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Content ArticleThis poster outlines a simple point of care risk assessment that can be carried out by healthcare professionals before each interaction with a patient.
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Content ArticleThis NHS England podcast examines how the application of system-based approaches to learning from patient safety incidents will be vital to the success of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). Guests Darren Thorne from the consultancy Facere Melius, Jane Carthey, a Human Factors and Patient Safety Consultant and Laura Pickup from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) discuss NHS England's learning response toolkit.
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Content ArticleThis webpage has been put together by The Patients Association to provide resources for patients and members of the public who want to start a local campaign about a specific issue related to health and social care. It includes: advice on how to campaign. information on who you should contact. template letters to MPs and other officials.
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Content ArticleThe coronavirus pandemic had an unparalleled impact on NHS services and on the people who use them. In August 2022, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) carried out research to better understand what impact the pandemic had on public attitudes towards complaining about the NHS. They also asked respondents about: their attitudes to complaining about the NHS currently and during the pandemic how satisfied they were with the NHS organisations they used or had contact with during the pandemic. The results have now been published.
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Content ArticleThis guide by the charity Menopause Support offers advice for women who may be experiencing menopause symptoms about how to approach an appointment with their GP. It covers preparing for the appointment with research, making a note of your symptoms, how to ask questions, taking a friend or family member to support you, and further support you can request during the consultation.
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Pausitivity - Know your menopause poster
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Women's health
This simple poster highlights the main symptoms of the menopause including hot flushes. headaches, mood swings, palpitations and tiredness. It encourages women to recognise the symptoms and seek help from their GP. -
Content ArticlePeople with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or ME, have long felt disregarded by some medical professionals who believed their pain and exhaustion to be a psychological disorder. More recently, patient activism, combined with new data on the underlying biology of the illness, has resulted in changes in treatment guidelines and a renewed focus on ME as a biologically grounded post-viral disease. This article in the Irish Times highlights patients' experiences and the challenges they face.
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Content ArticleTransitions of care between hospital departments are necessary, but they may disrupt care coordination, such as discharge planning. Family carers often serve as liaisons between the patient and healthcare professionals, but they frequently experience exclusion from care planning during intrahospital transfers (IHTs). This has the potential to decrease their awareness of patients’ clinical status, postdischarge needs and carer preparation. This study aimed to explore family carers’ perceptions about IHTs, patient and carer ratings of patient discharge readiness and carer self-perception of preparation to engage in at home care.
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Content ArticleAnaemia is associated with adverse outcomes of surgery. The blood loss of surgery or trauma can cause or worsen anaemia. People who have anaemia have a worse result from their operation including poorer wound healing, slower mobilisation and an increased risk of death. The Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC) perioperative anaemia guideline has been developed using a whole pathway approach. It contains recommendations for patients of all ages undergoing surgery and for healthcare professionals in both emergency and elective surgical settings and across specialties. The aim of this guideline is to ensure that the patient is at the centre of the whole process, and that everyone involved in their care carries out their individual responsibilities to minimise the risk from anaemia.
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Content ArticlePaul McGinness, chief executive, Lenus Health, presents new evidence showing how a digital service model can reduce respiratory-related hospital admissions and enable care at home.
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Content ArticleThis qualitative study in BMC Medicine aimed to improve understanding of the reality of making and sustaining improvements in complex healthcare systems. It focused on understanding the implications of complexity theory, introducing a framework known as Successful Healthcare Improvement From Translating Evidence in complex systems (SHIFT-Evidence). This approach is accompanied by a series of ‘simple rules’ that aim to make complexity navigable (whilst recognising that it will never be simple), providing actionable guidance to both practice and research. The authors concluded that the SHIFT-Evidence framework provides a tool to guide practice and research. The ‘simple rules’ have potential to provide a common platform for academics, practitioners, patients and policymakers to collaborate when intervening to achieve improvements in healthcare.
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Content ArticleThis mixed methods study in the BMJ Open aimed to investigate possible barriers and facilitators for venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk assessment in medical patients and evaluate the impact of local and national initiatives. The authors identified the following barriers to risk assessment: involvement of multiple staff in individual admissions interruptions lack of policy awareness time pressure complexity of tools They concluded that national financial sanctions appear effective in implementing guidance, where other local measures have failed.
