See my plans for 2024-25 and how they will benefit #patientvoice and #patientsafety in my latest blog at patientsafetycommissioner.org.uk

Due to demand we have extended the number of places available for our next #PSIRF embedding webinar taking place on 13 May 2024.

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Big News! The #Scan4Safety website has a fresh new look! Dive into our latest resource championing patient safety through innovative scanning tech.

Professionals in healthcare: Discover comprehensive guides and valuable insights at:
scan4safety.nhs.uk

NHS providers of acute adult and/or children and young people’s inpatient care, with an existing on-site 24/7 critical care outreach team, can now submit expressions of interest to participate in the first phase of the Martha’s Rule programme.

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Don't forget to register for next Monday's (4 Mar) embedding #PSIRF webinar. Registration closes at 12 noon on Thursday.

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The implementation of Martha’s Rule will take a phased approach, beginning with at least 100 adult and paediatric acute provider sites who already offer a 24/7 critical care outreach capability. We will soon be asking for expressions of interest to be part of the first phase.

Pocket sized #PSIRF 👏

Mental health patients are being failed when they leave care, warns Ombudsman.

Our latest report examines how #MentalHealth patients are getting stuck in a continuous revolving door of care & discharge, and what needs to be done to stop this.

Read more: ow.ly/szIH50QwE4n

A #PatientSafetyAlert has been issued with Association of Anaesthetists, Royal College of Anaesthetists & Safe Anaesthesia Liaison Group, instructing NHS providers to transition to NRFit™ connectors for all intrathecal and epidural procedures, and delivery of regional blocks, by Jan 25.

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I am pleased that NHS England has accepted my recommendation for a system to monitor the safe use of the most potent teratogenic medicines with a pregnancy prevention programme, starting with valproate - see patientsafetycommissioner.org.uk/our-work/recom… janet williams MBE INFACT/FACSA Emma Murphy (INFACT) ☘️💕😘🦋 ValproateSurvivors 🤰 #valproate caremongerer

Updated intermediate training is now available for those working in digital clinical safety. The training follows a patient journey, explains the role of a clinical safety officer and provides an overview of related documentation.

Find out more: digital.nhs.uk/services/clini…

Do you use NHS services, or care for someone that does? We'd love to hear from you about your preferences if you ever needed to tell us about something that had gone wrong: engage.england.nhs.uk/patient-safety…

To progress Commitment 3 of the #DigitalClinicalSafetyStrategy , we created a FutureNHS workspace to share resources, showcase best practice and build communities around digital clinical safety.

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Through Commitment 2 of the #DigitalClinicalSafetyStrategy , over 1,100 people have now been trained in digital clinical safety, and our ‘train the trainer’ initiative will rapidly expand the number of digital Clinical Safety Officers.

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Don't forget to register for next Monday's (6 Nov) embedding #PSIRF webinar. Registration closes at 12 noon today.

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#LASA errors are a common cause of medication related harm. Today World Health Organization (WHO) launched their technical document to support action to address these who.int/news-room/even… Neelam Dhingra Liam Donaldson

Our #DigitalClinicalSafetyStrategy has 5 core commitments. Through commitment 1 we are ensuring the NHS captures patient safety events involving digital devices and systems, so we can learn from them and take steps to improve safety.

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Don't forget to register for Thursday's (19 Oct) #LFPSE webinar, where we will be sharing findings from our discovery work on supporting patients and families to record patient safety events.

Registration closes at midnight.

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The webinar relates to the findings we have just published in our accompanying #LFPSE Patient and Family Discovery Report, which you can read here england.nhs.uk/publication/th……

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