European Parliament votes to stop cancer at work and include hazardous drugs and reprotoxins in the Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (CMD)

26/03/2021

Stop Cancer at Work Campaign calls on the European Commission to work with the Parliament and Council to legislate now to prevent workplace cancer The European Parliament voted yesterday late afternoon to support the Stop Cancer at Work campaign’s demands… Read more

Staff safety and wellbeing in the NHS: The difference between vision and reality

19/03/2021

very year, the NHS surveys its staff to find out about their experiences of working for their respective organisations. This week saw the publication of the 2020 NHS Staff Survey, which had almost 600,000 respondents representing 47% of NHS staff… Read more

Healthcare Worker Safety and Patient Safety ‘Two Sides of the Same Coin’ says Jeremy Hunt

18/03/2021

Speaking today at a webinar for the Clinical Human Factors Group, Jeremy Hunt MP, Chair of the Health and Social Committee for the House of Commons, has said that Healthcare Worker Safety and Patient Safety and ‘two sides of the… Read more

Virtual Conference on Hospital Workers Wellbeing Matters

15/03/2021

On 23rd February 2021, the International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQa) and the International Hospital Federation (IHF) held a virtual conference on hospital workers wellbeing matters. The event provided ISQa’s and IHF’s members and the wider community a global perspective… Read more

NHSE/I publish update to Patient Safety Strategy

10/03/2021

NHS England and Improvement have published an update to their joint paper The NHS Patient Safety Strategy. The strategy which was first published in June 2019 set out the NHS’s strategy for achieving its vision of continuously improve patient safety. Read more

The Clinical Human Factors Group is holding a conference on the impact of staff well-being on creating safety on 18th March

08/03/2021

On 18th March 2021, The Clinical Human Factors Group will be holding a virtual conference on the impact of staff well-being on creating safety. The Clinical Human Factors Group is a charity that works with healthcare professionals, managers and service-users… Read more

Royal College of Nursing launch a sharps survey for their members

05/03/2021

The RCN have recently ran a survey asking members to share information on their experiences of sharps injuries at work. The RCN stated that sharps injuries, from instruments such as needles and scalpels, are a serious occupational hazard affecting nursing… Read more

Report by Swedish medical device company Mölnlycke find that incidents of sharp injuries have increased because of the Covid-19 pandemic

05/03/2021

A survey by the Swedish medical devices company Mölnlycke of 251 Occupational Health (OH) professionals has found that that incidents of sharps injuries in hospitals have increased because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The survey which was commissioned to understand their… Read more

Government announces plans to appoint an independent Patient Safety Commissioner

24/02/2021

The government has announced that it will accept one of the key recommendations from The Independent Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Review, ‘First do no harm’, which was chaired by Baroness Cumberlidge.The review was announced in February 2018 with the… Read more

WHO produce new ‘Healthcare worker safety: a priority for patient safety’ charter