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Content ArticleDave Noakes talks about his cancer journey, the feelings he went through and the impact it has had on his life in this blog for Movember.
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Content ArticleAsk anyone with tattoos and they’ll tell you every bit of body art means something. But it’s fair to say Graeme Holdsworth’s short script of ink means more than most. The single word, Anicca - Sanskrit for ‘impermanence’ - hides beneath the watchband on his left wrist. “I look at it whenever I need reminding that what’s happening now won’t be happening in a minute’s time.” For the retired architect and project manager who spent most of his life planning the future of multi-million dollar developments, a one-word reminder to live in the moment seems an odd choice. But to someone who was a habitual high achiever, it’s an important reality check. In this blog for Movember, Graeme talks about living with depression.
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Content ArticleActive surveillance (AS) is an option in the management of men with low-stage, low-risk prostate cancer. These patients, who often require prolonged follow-up, can put a strain on outpatient resources. Nurses are ideally placed to develop advanced roles to help meet this increased demand—a model Martin et al. have utilised since 2014. The authors set about to comprehensively evaluate their nurse-led AS (NLAS) programme. The study found that nurse-led active surveillance is safe and effective. Patients and stakeholders alike held positive views of the programme.
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Samaritans: Real people, real stories
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Men's health
In a recent survey from the Samaritans, men gave the reasons why they were struggling to cope: 42% of men said that pandemic restrictions have had a negative impact on their mental health. 40% of men said that talking to others helped with concerns and worries they had during the pandemic. We understand the power of human connection and how talking can help when you’re finding life tough. The Samaritans have collated real stories from men who have been through tough times, encouraging other men to seek help. -
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Prostate Cancer UK: Best practice pathway
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Men's health
Developed to support healthcare professionals at the front line of prostate cancer diagnosis and care, Prostate Cancer UK's Best Practice Pathway uses easy to follow flowcharts to guide healthcare professionals deliver best practice diagnosis, treatment and support. It sets out how to achieve an early diagnosis in men at higher than average risk of the disease. It also supports use of the most up-to-date, cutting-edge research-led innovations - so that healthcare professionals are equipped and supported to provide the very latest evidence-based best practice to their patients. -
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Prostate Cancer UK: risk checker
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Men's health
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, but most men with early prostate cancer don’t have symptoms. So what should you do? Click the link below and and answer three quick questions to find out. -
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WHO: What you need to know before and after surgery
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
If you or your child is undergoing a surgical procedure, be sure to communicate the following to your healthcare provider. Your active participation in health care is important for your safety. This information from the World Health Organization (WHO) will help your discussion with your care-provider. Be a well-informed partner in your own care. -
Content ArticleEmpower yourself with information and tools to help you ask good questions, connect with the right people, and learn as much as you can to keep you or a family member safe while receiving healthcare. The Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) have created a 'Questions Are the Answer' toolkit to help you effectively prepare for making decisions about medical treatment options by asking the right questions of your healthcare team. It considers topics for before, during, and after appointments, using past, present, and future medicines, medical tests, and surgeries.
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Content ArticleIn this short analysis from the Health Foundation, data from the GP patient survey, an annual independent survey run by Ipsos MORI on behalf of NHS England, was used to explore who gets good access to general practice, unpicking how patient satisfaction with the service they receive varies by deprivation, age and ethnicity. Note: The 2020 GP patient survey data were mostly collected before the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore this analysis doesn’t reflect patient experiences or service changes during the pandemic.
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Content ArticleEvery organisation has a unique culture. There is a widely held view that a positive organisational culture is related to positive patient outcomes. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses statement, Braithwaite et al. systematically reviewed and synthesised the evidence on the extent to which organisational and workplace cultures are associated with patient outcomes.
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Content ArticleThe Patient Information Forum ran a survey on covid choices. It asked how people are balancing the need to have new or ongoing health conditions treated and managed versus the risks of contracting COVID-19. The aim of the survey was to identify the factors important to patients’ decision-making. This will help charities and the NHS produce the information patients need to make crucial decisions about health and well-being.
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Content ArticleWith the emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting many patients’ access to GP services, the Patients Association investigated what patients felt about their GP’s premises, and whether they would be confident to return to them.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Movement's Dr Donna Prosser is joined by Dr Steven Deeks, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and Dr Jake Suett, Staff Grade Anaesthetist and Intensive Care Doctor, UUK, to discuss the long term implications of COVID-19 from clinical and personal perspectives. Dr Deeks shares the research around long COVID-19 symptoms and Dr Suett provides a personal anecdote of his experience with symptoms that have lasted months. Dr. Suett shares information about the COVID symptom study, which consists of an international mobile app to track COVID-19 symptoms over time.
