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PRSB: Transfer of care toolkit
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Transfers of care
High volumes of patients are transferred every day between health and care settings. Whilst efforts have have been made over several years to improve this process through the implementation of standards and the sharing of digital information, there is more to be done. Whole system improvements are required and significant further progress can be made to improve the quality and consistency of data shared between organisations. The Professional Standards Record Body (PRSB) has published a number of standards that support the transfer of care of patients between settings. This toolkit concentrates on the PRSB eDischarge Summary Standard, which specifies the data to be shared between secondary and primary care to support the discharge of a patient from hospitals across the UK. This toolkit does not propose a one-size-fits-all approach and recognises that health and care services are organised in different ways across the UK. -
EventThe RRN is currently developing version two of the RRN Training Standards. Over several months they have been hosting a number of events to hear from colleagues across sectors and nations to help inform the development of version 2 of the Standards. The next webinar will provide an update on progress to version 2 of the RRN Training Standards. Hosted by RRN Trustee Salli Midgley and RRN Training Standards authors Sarah Leitch and Dave Atkinson, the webinar will provide an update on progress and provide opportunity for discussion around some key issues. Colleagues from the health, social care and education sectors, and from across the UK and Ireland, are welcome. We warmly welcome people with lived experience. The Restraint Reduction Network is a movement of people who want to eliminate the use of unnecessary restrictive practices, protect human rights and make a positive difference in people's lives. You can join the movement for free today at: https://restraintreductionnetwork.org/become-a-member/ Register
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Content ArticleThis increased implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare could be either great or terrible news for the safety of services, depending on how organisations develop and implement it. This blog, written by the Professional Record Standards Body in partnership with the user experience company HD Labs, looks at the safety risks associated with using AI in health and care and outlines how standards can help keep AI safe.
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The original National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) were published in 2015. In 2023 the standards were revised (NatSSIPs 2) with the Centre for Perioperative Care (CPOC), with a focus on bolstering of the organisational standards (people, processes and performance) in addition to the sequential steps that teams follow. The standards are intended to share the learning and best practice to support multidisciplinary teams and organisations to deliver safer care. Patient Safety Learning spoke to Annie Hunningher and Claire Morgan about the changes to the revised NatSSIPs 2, how NatSSIPs 2 is being implemented and what more needs to be done to promote and engage leadership for action. -
Content ArticleThe Global Strategy for Infection Prevention and Control (GSIPC) vision is that by 2030 everyone accessing and providing healthcare is safe from associated infections. The GPIPC outlines eight strategic directions, providing the guiding framework for country action plans. A Guide to Implementation is being developed to support countries in the development of their national action plans towards the 'vision of 2030'.
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5 steps to safer surgery audit tool
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Surgery
Shared with the hub, this audit tool is designed to assess theatre compliance with the five-steps to safer surgery, which includes the World Health Organisation (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist. The checks included in the five steps are designed to reduce the number of errors and complications resulting from surgical procedures by improving team communication and by verifying and checking essential care interventions. -
Content ArticleExample of two action cards used for incorrect swab count and incorrect instrument count.
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Content ArticleFollowing the release of the Australian National Safety and Quality Digital Mental Health (NSQDMH) Standards in November 2020, the objective of this study, published in Australas Psychiatry, was to ensure effective implementation of the Standards. This included the development of an accreditation scheme to allow digital mental health services to be formally assessed against the Standards and provide service users with an assurance of safe and high-quality services. Conclusion: The NSQDMH Standards accreditation scheme provides an assurance of safety and quality for digital mental health service users.
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Five steps to safer surgery audit tool
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Surgery
This audit tool developed by Mark Rigby, Head of Theatre Services at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is designed to assess theatre compliance with the five steps to safer surgery, which includes the World Health Organization (WHO) Surgical Safety Checklist. The checks included in the five steps are designed to reduce the number of errors and complications resulting from surgical procedures by improving team communication and by verifying and checking essential care interventions. The tool features a monthly observation audit and documentation audit and presents recorded data in a results tab which tracks progress by month, providing more timely data locally than the clinical scorecard. -
Content ArticleThe NHS Health Check is a free check-up of your overall health. It can tell you whether you're at higher risk of getting certain health problems, such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease and stroke. Local authority commissioners have a statutory responsibility for delivering the NHS Health check to the eligible population within their area. All the information collected through NHS Health Checks is sent through to the relevant GP practice, and results in either no action required, lifestyle and behaviour advice and information to reduce CVD risk, or clinical intervention if needed. The Professional Records Standards Body (PRSC) is running a survey to gain views form healthcare professionals and IT system suppliers on the information recorded through NHS Health Checks. The results of the survey will inform the development of an information standard that will ensure that the information collected is recorded and communicated in a standardised format, using recognised clinical coding wherever possible. The government is also undertaking the development of a digital version of the NHS Health Check as a delivery option for the future, where a person can choose to complete the health check questions online and carry out biometric tests at home, before the results are written back to the GP record–therefore some questions in the survey may reflect this new development by way of future proofing the information standard once a digital option is available.
