All Patient safety articles – Page 35
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NewsUPDATED: 1.7m people added to shielding list 11 months after it started
A further 1.7m people are being added to the shielding list, and therefore newly prioritised for covid vaccination, 11 months after shielding began, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ LocalScandal-hit trust partnered with ‘outstanding’ care provider
The trust at the centre of one of the biggest maternity scandals in recent years has been partnered with another trust in the Midlands to drive improvements.
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CommentThe NHS needs a ‘harmed patient pathway’
The NHS should develop a harmed patients pathway to prevent ‘second harm’ or additional suffering of harmed patients and families who are unsupported, urge Peter Walsh, Joanna Hughes and James Titcombe
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HSJ LocalTrust battles global firm in £100m court fight over ‘substantial defects’ at flagship NHS hospital
One of England’s top NHS trusts is suing a major construction firm for £100m in a bitter legal dispute after significant structural defects were identified in its ‘pioneering’ new hospital, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsCovid pressures linked to increased fall rates and patient deaths
Two patients have died and at least seven more have come to harm in recent falls linked to covid-19 pressures at a small acute trust.
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News‘Medically fit’ patients caught covid while waiting for discharge, trust admits
A hospital trust has admitted that ‘medically fit’ patients caught covid on its wards while waiting to be discharged, with some of the cases under investigation.
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HSJ InteractiveCan digital technology help embed a strong patient safety culture?
The benefits of digital tools to patient safety can extend far beyond supporting better decision making, as an HSJ and Capsule Technologies webinar discussed
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HSJ InteractiveDigital technology can improve patient safety – with the right back-up
The pandemic has shown how digital solutions can help in, for example, the safe and effective transfer of care between settings, but it’s also exposed potential gaps in information governance arrangements
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NewsExclusive: Multiple whistleblowers flag ‘heartbreaking’ incidents at major trust
Clinicians within a major teaching hospital’s cancer services have raised multiple concerns over patient safety, which they believe have resulted from badly planned service changes in response to the covid crisis.
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NewsPandemic’s role blamed for trust’s 1,955 mixed-sex ward breaches
East Kent University Hospitals Foundation Trust reported 1,955 mixed sex accommodation breaches in November, the month before the new variant of the virus caused a huge increase in covid admissions across the county.
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NewsVax sites offered more staff to record jabs as IT system struggles with ‘exceptional demand’
Ongoing problems with a major IT system which tracks covid-19 vaccinations have forced NHS chiefs to fund more staff to ensure inoculations are accurately recorded, HSJ has learned.
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CommentHow we cut waits for a bed by sharing covid test data
Efficient access to patient testing data upon admission is making a big difference, says Richard Ewins
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NewsTrusts told to treat more covid-19 patients at home
Hospitals should ramp up their treatment of covid-19 patients at home to free up more beds during the peak of the pandemic, under plans announced by NHS England/Improvement.
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NewsAmbulance crews running out of oxygen amid supply problems
Ambulance crews in parts of the country hard hit by covid-19 have run very low on oxygen — or out of it entirely — on several occasions in the last month, HSJ has learnt.
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News‘It was horrendous’ - the reality of covid critical care in a smaller hospital
The following is a note from an intensive care consultant about a visit they made this week to a district general hospital in the home counties to transfer a patient to a larger hospital with more capacity further away from London.
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NewsNational investigation launched after oxygen problems leave trust struggling to care for covid patients
A national investigation has been launched into the robustness of hospital oxygen supply systems after the need to care for a rapildy increasing number of covid-19 cases caused problems which saw one trust struggling to treat critically ill patients.
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NewsCQC ‘monitoring’ patient safety after trust rations oxygen
The Care Quality Commission is “closely monitoring” a covid-challenged trust over fears for patient safety sparked by oxygen rationing.
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NewsHospitals told to involve engineers in ‘clinical decisions’ about oxygen
Trusts have been told to involve specialist gas engineers in their clinical decisions amid “very high demands” for oxygen services.
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NewsLong ambulance handovers reach highest level for three years
The number of ambulances waiting more than an hour to hand over patients hit a new high last week as pressure from coronavirus increased — even though the number of people being taken to hospital has dropped.
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NewsHard-hit region has more than twice as many critical care patients as last winter
One NHS region now has double the number of critical care patients it did last winter — and all areas are more full than last year — HSJ analysis shows.