Do not miss your chance to take part in the UK’s leading patient safety and healthcare worker safety conference, exploring trending topics like sustainability, violence at work, mental health, antimicrobial resistance, PSIRF implementation and more. At this year's Safety For All Conference, which takes place at the Royal College of Physicians in London on Tuesday 10th December, hear from the industry’s leading voices with keynote speakers including Charlotte McArdle (Deputy Chief Nurse England at NHS England), Professor Nicola Ranger (CEO of the Royal College of Nursing), and conference host Professor Rob Galloway (A&E Consultant at Brighton and Sussex Hospital NHS Trust). Safety for All is campaigning for patient safety and healthcare worker safety as two sides of the same coin by bringing together frontline healthcare workers, patient voices and industry decision makers to advocate for change and improvement. Secure your place at the link below ⬇ https://lnkd.in/ezxTiMFz #patientsafety #staffsafety #nhs #healthcare rob Galloway Ian Bullock Heidi Barnard Fiona Adshead Rose Gallagher MBE Kim Sunley Naomi Assame Josie Irwin Safer Healthcare and Biosafety Network Dr Ron Daniels BEM Claire Cox Helen Hughes
Patient Safety Learning
Hospitals and Health Care
London, England 17,471 followers
A charity and independent voice for improving patient safety.
About us
Patient Safety Learning is a charity and independent voice for improving patient safety. We harness the knowledge, enthusiasm and commitment of healthcare organisations, professionals and patients for system-wide change.
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https://www.patientsafetylearning.org/
External link for Patient Safety Learning
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- Hospitals and Health Care
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London, England
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2017
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100 Black Prince Road
London, England SE1 7SJ, GB
Employees at Patient Safety Learning
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Jonathan Hazan
Chairman at Patient Safety Learning.
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Lotty Tizzard
Content and Engagement Manager at Patient Safety Learning
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Judi Ingram
Quality & Patient Safety Consultant / Patient Safety Specialist at HCA Healthcare
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Stephanie O'Donohue
Communications & Engagement Strategist | Content Creator & Commissioner | Community Engagement | Writer | Editor
Updates
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In a new blog today, we look ahead to World Patient Safety Day 2024 and the theme of this year’s event, ‘Improving diagnosis for patient safety’ https://lnkd.in/e_FUnY78 #WorldPatientSafetyDay #WPSD2024 #patientsafety #diagnosis #diagnosticsafety #diagnosticerror #pslhub
Improving diagnosis for patient safety: World Patient Safety Day 2024
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"Despite being a full-time GP for 30 years, much of the information was unknown to me and probably unknown to the majority of GPs so we feel it is really important that transplant teams and primary care awareness is raised around this." Transplant patient care in general practice: Actions taken following a significant event - a new blog featured on the hub today https://lnkd.in/eySa-h-6 #pslhub #patientsafety #GP #primarycare
Transplant patient care in general practice: Actions taken following a significant event
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Valuing our differences—appreciating colleagues who work very ‘differently’ to you. Featured on the hub today, a blog by Sally Howard talking about psychological types and why understanding our preferences and how they differ to others can be incredibly valuable. Link: https://lnkd.in/etBcxP-h #pslhub #psychologicalsafety #personaldevelopment
Valuing our differences—appreciating colleagues who work very ‘differently’ to you, a blog by Sally Howard
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Patient Safety Partners: what does good look like? The Patient Safety Partner (PSP) role introduced by NHS England as one of two key strands of its 'Framework for involving patients in patient safety'. PSPs can be patients, relatives, carers or other members of the public who want to support and contribute to a healthcare organisation’s governance and management processes for patient safety. In April 2024 we jointly held a workshop with Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) focused on the implementation of the PSP role in the NHS and the question; “what does good look like?”. Attendees included members of the Patient Safety Partners Network (read more about the network here: https://lnkd.in/etme5Adk), national PSPs as well as managers from trusts. Drawing on the insights from this workshop, and reflections from members of the PSPN, we have now published a number of different blogs on this: ▶ Lack of role clarity a barrier for impact: https://lnkd.in/esGVWRRP ▶ Recruitment and induction: https://lnkd.in/etBjMyBD ▶ Influencing for safety: https://lnkd.in/e8rqPCev #pslhub #patientsafety #nhspatientsafetystrategy #patientengagement #patientinvolvement #patientsafetypartners