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Content ArticleThe Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is developing a professional framework for nursing which will encompass the whole nursing workforce, from the nursing support worker through to the consultant nurse. Beyond the point of registration, the work of the registered nurse increases in its complexity, and as part of this framework, the RCN has developed definitions of the levels of nursing practice beyond registration. This webpage provides definitions and standards for enhanced, advanced and consultant levels of nursing. These definitions will help those who aspire to practice at these levels, as well as giving greater clarity to employers and higher education institutions. They can be applied across all fields of nursing and in all settings.
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Psychotropic medicines are medications that act on the brain. They are used for mental health conditions but are sometimes also given to people because their behaviour is seen as challenging, such as people with learning disabilities or cognitive impairment. This standard produced by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare provides guidance to clinicians, healthcare services, patients, families and carers on the safe and appropriate use of psychotropic medicines. It contains: Eight quality statements describing safe and appropriate care. A set of indicators to support monitoring and quality improvement. -
Content ArticleIn March 2024, the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) convened a roundtable discussion entitled ‘Accountability, fear and public safety’ to explore some of the recent NHS safety culture initiatives in England and their relationship with professional health regulation. In this blog, Anna van der Gaag, Visiting Professor in Ethics & Regulation at the University of Surrey, reflects on this discussion and how to bring the best of safety culture initiatives and the best of regulatory processes together to do more for patient safety.
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NHS Constitution: 10 year review (consultation closes on 25 June 2024)
Mark Hughes posted an article in NHS England
The NHS Constitution sets out the principles, values, rights and pledges underpinning the NHS as a comprehensive health service, free at the point of use for all who need it. The Department of Health and Social Care is seeking views on how best to change the NHS Constitution, as part of the process of completing its 10 year review. They are requesting feedback from patients, carers, NHS staff and the public on the proposals set out in this consultation document. This consultation closes at 11.59pm on 25 June 2024. -
News ArticleThe Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) has published updated professional standards to support pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and pharmacy teams in responding to patient safety incidents. Created in collaboration with the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) and the Pharmacy Forum Northern Ireland (PFNI), the Patient safety professional standards: responding to patient safety incidents are designed to support pharmacy professionals to meet regulatory standards. The standards, published on 24 April 2024, reflect new legislation and updated guidance from the General Pharmaceutical Council and NHS England, replacing the previous standards published in 2016. They also provide a framework for reflecting, reporting and recording incidents, and sharing learning, taking action and reviewing and evaluating incidents as part of a patient safety culture. Read full story Source: The Pharmaceutical Journal, 24 April 2024
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Content ArticleThese patient safety professional standards aim to support pharmacists when responding to patient safety incidents. They describe good practice and provide a broad framework for continually improving services, shaping future services and roles and delivering high-quality care across all settings and sectors. They have been developed by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK and Pharmacy Forum NI, with the support of an expert steering group and public consultation. Pharmacists, pharmacist prescribers, pharmacy technicians and the wider pharmacy team across the United Kingdom will find these standards useful. They may also be of interest to the public, to people who use pharmacy and healthcare services, other healthcare professionals working with pharmacy teams, regulators and commissioners of pharmacy services.
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Content ArticleMaking care safer for all - a manifesto for change 2024 outlines the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) recommendations to government to help tackle some of the big challenges within health and social care. It also outlines what professional regulation is doing to make care safer and calls for government to support regulators to allow them to do more to help. Key recommendations include for government to: Prioritise work to modernise the powers of the healthcare professionals regulators Ensure that public inquiries and reviews result in lessons learned and acted upon Develop a regulatory strategy to support delivery of the NHS Long-Term Workforce Plan and manage risks to safety and public confidence Take steps to enhance professional development and accountability of senior managers in the NHS Support robust action within health and care to address discrimination in the workplace.
