Helen Parsons, patient safety programme manager, Janet Ashworth, associate director of nursing and patient safety, and Lucy Watson deputy director of nursing and patient safety, explain how Somerset's primary care trust is putting patient safety first.
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Newham University Hospital NHS Trust is learning a great deal from its safety journey. Since participating in the Leading Improvement in Patient Safety (LIPS) programme, run by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement’s Safer Care team, the Trust has put in place a range of key building blocks to improve the safety of its patients.
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Salford Royal - collaborative working
A Breakthrough Series collaborative was used to engage staff to change their clinical area, which has resulted in cardiac arrests being viewed as never events...
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South Devon Healthcare Foundation Trust
South Devon introduced a structure for presenting critical information at handover. This has aided communication between team members and benefited care...
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Royal Devon and Exeter
It is recognised that hospitals may not consistently be the place of safety that patient expect. Indeed, some literature suggests that early recognition of deterioration can be inconsistent...
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George Eliot Hospital
Back in 2005 George Eliot Hospital Trust had one of the worst patient safety records in England. Since then it has been changing the way staff of all levels work and has greatly reduced the number of adverse events...
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Gateshead Health Foundation Trust
Avril Lowery, Head of SafeCare, Gateshead Health Foundation Trust, tells how they have taken the guiding principle of Patient Safety First, to make patient safety everyone’s number one priority , and applied it to their own environment creating an internal campaign that works for them...
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Heart of England Foundation Trust
Together with information gathered from the Institute of Healthcare Improvement and visits to other healthcare systems, we had many ideas about how we could improve patient safety so signing up to Patient Safety First was a natural step to support the Trust’s safety improvement programme...
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Installing an old-fashioned sphygmomanometer beside every hospital bed may seem at odds with 21st century quality health care. But recalling this ‘key cornerstone in nursing provision from the past’ has already contributed to a 30 percent reduction in unexpected cardiac arrest outside critical care...
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"The organisation learned a lot from the ward where these changes and closer monitoring were first implemented"
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