Parents both contribute to and prevent paediatric patient safety incidents in #GeneralPractice, mostly averting harms through mitigatory actions and advocacy efforts doi.org/10.3399/BJGP... @t-purchase-gp.bsky.social @joymcfadzean.bsky.social @carsonstevens.bsky.social @dpmcardiffuni.bsky.social

Have you, or someone you care for, had an ambulance attend and you stayed at home instead of going to hospital?

Sam is carrying out a PhD study on how safe this is, and your experience could really help. Healthcare professionals with experience of non-conveyance please take part too.

Thank you 🙏🏼

We’re helping identify the top 10 research priorities for chronic and recurrent UTI in the UK. It only takes a few minutes to complete the survey and could help shape future care. www.surveymonkey.com/r/UTI_PSP

#UTISky

Our latest paper patient safety in eye care published in #Eye can be found here: rdcu.be/eafp5 led by Jen Acton and @carsonstevens.bsky.social

Prestigious award for THIS Director, Mary Dixon-Woods On receiving her award, Mary, who is also Professorial Fellow at Homerton College, Cambridge, said, “I am absolutely delighted to receive an honorary doctorate from the RCSI University of Medicine…

Today, @thisinstitute.bsky.social Director, @marydixonwoods.bsky.social was awarded an honorary doctorate by @rcsi.bsky.social celebrating the work she has done to make a difference to healthcare through education.

Congratulations, Mary from the team at THIS Institute

An abstract to a journal article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annemergmed.2022.12.029. The abstract reads: Emergency departments (EDs) are dynamic, complex, and demanding environments. Introducing changes that lead to improvements in EDs can be challenging owing to the high staff turnover and mix, high patient volume with different needs, and being the front door to the hospital for the sickest patients. Quality improvement is a methodology applied routinely in EDs to instigate change to improve several outcomes such as waiting times, time to de nitive treatment, and patient safety. Introducing the changes needed to transform the system in this way is seldom straightforward with the risk of“not seeing the forest for the trees” when attempting to change the system. In this article, we demonstrate how the functional resonance analysis method can be used to capture the experiences and perceptions of frontline staff to identify the key functions in the system (the trees), to understand the interactions and dependencies between them to make up the ED ecosystem (“the forest”) and to support quality improvement planning, identifying priorities and patient safety risks.

Proud of WESPA (Welsh Ergonomics and Safer Patients Alliance) **2024@cardiffuni.bsky.social Celebrating Excellence Awardees** students & staff from health (medicine and vision sciences), business and engineering that volunteered with the NHS during the pandemic to help improve systems for patients.

Antiviral molnupiravir offers only modest longer-term benefits for COVID-19, finds new paper from the PANORAMIC trial Can the long-term consequences of COVID 19 be reduced through the use of novel antiviral medicines? New research from the PANORAMIC trial, run in NDPCHS Clinical Trial Unit and funded and delivered by...

Is molnupiravir the way to go for reducing the long-term consequences of #COVID19? 💊

New study from our PANORAMIC trial reveals:
✅ Modest long-term benefits
❓Small reduction in symptoms
❌No drop in hospitalisations

See the full findings:
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/news/antivir...

Our new paper in @palliativemedj.bsky.social: Effective syringe driver care: we explore systems and the infrastructure needed to enable timely supply of medication & equipment, communication & continuity of care doi.org/10.1177/0269...