All Patient safety articles – Page 125
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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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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
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Expert BriefingDeep South: Dial I for inadequate
Weekly updates and essential insight into the NHS in the South West, by Will Hazell
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NewsUS hospital lauded by Hunt 'out of compliance' with safety standards
Virginia Mason Medical Centre in Seattle “out of compliance” in 29 areas American accreditation body found hospital in condition which “poses a threat to patients” Jeremy Hunt has described Virginia Mason as “perhaps the safest hospital in the world” Hospital is buddied with five NHS trusts An American ...
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HSJ LocalNMC probe midwife sacked after new Morecambe Bay death
Midwife linked to death of Joshua Titcombe in 2008 dismissed after new death Trust disciplinary hearing concluded her “conduct fell fundamentally below acceptable standards” Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise hearing expected to reconvene next week PATIENT SAFETY: A midwife due to face a Nursing and Midwifery ...
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HSJ LocalNurses reminded to carry out 'appropriate observations' after patients harmed
PATIENT SAFETY: Patients at Homerton University Hospital Trust have been harmed as a result of nurses not observing or monitoring patients properly at night, HSJ has learned.
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NewsSafe staffing laws needed in England and all settings, warn nurses
Safe staffing laws should be introduced across the whole of the UK and in all health and care settings, nurses have urged as they committed to lobby government more on the issue.
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HSJ LocalCQC warns major teaching hospital over 'unnecessary risk' to patients
PERFORMANCE: A leading teaching hospital has been served with a warning notice by the CQC.
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NewsHigh court judge intervenes in NHS England drug decision
A High Court judge has criticised NHS England for refusing to fund a drug for a teenager with an exceptional illness and suggested it should also make the drug more widely available.
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HSJ LocalAmbulance trust scraps out of hours contract over safety fears
PATIENT SAFETY: South Western Ambulance Service Foundation Trust has served notice on its current out of hours medical contract with Gloucestershire CCG because it can no longer “offer a safe and effective service” for patients, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCare quality hit by delays in doctors accessing scans and x-rays
Royal College of Radiologists highlights widespread difficulties for doctors to access clinical images and reports More than half of doctors said they had experienced at least one instance of patient care suffering in the last year Problems lead to treatment delays, patients being rescanned and avoidable duplication of reporting ...
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NewsCase studies: Mismanagement of fetal medicine patients' care
The letter from fetal medicine units in London contains anecdotal evidence from the capital and across the country of patients being mismanaged and in some circumstances experiencing harm as a result.
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NewsExclusive: Babies 'dying unnecessarily' due to flawed funding system
Flawed system for funding fetal medicine leading to “morbidity and mortality” among women and babies, doctors warn London units have identified multiple cases of “avoidable harm” because of change in referral patterns Specialist units losing money as less than 10 per cent of bills for referrals being paid ...
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CommentAHSNs are proving to be a good deal
The AHSNs are making an impact and delivering a return on investment
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HSJ LocalShort-staffed neonatal unit 'should not have been operating'
WORKFORCE: A hospital’s neonatal unit caring for seriously ill new born babies did not have enough nurses or doctors to meet national guidelines and should not have been operating, an independent report has concluded.