Practical Patient Safety Solutions

08/11/2019

Great day delivering level 1 course at UCLPartners. Really engaged delegates and great to see commitment from RNOH.

14/10/2019

https://www.hsj.co.uk/policy-and-regulation/jeremy-hunt-launches-charity-to-monitor-patient-safety/7026089.article

Jeremy Hunt has set up a patient safety charity which will establish data he can use to report on levels of avoidable harm in healthcare, HSJ can reveal.

13/10/2019

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/02/little-progress-nhs-patient-safety-past-20-years-says-chief/

“Little progress” has been made improving patient safety in the NHS over the past 20 years, the top health service watchdog has said.

13/10/2019

12/10/2019

Practical Patient Safety Solutions Promo 2

12/10/2019

Practical Patient Safety Solutions Promo 1

20/04/2019

https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1793.full

Introducing competition into the NHS in England to try to drive up quality had the perverse effect of lowering it for some elective procedures, a team of economists from Surrey and York universities has found. In a paper presented this week at the Royal Economic Society’s conference in Warwick, th...

20/04/2019

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3604917/

Much of what we do every day, including working in teams in the operating theatre, centres on practices fraught with preventable errors. The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that half a million deaths related to surgery could be prevented each year with implementation of their checklist (htt...

20/04/2019

https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/news-and-events/media-centre/press-releases/assuring-standards-independent-sector/

The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) is calling for independent hospitals to collect and publish equivalent data to that which the NHS routinely provides on patient safety and clinical audits. The RCS has published a position statement setting out the changes to standards in the independent sector it...

20/04/2019

https://mdujournal.themdu.com/issue-archive/spring-2019/second-victim-support

20/04/2019

https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1308/rcsbull.2019.92

Abstract In the second instalment in the Psychology of Surgery series, we look at how to prevent the negative spiral of panic in critical surgical situations.