The West of England Patient Safety Collaborative (PSC) is playing a key role in the two-day Patient First event at London’s Excel on 22 and 23 November 2016. We are joining our 14 fellow PSCs from across England to share information and learning – and to extend our networks. As well as a large stand space we have our own…
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This summer our Patient Safety team hosted a team of four visitors from Korle Bu teaching hospital in Accra, Ghana, a distance for 4,705 miles from us. The aim of the visit was for the team to learn about quality improvement and patient safety in the UK. The Ghanan team included Quality Improvement Manager Otchi, Elom…
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The Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative (ELC) started its implementation phase in September 2015. The two-year quality improvement project is a collaborative project between West of England, Kent, Surrey and Sussex and Wessex AHSNs with the aim of accelerating the spread of a care bundle that aims to improve standards of care for patients undergoing this surgery,…
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This month we welcomed Dr Mike Durkin National Director Patient Safety at NHS Improvement and Nigel Acheson Medical Director NHS England South to the West of England AHSN to talk about the work we are doing in our Patient Safety Collaborative. Now in its third year, Mike heard about the progress and achievements of our Collaborative to date and…
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Our NEWS (National Early Warning Score) implementation toolkit is featured in NHS Improvement’s latest patient safety resource alert, which brings together a range of resources to help NHS organisations reduce the harm caused by a failure to recognise and respond to patients of all ages at risk of deterioration. Patients of all ages are known to suffer harm if deterioration…
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The AHSN Network’s first Patient Safety Collaboratives’ report was launched at Patient Safety Congress last week. The brochure, ‘Making care safer for all’ provides four full case studies; descriptions of our cluster work; our leadership role; and our shared priorities for the coming year. In his foreword to the report, Dr Mike Durkin, NHS National Director of Patient…
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Find out more about the work we’re involved in with member organisations in the West of England to enhance Patient Safety in our latest podcasts. Dr Hein Le Roux is Primary Care Patient Safety GP Lead at the West of England AHSN. Here Hein interviews Dr Emma Redfern on our programme to encourage the use of the National Early Warning Score…
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Within GP practices, just as in any organisation, a better safety culture is associated with greater satisfaction and engagement from staff – the safer the culture, the better the care. It is now accepted that ‘good culture’ in the NHS is crucial to ensure patients receive high quality care and better outcomes. As teams work to…
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“Checklists are like toothbrushes; everyone wants one, but they don’t want to use anyone else’s!” On Monday 25 April 2016, the West of England Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) hosted a free masterclass on the Emergency Department (ED) Safety Checklist, piloted at University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UHB). Delegates were invited from EDs and AHSNs around…
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This spring, the South Western Ambulance Service (SWASFT) launched a new electronic Patient Care Record (ePCR) with Weston Area Health NHS Trust – an electronic solution designed by paramedics for paramedics. 19 emergency vehicles have been fitted with the ePCR device and 14 clinical workstations have been installed at five receiving units at Weston General Hospital. 98 SWASFT clinicians…
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