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A number of opportunities were missed to ask more questions about patient safety during the 12-month attack spree of Lucy Letby, a NHS chief has told a public inquiry. Former neonatal nurse Letby ...
“We have also established an independent body to investigate and learn from serious patient safety incidents, and we have made progress in improving maternity services, reducing the stillbirth ...
It investigates patient safety concerns across the NHS in England and in independent healthcare settings where safety learning could also help to improve NHS care. [1] It aims to produce rigorous, non-punitive, and systematic patient safety investigations and to develop system-wide safety recommendations for learning and improvement.
The Act obligates frontline personnel to report adverse events to a national reporting system. Hospital owners are obligated to act on the reports and the National Board of Health is obligated to communicate the learning nationally. The reporting system is intended purely for learning and frontline personnel cannot experience sanctions for ...
NHS England produced a report on 148 reported never events in the period from April to September 2013 highlighting particular hospitals with more than one such event. [6] In 2021 there were still about 500 never events each year in the English NHS. According to Jeremy Hunt a hospital can get as many as 108 safety related instructions in a year. [7]
HART is deployed to various hazardous, complex or prolonged incidents. The national capabilities include: CBRN/HazMat - CBRNe and hazmat incidents High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID) - caring for patients with highly contagious diseases including viral haemorrhagic fevers such as Ebola and smallpox.
The Special Allocation Scheme [1] (SAS) is a process within the National Health Service in England, that allows general practitioners to deny their patients access to their general practice and others general practice if they think a patient's behaviour is aggressive or violent, limiting a patient's access to primary care to centres that have mitigations for risk of violence.
The NHS Improvement network recognises the significant contributions made by LIVES volunteers: [12] "This has been an innovative way of using locally available resources, at minimal cost, to improve patient outcomes for life threatening conditions in an environment where continued annual increases in demand for emergency ambulance services ...