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May 30, 2024 · NHS England said electronic patient record systems had been shown to improve safety and care for patients, by helping clinicians detect those at risk from conditions such as sepsis.
Nov 11, 2021 · Care clustering. Planning care is essential in the delivery of appropriate nursing care. Following assessment of a patient's needs, the next stage is to ‘plan care’ to address the actual and potential problems that have been identified.
- Common Sources of Patient Harm
- Factors Leading to Patient Harm
- System Approach to Patient Safety
- Who Response
Medication errors. Medication-related harm affects 1 out of every 30 patients in health care, with more than a quarter of this harm regarded as severe or life threatening. Half of the avoidable harm in health care is related to medications (3). Surgical errors. Over 300 million surgical procedures are performed each year worldwide (6). Despite awar...
Patient harm in health care due to safety breaks is pervasive, problematic and can occur in all settings and at all levels of health care provision. There are multiple and interrelated factors that can lead to patient harm, and more than one factor is usually involved in any single patient safety incident: 1. system and organizational factors: the ...
Most of the mistakes that lead to harm do not occur as a result of the practices of one or a group of health and care workers but are rather due to system or process failures that lead these health and care workers to make mistakes. Understanding the underlying causes of errors in medical care thus requires shifting from the traditional blaming app...
Global action on patient safety
Recognizing patient safety as a global health priority, and as an essential component of strengthening health systems for moving towards universal health coverage, the Seventy-second World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA72.6on “Global action on patient safety” in May 2019. The resolution requested the Director-General to emphasize patient safety as a key strategic priority in WHO’s work across the universal health coverage agenda, endorsed the establishment of World Patient Safety Day...
Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030
The Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021–2030provides a framework for action for key stakeholders to join efforts and implement patient safety initiatives in a comprehensive manner. The goal is “to achieve the maximum possible reduction in avoidable harm due to unsafe health care globally”, envisioning “a world in which no one is harmed in health care, and every patient receives safe and respectful care, every time, everywhere”.
World Patient Safety Day
Since 2019, World Patient Safety Dayhas been celebrated across the world annually on 17 September, calling for global solidarity and concerted action by all countries and international partners to improve patient safety. The global campaign, with its dedicated annual theme, is aimed at enhancing public awareness and global understanding of patient safety and mobilizing action by stakeholders to eliminate avoidable harm in health care and thereby improve patient safety.
- Life expectancy is stalling and health inequalities are widening. After a century of increases, the decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic saw improvements in life expectancy among the UK population stall.8 For some, these improvements went into reverse: between 2010–12 and 2016–18, life expectancy among women living in the most deprived 10% of areas of England fell, with the largest decreases in the North East.9.
- Key risk factors are driving a significant and unequal burden of preventable ill health and premature death. Smoking, poor diet, physical inactivity and harmful alcohol use are the leading risk factors of preventable ill health and mortality in the UK.27 All of these risk factors are socially patterned and have multiple causes, including structural social and economic conditions.28 For example, people’s ability to adopt healthy behaviours is strongly shaped by the resources they have to buy food, the kind of work they do, the shops in their local communities and whether there are safe and accessible spaces to play and exercise.29 Commercial influences matter too – for instance, in shaping the expense and availability of unhealthy food, alcohol, and tobacco, and how they are advertised and promoted.30 Exposure to these risk factors can be influenced through national policy, like changes in prices and regulation.
- People are living for longer but with major health conditions. A mix of factors affect the number of people living in poor health, including changes in the prevalence of leading risk factors for ill health, social and economic conditions, the size and age of the population and more.
- Unmet need for NHS and social care services is substantial and increasing. While health needs are set to increase, the NHS and social care are already struggling to deliver care and support to people who need it.
Nov 16, 2021 · With support and care disrupted and Covid making people more isolated and less active, their health has suffered. According to those working in the NHS, they are now turning up to hospital in...
Dec 19, 2023 · One of the biggest and busiest trusts, Guy's and St Thomas' in London, suffered a catastrophic failure when their IT system went down last summer, during a heatwave. A report showed operations were...
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This study expands our knowledge of ambulatory patient safety by identifying perceived safety issues and strategies to improve ambulatory safety. It does so by integrating clinician, staff, and patient perspectives as well as observations of key clinic processes related to safety in a diverse sample of PCMHs.
