What a year 2016 was for the West of England AHSN and our member and partner organisations. We asked our team for their favourite highlights from the last 12 months and here’s what they came up with… The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Gothenburg Attending and presenting at this conference back in April…
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This week our Patient Safety Team met at a bakery in Bristol to review the progress of the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative over the last year and to plan for the future. We know from our latest stakeholder survey results that 94% of colleagues who received our support around patient safety work found it valuable. During our away day the…
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Christmas and New Year are the busiest time of the year for emergency departments across the country. Did you know around 350 people each year injure themselves putting up Christmas lights? And there are many other hazards around. There’s lots of advice on the NHS England website on how you and your family can stay safe this Christmas…
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The National Reporting and Learning System helps protect patients from harm. This video shows the process of developing a Patient Safety Alert and the importance of reporting patient safety incidents to the NHS’s National Reporting and Learning System. Patient Safety Alerts are issued by NHS Improvement to provide advice and information to providers of NHS-funded…
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Now in its fourth year, this independent conference will be held in Bristol on 3 May 2017. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear from patient safety and QI experts, including an interactive workshop run by the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative: “I’m a patient: get me out of here!” on our deteriorating patient programme. Deborah Evans,…
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Are you watching a pantomime or nativity play this Christmas time? Spare a thought for our patient safety team who put on their own production of a patient story at the Patient First conference in London in November. The team performed What About Bobby? to a packed audience of over 200 attendees who heard how…
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The 15 AHSN Patient Safety Collaboratives are playing a major role at the annual Patient First event later this month. The Collaboratives are hosting a new Best Practice theatre at the conference and exhibition, which takes place at London’s ExCeL on 22 and 23 November. The West of England’s NEWS journey will be the subject of our…
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Gloucestershire CCG has won a Nursing Times Award for Patient Safety Improvement for its work to raise awareness of sepsis and support frontline clinical decision. Our understanding of patients with sepsis has changed: we are now aware how common it is and that it can arise from common infections such as pneumonia, UTI, cellulitis and abdominal…
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We need your input to help shape our next falls reduction event in 2017! In March 2016 the West of England AHSN held a collaborative learning and sharing event focused on reducing harm from falls. You can read the output report from the event or our blog post about the day. We are looking to…
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The West of England AHSN, on behalf of the West of England Patient Safety Collaborative, hosted the fourth event of the Deteriorating Patient workstream on 15 September 2016. This marked 18 months since the start of this workstream, which specifically focusses on promoting the use of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in all health care settings across the…
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