All Patient safety articles – Page 254
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Using communication to improve patient safety
Effective communication in hospitals is vital to save lives and ensure patients receive the best care. Clinicians and managers alike should work to hone their skills in this area, as Liza Coffin explains
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Developing the annual health check
The Health Foundation has used learning from its safer patients initiative to advise on methodology that could be used when assessing whether acute trusts are complying with the hygiene code.
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Patient safety survey: those in peril
An HSJ poll has uncovered widespread under-reporting of safety failures, while national monitoring processes need a major overhaul. Charlotte Santry looks at the results
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Comment
Angela Greatley on mental healthcare in prison
Late last month, a Prison Officers’ Association official claimed that prison had become so comfortable that prisoners were no longer trying to escape.
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News
Inquiry shows gap in paediatric training
Children and young people with life-threatening illness are not being treated appropriately because professionals caring for them are not trained in paediatrics, the world's first confidential inquiry into child deaths has found.
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Poll of hospital patients reveals chasm in care standards
A Healthcare Commission survey of hospital patients in England has revealed ‘striking variations’ in some aspects of basic care.
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News
Inquiry reveals gap in paediatric training
Children and young people with life-threatening illnesses are not being treated appropriately because the health professionals caring for them are not trained in paediatrics, the world's first confidential inquiry into child deaths has found.
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News
Patient satisfaction varies massively, survey shows
The proportion of inpatients rating their hospital care as 'excellent' varies massively between the best and the worst trusts, a survey by the Healthcare Commission has found.
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CSIP factsheet on administering medicines
The Care Services Improvement Partnership's housing learning and improvement network has published an online factsheet to help practitioners, commissioners, care service managers and housing managers in extra care housing deal with issues surrounding administering medicines.
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News
Study on early abortions in non-hospital settings
The Department of Health has published the results of a pilot study on early medical abortions in non-hospital settings.
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News
Scottish Health and Safety Executive appoints director
Dr Paul Stollard has taken up post as the new director of the Health and Safety Executive in Scotland.
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News
UK behind on stroke care - Health Foundation
The UK lags behind other developed nations in stroke care and England is a long way from meeting its own targets, according to a report by the Health Foundation.The charity's report, to be published on Monday, includes data on performance, best practice and cost implications. It shows the UK achieved ...
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News
Foundation trusts must improve on MRSA
Monitor has warned four foundation trusts it will intervene if they fail to improve performance on MRSA. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals, Calderdale and Huddersfield, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Poole Hospital were told they had breached their terms of authorisation.
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News
NCT raises concerns over baby bottle chemicals
The NCT is calling for baby bottles to be clearly labelled following the finding that the chemical Bisphenol A can leak from the plastic used in many baby feeding bottles.
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Comment
How should boards approach safety and quality?
Patient safety and quality of care are important areas for the government and are quite rightly top priorities. Delivering them will be the responsibility of NHS trust boards, writes Robina Shah
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Comment
Media Watch: nurses' paperwork
Research suggesting nurses are drowning in paperwork generated a deluge of angry comment. 'The managers who preside over this shambles have blood on their hands,' screamed the News of the World.
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News
Leicestershire Partnership trust rapped over killer's treatment
An independent review has criticised a mental health trust's treatment of a man who was repeatedly in contact with its services but went on to kill one neighbour and injure another.
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News
Police stations no place for mentally ill says Sainsbury Centre
Police stations should not be used to detain people with mental health problems, the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health has said.
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News
Nurses vote to end private cleaning contracts
Nurses want hospital cleaning brought back into the NHS rather than contracted out to private firms, according to a poll of delegates at a Royal College of Nursing conference.
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Julian Topping on the Corporate Manslaughter Act
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has caused a stir in boardrooms across the land.