Privileged to be able to share our experience of using GS1 standards to improve how we care for our patients and staff in Leeds Teaching Hospitals

⁦GS1 UK Healthcare⁩ Advisory Group members ⁦Andrew Raynes⁩ & ⁦Stephen Bush⁩ on the value to #patientsafety of #GS1 standards in hospitals ⁦GS1 Healthcare⁩ event #SaoPaolo today

Andy & Steve with #GS1 President Renaud de Barbuat & VP ⁦⁦Géraldine Lissalde-Bonnet⁩

Excited to be at ⁦GS1 Healthcare⁩ conference in #SaoPaolo and joined by two ⁦GS1 UK Healthcare⁩ Advisory Group members who spoke about their #GS1 adoption and today joined the #pinksocks UK tribe.

Welcome ⁦Andrew Raynes⁩ ⁦Stephen Bush⁩

⁦Nick Adkins⁩

Brilliant energy today at the Leeds Citywide Clinical and Care Professional Forum - coming together to share experiences and solve gritty problems! Fabulously compèred as ever by Stephen Bush! Leeds GP Confederation Cardio-Respiratory - LTHT Kate Gatenby George Winder

A pleasure and a privilege to participate in the Congress and share the great work going on in Leeds delivering improved care and safety for patients. Great to hear from Sean Weaver and support the work to reduce Never Events with tangible outcomes.

For Leeds Teaching Hospitals Medical Director - Operations, Steve Bush, the key is to 'Make the easy thing the right thing'.

Implementing #GS1standards and point-of-care #scanning to capture information in real time, at the patient bedside.

Patient Safety Congress & Awards #HSJpatientsafety

#WorldFirst #ATLS instructor course completed by Royal College of Emergency Medicine credentialed #ACP Amy Cawthorne directed by Stephen Bush Leeds Emergency Departments Leeds Teaching Hospitals The Old Swan Hotel

Another week over, it doesn’t get easier does it? But every week that goes by I grow more committed to finding a way through for the people I work with and the patients we serve because quite frankly this relentlessness cannot continue.

Congratulations to Amy Cawthorne for being the first RCEM credentialed ACP to successfully be put forward for ATLS instructor. #trailblazing RCEM ACP Chair Adrian Boyle Leeds Emergency Departments Leeds Emergency Department ACPs The Royal College of Surgeons of England Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

Mahoosive thank you to my wonderful colleagues who came in today to do a weekend MADE event on our wards. Hospitals are very different on a weekend so there is different learning to be had. Huge thanks to all the LTHT team on shift this weekend you were so welcoming, thank you.

The focus of the trust’s Scan4Safety programme is therefore focusing on these three areas, “because the general public would think we were doing them already”. #BetterCareCostsLess

Steve Bush of Leeds Teaching Hospitals says members of the public would understandably think the NHS would know where are its patients are, where its equipment is, and know which equipment has been used for which patient. 1/2 #BetterCareCostsLess

Steve Bush from Leeds Teaching Hospitals asks what advice he’d give to a trust embarking on #Scan4Safety . “Have a really hard look about what’s achievable, at what’s your real focus, at what can be done with the time and resources available.” #BetterCareCostsLess

Just said fare-thee-well to my wonderful colleague Saj Azeb. It’s been wonderful to work with him these last 4 1/2 years. Kind to a fault, patient centred in every act, and committed to improving care and delivery for patients. BHFT, you’re getting a good one!

Dr Wayne Hamer explains how important it is to attend the Emergency Department if you have any symptoms of a serious illness such as a heart attack, stroke or severe bleeding. We know it is an anxious time but please attend if you need to. #NHSHereForYou

Lovely little read if you have a minute:
Coronavirus has made us all Northern by Adam Wells link.medium.com/N9Pua3wty5

This important message about the NHS and self-isolation is delivered perfectly in Royal Navy petty officer Ben Taylor's Yorkshire accent.

Read more about self-isolation: bbc.in/3bG4Ifz

(credit: Yorkshire Prose)

Leeds Teaching Hospitals Senior leaders on their final day in Seattle, hosted by Virginia Mason Institute Facilities@Leeds Stephen Bush Richard Baker helen rolle Craige Richardson KPO@LTHT Clare Smith

Working in EM certainly has its challenges at the mo, but nights like last night are a reminder that there’s no better way to face them than working with your friends. What a team 😍 Leeds Emergency Departments

Two of our clinical directors, Andy Critical Care LTHTR and Richard Richard Baker helping to lead the way in Silver Command. Superb effort by LTHT teams to manage on going pressures, I think myself lucky every day to be working with such great and dedicated people.