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Three years since we launched the hub, our award-winning platform to share learning for patient safety, we have seen it grow in members, content and impact. To date, the hub has received over 565,000 visits and had over 1 million page views. It now has over 3,400 members from 80 countries working in over 1,000 different organisations, and offers 7,500 knowledge resources, viewed by people from 221 countries. We continue to highlight serious patient safety issues, celebrate patient safety achievements, provide ‘how to’ resources on good practice and offer a safe space for staff and patients to share their experiences and discuss challenges. In this blog, we would like to celebrate just some of the work we are especially proud of and highlight where we’ve been making the case for change and the many ways the hub is making an impact. -
Content Article“Can I use a teaspoon to measure my cough syrup?” “Is it ok to crush my pills?” “Are generic and brand name drugs really the same?” The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) fellow and emergency room nurse, Michelle Bell, and medication safety officer for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sharon Camperchioli, answer patient questions about medication.
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Content ArticleSonia Sparkles is a senior manager in healthcare who is using her artistic skills to improve the way healthcare services communicate with patients. Her goal is to empower patients to feel at ease in healthcare settings and able to fully engage in their care. In this blog, Sonia describes how her own experience of being in hospital helped her see healthcare from a patient's perspective. While an inpatient, she felt disempowered, frightened and unable to ask the questions she wanted to. Having reviewed some NHS patient literature, Sonia realised that there was a need to find a way to communicate clearly with patients and invite them to share their concerns with healthcare staff. She produced a series of 23 posters as a starting point to get people thinking about how to communicate with patients in a simple, visual and empowering way.
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EventuntilWhen things go wrong - doctors in the dock series provides a unique opportunity to hear real patients discuss their experience of medical errors. Well-known witnesses of clinical errors will talk about their first-hand experiences, what happened, how they and their family had to deal with them, and how they have dealt with the aftermath in the most constructive way possible. Gain more experience and insight about the best way to deal with clinical errors as professionals, and from a patient perspective, and convert them into an opportunity for improvement for all involved, even leading to very successful careers. Register
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EventuntilAre you a patient who has been waiting to receive a diagnosis or test results during the last six months? This includes, but is not limited to, CT scans, MRI scans, and endoscopy and dermatology procedures. Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected your service? Would you like to help to improve the patient experience of waiting for a diagnosis? The Patients Association is holding an online Zoom patient group discussion on this topic on Tuesday 27th October, 2.00-4.00pm, and we are seeking patients to take part. An £80 incentive payment will be offered in Amazon vouchers and places are limited. Participants will be chosen on the basis of suitability to ensure the group is representative of a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. Please fill in the registration form https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/CRNMC2T if you are interested.
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EventDr Donna Prosser, Chief Clinical Officer at the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, will be joined by a multidisciplinary group of patient advocacy experts and clinicians to understand the various meanings of the term 'patient advocacy' and to evaluate how an empowered patient can improve healthcare delivery, experience, and outcomes for all involved. The group will discuss the history and current state of patient advocacy, and will propose recommendations regarding the extent to which various healthcare disciplines and patients and their families can improve patient advocacy. Register
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ICUsteps Zoom Q&A webinar
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Deteriorating Patient Summit
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Recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient and ensuring best practice in the use of NEWS2. hub members can receive a 10% discount with code hcuk10psl. Further information and registration -
Content ArticleShrop Community Health have produced this video to help patients prevent pressure ulcers by learning about the 5 key messages: SSKIN: Surface Skin Keep moving Incontinence and increased moisture Nutrition and hydration
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Pressure Ulcer Path: prevent and treat step by step
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Pressure ulcers
Research has shown that frontline staff understand the dangers of pressure sores but experience significant challenges in their attempts to prevent them. The research, undertaken by NHS Midlands and East and downloadable below, showed that staff feel they do not have the time to treat patients and need improved communication between the patients, their carers and the homes from which they might have come. In response to this, NHS Midlands and East has created the Pressure Ulcer Path, a tool to support staff in preventing pressure ulcers and treating them, alongside a number of useful resources. -
Content ArticleIn this video, Barts Health NHS Trust explain what measures frontline medical staff can take to help avoid the risk of pressure ulcers.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of the US Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals is to improve patient safety. The goals focus on problems in healthcare safety in the USA and how to solve them. They include identifying patients correctly, improving staff communication, use medicine safely, use alarms safely, prevent infection, identify patient safety risks and prevent mistakes in surgery.
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Content ArticleOn 23 September, Improvement Cymru, the all-Wales Improvement service for NHS Wales, hosted an online session with colleagues from Holland to talk about patient flow in hospital.
