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Patient safety interventions
The University Hospitals of Leicester trust was one of the first large acute trusts to sign up to Patient Safety First in June 2008. Representatives from the hospital heard about the campaign from networking events they had attended and since they had recently introduced a new patient safety strategy, ...
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Infection control
Patient Safety is about working together day in, day out, 365 days a year. It requires hard work and commitment to the cause, with each individual playing a vital role in preventing errors being made.
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Obesity
Liverpool, like many UK cities, has seen a significant rise in obesity in recent years. In the city, an estimated 40 per cent of the adult population is overweight and 20 per cent obese. It is estimated that obesity results in over 130,000 sick days every year in Liverpool.
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Career development
In the calls made for an increase in the quantity, quality and capability of clinical leaders there is a fundamental challenge. How to bridge the gap between clinical training and developing clinical leadership capacity for the future?
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Distraction and patient safety
I believe that distraction is one of the most powerful factors in errors and harm to patients in a hospital. To improve patient safety we need to be alert and watch out for distraction so we do not miss a trick in patient care.
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NHS governance
In the latest Apprentice series candidate James McQuillan was taken to task for writing in his CV that he would bring “ignorance” to the boardroom. While his choice of words was poor we knew what he meant - his outsider status would bring a new perspective to Sir Alan Sugar’s ...
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Advanced practitioners
As part of a wider programme of workforce modernisation in the North West, NHS organisations identified the need to develop the advanced practitioner role in 2005.
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Prescribing efficiency
GPs in the NHS are the gate keepers of an annual prescription spend of £8.3b in 2007/08. The paradigm is that GPs decide who should receive medication and more importantly, which type of medication is the most appropriate for a patient.
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Patient safety
The University Hospitals of Leicester trust was one of the first large acute trusts to sign up to Patient Safety First in June 2008.
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Perioperative care
Over 90 per cent of acute trusts are signed up to Patient Safety First and are actively making changes within their organisations’ to reduce avoidable harm and avoidable death.
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Leadership in patient safety
Sharon Beamish is chief executive of George Eliot Hospital is the deputy director of nursing at George Eliot Hospital
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Healthy eating
In the first initiative of its kind in the UK, social marketing techniques have been used to promote the sustained improvement of nutrition and healthy eating among hospital employees.
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Fly on the wall tool
Health and social care are labour-intensive service industries which are currently facing enormous change. Achieving staff engagement, excellent leadership and clinically focused organisations, particularly when 1.3 million NHS staff members are involved, calls for some radical rethinking of about how individuals learn and may achieve change in their working practices.
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Safety walkrounds
Royal Brompton and Harefield foundation trust’s first organisational value is: “We believe our patients deserve the best possible specialist treatment for their heart and lung condition in a clean, safe place.” To promote this idea of safety as a priority, the trust signed up to Patient Safety First in ...
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NHS marketing
In Hounslow a focused marketing campaign has helped ensure strong take-up rates of services at the area’s polyclinic.
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High-risk medications
The key intervention that Medway foundation trust has put into practice is the reducing harm from high-risk meds intervention. This aims to reduce harm from five high-risk medicines with a specific focus on insulin.
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Critical care interventions
Colchester General Hospital signed up to Patient Safety First in 2008. One of the key interventions they have targeted is the ventilator care bundle, which is part of the critical care intervention that aims to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
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Commissioner-provider divide
Primary care trusts are facing some critical issues over the integrity of local services as they separate their commissioner and provider functions.
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Carbon reduction
Increasing hospital efficiencies is a pressing issue for trusts. In 2008, the Government passed the Climate Change Act, which aims to achieve an 80 per cent cut in CO2 emissions from 1990 levels by 2050.
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Workforce planning
Planning the healthcare workforce has traditionally centred on ensuring that the correct numbers of each type of specialty professional are trained and employed in order to deliver a defined area of service.