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Amrita D'Souza: Medical Communication Charts
The medical communication chart project began during a ward round in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the increasing number of patients being admitted who did not speak English the team set out to design an aid to address this gap in communication on daily medical ward rounds which was easy to use, patient friendly and quality assured.
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Andrew Rochford: World Patient Safety Day 2024
Patient safety should be at the heart of all that we do as clinicians and yet the ‘noise’ in the system makes it harder rather than easier, and we remain a long way from having a patient safety culture embedded within the NHS.
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Sam Mauger: Improving diagnosis for patient safety
We have grown used to a “one item” GP appointment, and yet health is often not that conveniently pigeon-holed with many older adults in particular living with multiple conditions.
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Navigating Patient Safety: Innovations in learning from patient safety incidents
This webinar focusses on highlighting patient safety initiatives across the country that promote learning from and/or encourage compassionate engagement with patient safety incidents.
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Information prescriptions
Information prescriptions are personalised pieces of information provided by Diabetes UK to give people goals to help prevent diabetes health complications.
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Andy Broomhead and Dani Roe: Diabetes UK on stigma
Research we carried out showed that 89% of people living with or at risk of diabetes had experience stigma at some point in their lives.
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Joseph Hill: Medical misinformation
In many instances, celebrities, activists, and politicians convey false information evoking harm to individuals and society.
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Tackling misinformation in medicine
Our experts discuss the impact of misinformation and disinformation on clinical practice and what we can do to address this.
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Patricia Munn: A patient perspective on misinformation
I was surprised that I was very much left to my own devices, ongoing monitoring has been minimal and happened only through my own intervention.
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Michelle Gavin: Misinformation in healthcare
Distinguishing valid information from misinformation can be difficult, especially on social media platforms, where the two often circulate side-by-side.
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Navigating patient safety webinar: HSSIB and the RCP
An introduction to the HSSIB team, the organisation’s role and some insights into their work.
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Enya Daynes: Patient safety and PRSAS
Patient safety is vitally important as services expand to meet demand, in line with the direction of the NHS long term plan.
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Andrew Rochford: Reflections on patient safety
There is much to be said about the importance of kindness and compassion in improving patient safety.
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Webinar series: Navigating patient safety
A webinar series aimed at doctors, doctors in training and doctors in training and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
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Navigating patient safety: Learning disability and sepsis
Our expert panel explore learning disability (LD) and sepsis, highlighting common themes from patient safety incidents nationally.
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Navigating patient safety: Time critical medications
Our third webinar with the post-graduate medical education team at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust.
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Navigating patient safety: Incident investigations and human factors
Our expert panel explore what PSIRF is and how investigations have changed.
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Chris Subbe: Martha's Rule
Martha’s Rule could help to enshrine a universal right to call for help, even in hospital.
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Webinar: Navigating patient safety with NCEPOD and the RCP
Our experts explore how NCEPOD's work has led to patient safety initiatives including national early warning scores and the management of sepsis.
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Andrew Rochford: The importance of World Patient Safety Day
More than 50% of harm is preventable, you may be right to ask whether ‘first, do no harm’ is at the centre of clinical practice?
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Eddie Kinsella: Why patient safety must be special every day
Patient-centred care requires effective engagement and communication between clinician and patient.
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Webinar: Patients and PSRIF: changing culture
Dr Tracey Herlihey, head of patient safety incident response policy at NHS England and Dr Henrietta Hughes OBE, patient safety commissioner.
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RCP and GIRFT frailty webinar series
A webinar series focusing on the increasing demand from an ageing population.