Is patient safety in the NHS in England a postcode lottery?

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 378-379
Author(s):  
John Tingle
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Law School ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
Recent Patient ◽  
Health Organization

John Tingle, Lecturer in Law, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, discusses some recent patient safety publications from the World Health Organization and the Care Quality Commission

The perioperative Team Brief: A patient safety initiative or another tick-box exercise?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 408-412
Author(s):  
Bernard Pennington ◽  
Joanne Garside
Keyword(s):  
Care Quality ◽  
World Health ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Surgical Safety ◽  
The World ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Safety Initiative

The World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist has been the subject of many professional discussions following its introduction in 2008. Since the addition of the Team Brief and Debrief in 2010 and the acceptance of the Five Steps to Safer Surgery as the gold standard, compliance has steadily improved (as audited by Care Quality Commission Inspections). This review of the literature therefore examined the perioperative Team Brief and identified gaps in knowledge. Evidence appears to suggest that whilst compliance is good in quantitative terms, there may be inconsistencies within the quality of Team Briefs from organisation to organisation and surgeon to surgeon. Concluding further research is required to establish what an effective Team Brief looks, sounds and feels like to all involved.

scholarly journals Field Test of the World Health Organization Multi-Professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide

PLoS ONE ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. e0138510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Farley ◽  
Hao Zheng ◽  
Eirini Rousi ◽  
Agnès Leotsakos
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Field Test ◽  
World Health ◽  
Curriculum Guide ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

scholarly journals Development of mobile application for safe surgery checklist

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Rafael Henrique Silva ◽  
Marcia Aparecida Nuevo Gatti ◽  
Sara Nader Marta ◽  
Nirave Reigota Caram ◽  
Solange de Oliveira Braga Franzolin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
World Health ◽  
Patient Identification ◽  
Safe Surgery ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
And Control

Communication and information technologies are increasingly influencing health actions, as well as patient safety. Thus, this study aimed to develop an application for conference and control of all stages of the Safe Surgery checklist suggested by the World Health Organization improving the safety of patients submitted to surgery. The problem of research lies precisely in the absence of mobile applications capable of meeting the need for patient safety. This study is applied in the technological development of an application with the possibility of deployment in any health service and easy installation on mobile devices. The app was built based on the Safe Surgery checklist established by the World Health Organization. The application allows patient identification through three identifiers. Later it contemplates all the items of the three stages of the checklist of safe surgery: Before anesthetic induction, Before the Surgical Incision and Before the Patient Leaves the Room. At the end of all the steps of the application, it calculates the risk to patient safety. The application developed is a tool that can be implemented in health institutions and used by professionals working in the operating room.

scholarly journals Adverse Events Capture Systems, Checklists and Teamwork as Relevant Tools to Reduce Complications and Increase Patients’ Safety in Spinal Surgery

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Barbanti Brodano ◽  
Cristiana Griffoni ◽  
Alessandro Ricci ◽  
Sandra Giannone ◽  
Daniela Francesca Ghisi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Clinical Outcomes ◽  
Spinal Surgery ◽  
World Health ◽  
Surgical Safety Checklist ◽  
Surgical Safety ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Adverse events in Hospitals are often related to surgery and they represent a relevant problem in healthcare. Different approaches have been introduced during the last decade to address the problem of patient safety, especially in the surgical environment. The teamwork is crucial in all these actions which aim to decrease adverse events and improve clinical outcomes. We analyze in particular the use of adverse events capture systems in spinal surgery and the use of checklist systems, starting from the Surgical Safety Checklist introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2008.

scholarly journals Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis of integrating the World Health Organization patient safety curriculum into undergraduate medical education in Pakistan: a qualitative case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samreen Misbah ◽  
Usman Mahboob
Keyword(s):  
Medical Education ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Education ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to conduct a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of integrating the World Health Organization (WHO) patient safety curriculum into undergraduate medical education in Pakistan. Methods: A qualitative interpretive case study was conducted at Riphah International University, Islamabad, from October 2016 to June 2017. The study included 9 faculty members and 1 expert on patient safety. The interviews were audiotaped, and a thematic analysis of the transcripts was performed using NVivo software. Results: Four themes were derived based on the need analysis model. The sub-themes derived from the collected data were arranged under the themes of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, in accordance with the principles of SWOT analysis. The strengths identified were the need for a formal patient safety curriculum and its early integration into the undergraduate program. The weaknesses were faculty awareness and participation in development programs. The opportunities were an ongoing effort to develop an appropriate curriculum, to improve the current culture of healthcare, and to use the WHO curricular resource guide. The threats were attitudes towards patient safety in Pakistani culture, resistance to implementation from different levels, and the role of regulatory authorities. Conclusion: The theme of patient safety needs to be incorporated early into the formal medical education curriculum, with the main goals of striving to do no harm and seeing mistakes as opportunities to learn. Faculty development activities need to be organized, and faculty members should to be encouraged to participate in them. The lack of a patient safety culture was identified as the primary reason for resistance to this initiative at many levels. The WHO curriculum, amended according to local institutional culture, can be implemented appropriately with support from the corresponding regulatory bodies.

scholarly journals Safer Care: Shaping the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Liam Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Priority Setting ◽  
World Health ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Action ◽  
The Face ◽  
Health Organization

AbstractFundamental characteristics of healthcare, including approaches to priority-setting, culture, traditions of professional practice, leadership styles, and accountability mechanisms mean that many deep-seated causes of unsafe care have proved intractable to transformation. The wisdom and experience of patients and families that have suffered harm is enormous and should be better harnessed. The World Health Organization has led a diverse range of global action on patient safety over two decades. This has been highly successful in promoting interest, understanding, and commitment as well as driving specific programmes of action throughout the world. The organisation has also played a powerful convening role in bringing experts, organisations, and countries together to discuss and plan initiatives. This focus must be maintained in the face of slow and inconsistent improvement.

scholarly journals Impact of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist on Patient Safety

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 (2) ◽  
pp. 420-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arvid S. Haugen ◽  
Nick Sevdalis ◽  
Eirik Søfteland
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
New Technology ◽  
World Health ◽  
Clinical Effects ◽  
Surgical Safety Checklist ◽  
Surgical Safety ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract The incidence of surgical complications has remained largely unchanged over the past two decades. Inherent complexity in surgery, new technology possibilities, increasing age and comorbidity in patients may contribute to this. Surgical safety checklists may be used as some of the tools to prevent such complications. Use of checklists may reduce critical workload by eliminating issues that are already controlled for. The global introduction of the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist aimed to improve safety in both anesthesia and surgery and to reduce complications and mortality by better teamwork, communication, and consistency of care. This review describes a literature synthesis on advantages and disadvantages in use of surgical safety checklists emphasizing checklist development, implementation, and possible clinical effects and using a theoretical framework for quality of provided healthcare (structure—process—outcome) to understand the checklists’ possible impact on patient safety.

scholarly journals The World Health Organization Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care and Their Consensus Recommendations

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (7) ◽  
pp. 611-622 ◽  
Author(s):  
Didier Pittet ◽  
Benedetta Allegranzi ◽  
John Boyce ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Hand Hygiene ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World Health ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
International Experts

The World Health Organization's Guidelines on Hand Hygiene in Health Care have been issued by WHO Patient Safety on 5 May 2009 on the occasion of the launch of the Save Lives: Clean Your Hands initiative. The Guidelines represent the contribution of more than 100 international experts and provide a comprehensive overview of essential aspects of hand hygiene in health care, evidence- and consensus-based recommendations, and lessons learned from testing their Advanced Draft and related implementation tools.

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