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Content ArticleThe Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) outlines the process in Canada if you have a question or a concern about the healthcare services you have received.
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Content ArticleIn September, Patient Safety Learning worked with Gill Phillips, Director of Nutshell Communications Ltd, to host an online workshop with staff and patients on the subject of staff safety, the theme of this year's World Patient Safety Day. Known as Whose Shoes?®, the workshop was an an intimate, highly participative event, giving participants the chance to talk openly about their personal experiences around key issues in staff safety and how they impact patient safety.
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Content ArticlePatients collectively made Long Covid – and cognate term ‘long-haul Covid’ – in the first months of the pandemic. Patients, many with initially ‘mild’ illness, used various kinds of evidence and advocacy to demonstrate a longer, more complex course of illness than laid out in initial reports from Wuhan. Long Covid has a strong claim to be the first illness created through patients finding one another on social media: it moved from patients, through various media, to formal clinical and policy channels in just a few months. This initial mapping of Long Covid – by two patients with this illness – focuses on actors in the UK and USA and demonstrates how patients marshalled epistemic authority. Patient knowledge needs to be incorporated into how COVID-19 is conceptualised, researched, and treated.
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Content ArticleThis report from the Samaritans finds that there is no consistently effective support available to people who self-harm. The research identified four key support needs for people who self-harm, which are seen as essential to providing effective care: distraction from immediate self-harm urges emotional relief in times of stress developing alternative coping strategies addressing the underlying reasons for self-harm.
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Content ArticleParents know better than anyone if their child is not behaving as they usually do or seem different in some way. Studies have shown that caregivers are often the first people to spot changes in the health of their child, even when in a clinical environment. You should feel able to raise any concerns if you think something is ‘just not right’ with your child. Great Ormond Street Hospital has produced guidance on what to look out for and how to raise a concern if you are worried about your child when in hospital.
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Content ArticleIn this blog for the Guardian, a well respected surgeon tells of the time they were admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital where they worked following a suicide attempt. The surgeon explains how depression is a lot more common in medicine than realised but how it is still stigmatised, even within the medical profession. Many medical staff often display signs of depression differently to others and keep working right up until they break; work brings comfort from the feelings of hopelessness and worthlessness. Very few have the opportunity to attend counselling, since this would require taking time off work. "I would be smiling and laughing on the outside, but on the inside was a continuous mantra of self-loathing that kept getting louder. I pushed myself harder, took extra shifts, tried to put my head down and just get through it. One day, I had had enough. The pain had become physical as well as mental, and the idea of having to live any longer was unbearable."
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning’s response to the announcement by the NHS on the 7 October 2020 of a new five-part package of measures to boost support for Long Covid patients.
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Centre for Perioperative Care: What is perioperative care?
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
Perioperative care is the Integrated care across the full patient pathway before, during and after surgery. Perioperative care, also referred to as perioperative medicine, is the practice of patient-centered, multidisciplinary, and integrated medical care of patients from the moment of contemplation of surgery until full recovery. The Centre for Perioperative Care has produced a video on what good perioperative care looks like and a number or resources and advice on the perioperative journey. -
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First, Do No Harm — But in a Pandemic, How? (25 September 2020)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Blogs
As hospitals in the US braced for the onslaught of coronavirus cases this past spring, they radically restructured and reorganised to help ease the burden on staff and minimise transmission within the hospital. Along with ceasing elective surgeries and transforming floors to allow for care of intubated patients, visitors were forbidden from entering hospitals with few exceptions. Now, several months removed from the peak of the pandemic, a limited number of visitors are allowed at a time. While limiting visitors allows some additional element of physical distancing, how much does a ban actually help our patients, and how much does it hurt them — especially mothers-to-be in the vulnerable perinatal period? Is it possible to limit visitor-spread virus while allowing our patients the dignity and the peace of companionship during one of the most stressful periods of their lives? In this blog, Byrne and Goldfarb look at the consequences of limiting visitors during the pandemic and considers the negative effect this may have on the health of the patient. -
Content ArticleThe government’s new 'Hands. Face. Space; campaign urges you to continue to wash your hands, cover your face and make space to control infection rates. By following these simple steps, illustrated in this video, you could make a significant difference in reducing the transmission of coronavirus and help protect yourself and your family, friends and colleagues from the virus.
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NHS: How to register with a GP practice
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in GP and primary care
You have the legal right to choose a GP practice that best suits your needs. Here are some tips on how to register with a GP practice. -
Content ArticleLeaflets and a poster aimed at providing information on influenza (flu) and vaccination.
