Upcoming Patient Safety Events
Patient Safety in Focus and the HSJ Patient Safety Congress.
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Hospitals told to remove toxic chemical after children left with burns and patients injected by mistake
Confusion over similar looking bottles led to some mistakes that left patients needing intensive care.
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MPs say 1,000 babies die preventable deaths in England each year
Commons health committee says NHS has reduced baby deaths significantly but could do more to improve safety.
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Government guidance continues to put staff and patients at risk from the airborne nature of Covid-19
Fresh Air NHS, Patient Safety Learning and the SHBN
calling for urgent change to the UK government’s guidelines on PPE
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Covid: Masks upgrade cuts infection risk, research finds
The quality of face masks healthcare workers wear makes a huge difference to their risk of coronavirus infection, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust research has found. Wearing a high grade mask known as an FFP3 can provide up to…
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NHS trusts hiring non-nurses for nursing roles
Royal College of Nursing says recruiting people without the correct qualifications puts patients at risk. The RCN said the employment of non-nurses to work as nurses in hospitals and mental health facilities “should set alarm bells ringing with ministers” and…
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PPE guidance continues to put staff and patients at risk
Dr David Tomlinson has written a piece today on the hub of Patient Safety Learning describing that approximately 1,000 healthcare and care workers died from COVID-19 in the UK and 122,000 workers are suffering from Long COVID. He argues…
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Safety put at risk by staff burnout in health and social care
NHS and care staff in England are so burnt out that it has become an “emergency” and risks the future of the health service, MPs have warned. A highly critical report said workers were exhausted and overstretched because of staff…
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RCN publishes survey into sharps injuries and mucocutaneous exposures in 2020
Sharps injuries (SI) and mucocutaneous exposures (MCE), collectively termed “blood and body fluid exposure” (BBFE), pose a diseases-transmission risk and a psychological stress to health care workers (HCW) and a responsibility on employers to prevent their occurrence. The RCN…
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How will NHS staff with Long Covid be supported?
In a recent blog post, Patient Safety Learning interviewed Asad Khan, a doctor who has been suffering with persistent symptoms of Covid-19 for more than six months. This is also commonly referred to as Long Covid. Asad highlights the pressing…
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