette highlights a particular issue such as communication, human factors, electronic health records, and provides tools and strategies for improving quality in these areas and creating a safer environment for patients.
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Content ArticleAnnie's story is an example of how healthcare organisations seeking high reliability embrace a just culture in all they do. This includes a system's approach to analysing near misses and harm events – looking to analyse events without the knee-jerk blame and shame approach of old.
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Content ArticleThe South Thames Paediatric Network's aim is to enable children within the South Thames region (South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex) to have access to high-quality specialist paediatric care in the place most suitable to their needs, at the appropriate time with a focus on surgery in children, critical care, long term ventilation and gastroenterology.
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Consent: Maternity
Claire Cox posted an article in Consent issues
This area of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists website provides guidance for healthcare professionals on obtaining consent from women within obstetrics and gynaecology services. It provides easy access to all procedure-specific consent documentation and gives advice on how best to support women’s decision-making about their care.- Posted
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RCOG: Video briefing on human factors and situational awareness
Claire Cox posted an article in Maternity
Each baby counts is the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist's national quality improvement programme to reduce the number of babies who die or are left severely disabled as a result of incidents occurring during term labour. Watch the Each baby counts human factors video for information on how to address issues within your unit. -
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Connor Sparrowhawk: The tale of laughing boy (2015)
Claire Cox posted an article in Patient stories
Connor Sparrowhawk died in July 2013 while he was in the care of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. An independent report concluded that Connor’s death was preventable and that there were significant failings in his care and treatment. This moving film describes what Connor was like by his friends and family and highlights the failings that caused the avoidable death of Connor. -
Content ArticleImperial College Hospital NHS Trust have launched their new falls safety improvement video to highlight the importance of safe mobility in hospital. Watch the video and join the conversation on Twitter.
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Put an end to cannula site infections!
Claire Cox posted an article in Other hospital-based clinical areas
This presentation written by Dr Gordon Caldwell, a Consultant Physician at Lorn and Islands Hospital, Oban, Argyll, Scotland, highlights the importance of surveillance and actions to be taken around prevention of infection of cannlula sites. -
Content ArticleChances are, you’ve heard of an electronic health record, or EHR. Over the past 10 years, the vast majority of healthcare providers in the United States have implemented this technology to use in caring for their patients. EHRs have benefited us in many ways and hold tremendous promise. Given their widespread use, this technology now plays a significant role in the routine delivery of health care. Less understood outside the healthcare profession, however, is that EHRs have introduced new kinds of risks to the safety and quality of care, due to serious challenges with EHR usability, or the effectiveness and efficiency of using the technology. These well documented issues can lead to clinician burnout and errors that directly impact patient safety. In response, the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare teamed up with the American Medical Association to show what they mean by sharing rare videos of real and simulated EHR usability challenges. They believe improving EHR design, development, and implementation to eliminate known patient safety risks and make them easier to use is the responsibility of healthcare providers, EHR vendors, policymakers, and patients, all working together.
