What does Quality Improvement bring to Patient Safety?
Nikki Davey, Clinical Human Factors Trustee, talk about the importance of context when implementing change and the use of here and now testing and measurement.
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How does Human Factors play into Quality Improvement?
Nikki Davey, Clinical Human Factors Group Trustee, talking from a position of Quality Improvement about how Human Factors and Ergonomics and Quality Improvement practitioners can contribute to patient safety.
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World Health Organisation – 10 global facts on Patient Safety
Patient safety is a serious global public health concern. There is a 1 in a million chance of a person being harmed while travelling by plane. In comparison, there is a 1 in 300 chance of a patient being harmed during health care. Industries with a perceived higher risk such as the aviation and nuclear industries have a much better safety record than health care.
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TED Time Escalation Decision Learning package
Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy (HIE) occurs when the foetal brain does not receive enough oxygen. This can lead to severe impairment or death of the baby and is of course devastating for both families and staff.
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Investigating for Improvement – building a national safety investigator for Healthcare
This thought paper explores how healthcare systems can develop a system-wide approach to investigating and learning from the most serious patient safety issues, and examines the organisational infrastructure that is needed to support this.
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Patient Safety Collaboratives
England’s 15 Patient Safety Collaboratives play an essential role in identifying and spreading safer care initiatives from within the NHS and industry, ensuring these are shared and implemented throughout the system.
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Circle of Care a model for Compassionate Human Factors in Healthcare
Circle of Care is a model for Compassionate Human Factors in Healthcare, created by the Simulation and Interactive Learning Centre (SaIL) at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) in collaboration with Clod Ensemble’s Performing Medicine programme. It helps us think about, practise and demonstrate the high quality compassionate care to which we all aspire to.
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Patient Safety Annual Report
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Patient Safety Annual Report
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Continuous Improvement of Patient Safety – The Health Foundation
The pursuit of safety is not for the timid. This Health Foundation report eloquently surveys the landscape of obstacles. But there are at least two inescapable facts that make improving safety especially difficult and frustrating.
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Implementing Culture Change Within the NHS
The practical steps required to implement culture change in the NHS is the subject of a new report … by the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Division of Occupational Psychology …
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