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Content ArticlePatient Safety Learning has designed a set of unique Patient Safety Standards and support tools that can help organisations not only establish clearly defined safety aims and goals, but also demonstrate their achievement. Our 'Organisational Snapshot' is an easily implemented diagnostic focused on our patient safety Foundations and Aims and cross-referenced to our full Standards. Using a mix of one-on-one interviews and workshops with a small number of selected individuals, our 'Snapshot' can quickly identify: Where your strengths and weaknesses are on patient safety. Where your focus should be on patient safety improvement. How to create or update a strategic plan and goals reflecting the diagnostic. If you need or want to undertake a more detailed assessment against our Standards.
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Content ArticleThis study examines the variability in how different anaesthesia providers approach patient care, to provide insight into the source and necessity of variations in practice, the implications of different individual preferences and the subsequent consequences on approaches to safety that emphasise standardisation. The authors argue that the differences in how anaesthesia providers approach their work call into question whether ‘standardisation’ is always the best approach to improve safety in anaesthesia. They state that this work reinforces the idea that it is the humans in the system, with their flexibility and expertise, who are the primary source of everyday safety.
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Content ArticleIn December 2024, the General Medical Council (GMC) will start regulating physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs). The GMC have developed proposed rules, standards and guidance setting out how they will regulate these professions. They have also developed draft principles that will inform the content of decision-making guidance that will apply to doctors as well as to PAs and AAs from December 2024. This consultation is about those rules, standards and guidance and those principles. It is not about who should regulate PAs and AAs. This consultation asks for your comments on the General Medical Council's proposed rules, standards and guidance that set out how they will regulate anaesthesia associates (AAs) and physician associates (PAs). The consultation is open from 26 March to 11.59pm on 20 May 2024.
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Standards watchdog launches review of accountability in public bodies
Patient Safety Learning posted a news article in News
Government’s standards watchdog has launched a review into accountability in public bodies, warning that problems are too often not dealt with quickly and effectively. Over the next few months, the Committee on Standards in Public Life will look at “where public bodies should focus their attention to maximise the likelihood of problems being uncovered and addressed before issues escalate and lives are damaged”. In a letter to the prime minister about the review, CSPL chair Doug Chalmers said the committee had been “struck by how, when failures occur within public institutions, it repeatedly seems to be the case that indicators of emerging issues were present, but missed, with the result that the window to respond appropriately, before problems escalate, has often also been missed”. In its announcement of the review, CSPL said it had seen “several examples of major failures within public institutions” in recent years where “opportunities were missed to address issues before they escalated”. “We are asking, when things go wrong in public bodies, why does it take so long for problems to be recognised and the leadership to respond appropriately and, most importantly, what needs to change?” Rather than reinvestigating previous incidents, the committee will look at how to encourage more effective accountability within public bodies “so that problems are addressed before catastrophic failure”, Chalmers said. As part of the review, CSPL has opened a consultation today inviting members of the public to submit evidence on why public bodies might fail to act quickly when problems arise, along with suggestions on how to tackle problems better and examples of good practice. The consultation closes on 14 June. Read full story Source: Civil Service World, 25 March 2024 -
Content ArticleThese principles underpin how NHS services must approach concerns that are raised by staff, students and volunteers about health services.
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Content ArticleThe Government is in the process of reforming the way that health and care professionals are regulated. It is planning to change the legislation for 9 out of the 10 healthcare professional regulators that the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) oversees, giving them a range of new powers and allowing them to operate in a very different way. The changes the Government intends to roll out will give regulators greater freedom to decide how they operate, including introducing the flexibility to set and amend their own rules. There will also be changes to regulators’ powers and governance arrangements. The changes will also create an entirely new process for handling fitness to practise (the process by which concerns about healthcare professionals are dealt with). The PSA support the reforms to healthcare professional regulation but have also identified certain risks that may arise from the new ways of working. PSA has developed guidance that they are now consulting on. The presentation slides attached are from a recent PSA roundtable and give further information on the changes, PSA guidance and the consultation. PSA are seeking views from everybody with an interest in healthcare professional regulation, including patients, the public, registrants, regulators, professional bodies and employers. The consultation is open until 5.00 pm on Monday 15 April 2024.
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Content ArticleThe National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) 2 are intended to help share learning and best practice to support multidisciplinary teams and organisations to deliver safer care. This two-page summary document, published by the Centre for Perioperative Care, provides a concise overview of NatSSIPs for anyone who does interventional procedures and the teams who support them.
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Content ArticleAs the USA's largest health insurer, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established quality standards, metrics, and programmes to improve healthcare not just for the 170 million individuals supported by its programmes, but for all Americans. The 2024 National Impact Assessment of CMS Quality Measures Report (Impact Assessment Report) assesses the quality and efficiency impact of measures endorsed by the consensus-based entity and used by CMS.
