All Patient safety articles – Page 137
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2016: Dementia Care
The winner came up with a novel solution to reduce the risk of older people developing delirium in hospitals
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2016: Education and Training in Patient Safety
The winners developed an evidence-based, patient-led mobile app for patients to manage their own illness and their own risk
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2016: Improving Safety in Medicines Management
The winner worked on a mission enuring patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are recognised before they arrive in hospital
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2016: Improving Safety in Primary Care
Improving safety in primary carePatient Safety Awards 2016, Improving Safety in Primary Care winner: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust Winner: Pennine Acute Hospitals Trust When GPs at one of 36 practices in North Manchester have a patient in a health or social care crisis they can call ...
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2016: Managing Long Term Conditions
Managing long term conditionsPatient Safety Awards 2016, Managing Long Term Conditions winner: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust Winner: South Tees Hospitals Foundation Trust The winner in this category has established what they believe to be a UK first: a rapid access, community-based, self referral service for ...
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2016: Patient Safety in Care of Older People
Patient safety in care of older peoplePatient Safety Awards 2016, Patient Safety in Care of Older People winner: North East London Foundation Trust Ridouts logo Sponsored by Ridouts Winner: North East London Foundation Trust The winning quality improvement project focused on enhancing ...
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HSJ KnowledgePatient Safety Awards 2016: Preventing avoidable harm
Preventing avoidable harmPatient Safety Awards 2016, Preventing avoidable harm winner: Lancashire County Council Ahsn network Sponsored by The AHSN Network Winner: Lancashire County Council Falls prevention is a significant public health concern. This project, funded by Lancashire CC and developed by East Lancashire ...
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NewsExclusive: Brexit may hit NHS's nurse 'pipeline', says regulator chief
Nursing regulator says Brexit likely to impact “pipeline” of nurses to NHS EU nurses likely to face stricter tests to work Would increase NMC costs The “pipeline” of nurses coming to the NHS may be constrained because of likely changes to the approval process for those coming from ...
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SupplementsSupplement: Patient safety back to the drawing board
Misunderstanding of what ‘human factors’ means often leads organisations to try to change their people rather than the processes
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SupplementsTime to nurture better mental healthcare services
More government funding promised to increase specialist mental healthcare for mothers in the perinatal period is just part of the action required
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SupplementsLet patient experience take centre stage
Much needs to be done to bring patient experience to the forefront of the agenda
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SupplementsClouds, silver linings and Storm Desmond
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay had been prepared for emergencies but Storm Desmond tested the organisation to its limits
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SupplementsSepsis faces a new front
Technology is helping clinicians to detect sepsis earlier, something which is key to combating this often undetected killer
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SupplementsFear of litigation must never be a roadblock to transparency
Legal processes must never get in the way of supporting staff, reducing risks to patients and doing the right thing
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NewsExclusive: Watchdog resigns over deputy’s sexual harassment cover-up
Dame Julie Mellor resigns after accepting she made mistakes in handling of correspondence over deputy Resignation follows the revealtion that she was made aware of a sexual harassment cover-up by Mick Martin in July last year Dame Julie resigned today after investigation into her conduct by Sir Alex Allan. ...
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HSJ LocalSouthern Health to be split up but chief executive stays on
Southern Health Foundation Trust’s learning disability services in Oxfordshire to transfer to Oxford Health Foundation Trust Interim chair Tim Smart says “other changes will occur” at troubled trust Chief executive Katrina Percy will stay on but her focus will switch from operational matters to strategy STRUCTURE: Southern Health ...
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HSJ LocalBristol heart review finds 'no evidence' of 1990s failures being repeated
Children’s heart services review finds outcomes at University Hospitals Bristol “broadly comparable” with other centres However, parents sometimes “let down”, nursing staff “regularly under pressure” and managers took “unnecessarily defensive position” NHS England to publish plans for reconfigured congenital heart disease services next week PATIENT SAFETY: The independent ...
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NewsHunt tells EU staff 'you are a crucial part of our NHS'
EXCLUSIVE: Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has spoken for the first time since the EU referendum result, calling on the country to value the contribution of EU workers in the health service.
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NewsKeogh: We must make EU NHS staff feel welcome and valued
The NHS’s most senior doctor, Sir Bruce Keogh, has called on NHS leaders to send out a message to European staff working in the health service that they are valued and welcome in the wake of Friday’s vote for the UK to leave the EU.
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Expert BriefingLintern’s Risk Register: Reducing workforce while demand is rising is unsafe
Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern