All Patient safety articles – Page 250
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NewsInfections fines may put Leeds trust at risk of financial deficit
Leeds Teaching Hospitals could be the first trust to fall into deficit because of fines levied by the primary care trust for failure to bring hospital infections under control.
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National quality board to study standards warning system
The national quality board is investigating how the NHS identifies potential failings in light of the serious problems at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust linked to up to 1,200 deaths.
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CommentJulia Tybura on communication and patient safety
Having just returned from a week’s winter sun, I was reflecting on one of my holiday reading selections, Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers. It struck me how his case studies on paddy fields and plane crashes resonated with my experiences in the NHS.
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NewsPatient outcomes linked to nursing staff levels
The more nurses that a trust employs per bed the fewer of its patients are likely to die or to experience long hospital stays.
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NHS faces up to 1,000 lawsuits over prison drug programmes
The NHS may have to pay up to £3.5m in damages to prisoners who claim they received poor support in giving up drugs.
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CommentMichael White on NHS bad news
Oh dear, it is barely a week since I wrote elsewhere that everyone knows “the NHS is much better” nowadays. Since then there has been a steady trickle of bad news, from Mid Staffs trust and from Birmingham children’s hospital, and poor cancer mortality outcomes.
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NewsCynthia Bower sets out her vision for Care Quality Commission
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has made it clear that trusts have no excuse not to meet hygiene code standards by next week’s deadline.
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C difficile outbreak leaves three hospital patients dead
Three patients have died as a direct result of a C difficile outbreak at hospital in the South East.
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CommentHow to use patient stories to inspire change in the NHS
The Academy for Large Scale Change is giving clinicians the skills they need to influence others and improve the quality of patient care in the NHS, writes David Levy
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CommentSimon Stevens on influencing clinical decision making
Paradoxically one of the most important determinants of healthcare quality and efficiency is one that NHS managers can do very little to influence, in fact it is practically invisible to the managerial gaze: the quality of clinical decision making.
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CommentNigel Edwards on winter pressures in the NHS
The NHS has learned much from the demand surges of other winters. But while effective measures are in place, costs are significant and challenges for managers still persist
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NewsWho let standards fall so low at Mid Staffordshire?
A damning Healthcare Commission review of emergency care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust last week found that money was put before patient care. Dave West investigates what went wrong
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Mid Staffs was 'off SHA radar'
Cynthia Bower has hit back at criticism that she could have done more to prevent problems at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust in her former role as chief executive of NHS West Midlands.
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NewsNHS failing on falls prevention
The Royal College of Physicians has uncovered a discrepancy between what NHS organisations have told the Healthcare Commission about falls prevention and what really goes on.
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NHS managers and boards need to act as custodians of quality and safety
NHS Confederation policy director Nigel Edwards said trusts could limit damage to their reputations in the wake of criticism of Mid Staffordshire foundation trust by ensuring they had good internal assurance systems.
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LeaderStay of execution will draw out the agony
Strategic health authorities grappling with trusts that will fail to make foundation status face opposition whichever way they turn.
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Failure of leadership and a lax attitude led to Mid staffs crisis
NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh criticised Mid Staffordshire foundation trust’s lax attitude to the quality of its services.Sir Bruce said: ”I’m pretty proud of the NHS but I’m really stunned by this report.
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Mid Staffordshire crisis: quality of care sacrificed in FT bid
A trust described as ”appalling” in one of the most critical NHS regulatory reports of recent years ”lost sight of its real priorities” in its desperation to become a foundation.
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Dignity in health and social care
Some simple practical steps can greatly improve patients’ experience of dignity. But the new quality accounts must recognise this if it is to be taken seriously by frontline staff
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Rebuilding public confidence will take time and community engagement
Eric Morton was appointed interim chief executive at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust on 5 March - the week after Martin Yeates resigned from the post. Mr Yeates had joined the trust in 2005.