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Tag Archives: Preventable Hospital Mortality
More Transparency Enforced in NHS Hospital Trusts (BBC News / CQC)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC)’s final report on how NHS trusts review and investigate unexpected mortality in hospital patients in England concludes that a culture of learning from avoidable patient deaths has not been given sufficient priority, either nationally … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, NHS England, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Avoidable Harm, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Premature Mortality, BBC Health News, Care and Treatment Reviews (CTRs), Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Connor Sparrowhawk, Continuous Learning Culture, Critical Incidents, Criticised Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Deaths of Young People in Mental Health Units, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Governance and Learning, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities in England, Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), Honesty and Transparency, Hospital Trusts, Identification and Reporting of Problems, Involvement of Families and Carers, Learning Candour and Accountability (CQC), Learning Culture, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Acute Hospitals, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Emergency Departments, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Learning Disability Services, Learning Disabilities-Friendly Environments: Mental Health Services, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Monitoring Service Quality, Learning Disabilities: NHS England Initiatives, Learning Disabilities: Regulation and Inspection, Learning Disability (LD) Transforming Care Programme, Mazars, Mental Health In-Patient Deaths Under-Reported, NHS Hospital Trusts, Openness and Transparency, People With Learning Disabilities, Potentially Preventable Complications in Hospitalis, Preventable Adverse Events, Preventable Harm, Preventable Hospital Deaths, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Prevention, Protecting Vulnerable People, Quality Checks, Quality Improvement, Reducing Avoidable Premature Mortality, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Reviews and Investigations, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation (SIRIs), SIRI: Serious Incident Requiring Investigation, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, Sustained and Supported Involvement of Families and Carers (Involvement Enablers), Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Transparency, Transparency and Public Trust, Under-Reporting of Mental Health In-Patient Mortality, Unexpected Deaths in Hospital, Vulnerable Groups, Vulnerable Older People
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Guideline on Sepsis Recognition, Diagnosis and Early Management (NICE / BBC News / RCEM)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently published “Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management – guidance” (NG51). This presents recommendations on the identification and assessment people with suspected sepsis; risk factors and risk stratification; and the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Management of Condition, NICE Guidelines, Standards, UK
Tagged Acute Sepsis, Antibiotic Treatment in People With Suspected Sepsis, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Mortality, AVPU (Alert Voice Pain Unresponsive) Scale, AVPU: Alert V oice pain, BBC Health News, Dr Foster, Dr Foster Intelligence, Dr Ron Daniels: Chief Executive of UK Sepsis Trust, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Improving Sepsis Recognition and Treatment, Infection and Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NICE Guidance on Sepsis Recognition Diagnosis and Early Management (NG51), Patient Safety, Premature Mortality, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Quality Improvement, Raising Sepsis Awareness, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Russells Hall Hospital (Dudley), Sepsis, Sepsis Awareness, Sepsis Bundles, Sepsis Recognition, Sepsis: Risk Stratification Tools, Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: RCEM National Clinical Audit 2016/17, Sir Brian Jarman, unresponsiv e') scale
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Murky Evidence? Murkier Politics (BBC News)
Summary Trust no-one. Believe nothing. Use your own judgement. Back to renaissance values? Full Text Link Reference Bloch, S. (2016). Hunt ‘misrepresented’ data on 7-day NHS. London: BBC Health News, February 24th 2016.
Posted in BBC News, Commissioning, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS England, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Ageing Population, BBC Health News, BMA Shambolic Mishandling and Calculated Misinformation (Political Rebound to Earlier Hunt Allegations), British Medical Journal (BMJ), Care in General Hospitals, Culture Change in the NHS, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Deborah Williams: NHS England's Seven Day Services Forum Project Manager, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Treatment, FOI: Freedom of information, Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Heidi Alexander: Former Labour Shadow Health Secretary, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Party Leader), Junior Doctors: Contract Dispute of 2016, Junior Doctors’ Morale Wellbeing and Quality of Life, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Directorate: NHS England, Misinformation, Misinformation: Conflation and Skewed Interpretations Behind Junior Doctors' Dispute, Monday to Friday Culture, Mortality, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality by Day of the Week, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, Mythology of the Times, NHS England’s Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Services: Seven Days a Week Forum, NHS Seven Days a Week Forum, Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Potted Weekend Effect Synopsis (Department of Health), Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekend, Reform, Resistance to Change, Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP: Former Secretary of State for Health, Seven Day Services Forum, Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Stuff Their Mouths With Gold (History of How Aneurin Bevan Placated the BMA), System Re-Design, Thinking Like a Patient and Acting Like a Taxpayer, UK Statistics Authority, Unspoken Political Context: Weaponising the NHS (Speculative Construct), Variations in Quality of Care, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working
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