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Our Chief Executive Helen Hughes was quoted in the Observer yesterday on concerns about recent figures showing GP practices make about 400,000 referrals a month to outpatient clinics that are fully booked. GPs typically refer patients to outpatient clinics using the NHS e-referral service, which can also be used by the patient to book a suitable appointment. The most recent figures, for July, show there were more than one million appointments booked in England, but 407,173 cases in which no slots were available. Some patients will be able to choose an alternative provider, some will be booked at a later date, but many end up being bounced back to their local surgery. The number of unavailable slots has risen by 78% since July 2018, when the comparable figure was 227,937. There were severe shortages of appointments in orthopaedics, cardiology and diagnostic imaging. In her full comment, Helen said: "It is important that when new patients enter waiting lists that they are prioritised according to clinical need against those already on the list, rather than the system operating on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. Patients waiting for care need to be monitored and reprioritised as their level of need is likely to change as they wait. There is a major question as to who is responsible for ensuring that any patient deterioration while waiting for care is picked up and acted upon. These decisions need to be coupled with clear communications to patients experiencing long waits. This should include open and honest conversations about timescales for treatment, what they can expect to happen and when." She also highlighted that there does not appear to be a system for monitoring the impact on patients and patient safety of such waiting lists, stating: "We know how many people are waiting and for how long, but do we know the impact that is having on their health and wellbeing? How many people are deteriorating, experiencing pain and even dying whilst they are waiting? This is not just a numbers game, it’s about people and the impact on them and their families, for their physical and psychological wellbeing and their ability to live the life they want to." https://lnkd.in/eMhtnqvz #pslhub #patientsafety #outpatientclinics #waitinglist
UK patients going private to escape referrals ‘black hole’, say GPs
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This year's World Patient Safety Day will be focusing on diagnosis. Find out more about diagnostic safety and how we'll be supporting the event via the hub (free to join here: https://lnkd.in/e3dSDCCF). Read more about World Patient Safety Day 2024 here: https://lnkd.in/e5SSPS2W #WorldPatientSafetyDay #WPSD2024 #patientsafety #diagnosis #diagnosticsafety #diagnosticerror
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Featured on the hub this week, a study presenting initial findings of a evaluation of the role of Patient Safety Specialists in the NHS. Patient Safety Specialists are individuals in organisations who have been designated to provide dynamic senior patient safety leadership. The creation of these roles was a key part of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, with all NHS organisations in England asked to identify one or more specialists by late 2020. Key findings from this evaluation included: ▶ From the results of a national survey of Patient Safety Specialists, most respondents (68%) came from a clinical background; half (48%) were registered nurses and 8% had a medical background. ▶ The study’s findings suggested that many organisations were struggling to resource their patient safety specialists to the extent that specialists themselves would like and that NHS England recommended. ▶ Analysis of data from interviews and focus groups suggested that having a clear link to a board member invested in patient safety was crucial to patient safety specialists’ sense of being supported, and to ensuring that their work was prioritised appropriately. ▶ In the interviews and focus groups, participants noted that, for patient safety specialists to be successful, they needed to act as ‘critical friends’, able to ‘hold a mirror up’ to the organisation while building relationships. Read more below: https://lnkd.in/eVHjGGpE #pslhub #patientsafety #patientsafetyspecialists #nhspatientsafetystrategy THIS Institute (The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute) Robert Pralat Justin Waring PhD FAcSS FRSA Tara Lamont Helen Hughes
Professionalising patient safety? Findings from a mixed-methods formative evaluation of the patient safety specialist role in the English National Health Service (2 August 2024)
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Mind the potholes! Implementing After Action Reviews. Remember the last time you drove down a road full of potholes? Avoiding the hazards they create—burst tyres, damaged suspension and under-carriage—is like a healthcare organisation navigating potential pitfalls when implementing the learning response tools in the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) toolkit. Using the potholes metaphor, the National After Action Review (AAR) Reporting Template Team share their reflections on implementing AAR and its challenges: https://lnkd.in/eYYu8CqB #pslhub #patientsafety #patientsafetyincident #PSIRF #patientsafetyincidentresponseframework #afteractionreview #swarmhuddle #organisationallearning #organisationalculture Tracey Herlihey Jane Carthey Melanie Ottewill Judy Walker Gabby Walters
Mind the potholes! Implementing After Action Reviews: A blog by the National AAR Reporting Template Team
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Are you passionate about improving patient safety? Would you like to share your insights in an article or blog on the hub, our award-winning platform to share learning for patient safety? Find out more by taking a look at our blog writing guide: https://lnkd.in/e4uf-bpT #pslhub #patientsafety #blogwriting #healthcommunication
Guide to writing a blog
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