US Nurses to Picket Over Failure to Create Safer Patient Care Conditions

25/05/2021

Registered nurses represented by the Massachusetts Nurses Association at Falmouth Hospital will hold an informational picket on May 26 to call attention to Cape Cod Healthcare executives refusing to negotiate a new contract that creates safer patient care conditions. A contract agreement… 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