Safety
A focus on improving patient safety including resources and projects on safety culture, human factors, situational awareness, event reporting and preventing deterioration.
Key resources
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Situation Awareness for Everyone
Situation awareness requires a shared understanding of what is happening. This needs non-hierarchical information and communication. There are many different tools and techniques that together can deliver situation awareness in a healthcare setting.
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S.A.F.E Team Perspectives
S.A.F.E teams have shown how the safety huddle can enable healthcare professionals to communicate effectively, and recognise and respond to the deteriorating child in a timely way.
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Safe System Framework
A safer system can work in partnership with families and patients, develop a patient safety culture and support ongoing learning to aim to improve recognising and responding to children at risk of deterioration.
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Projects
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Learning from PICU transfers from a Paediatric Emergency Department and Paediatric ward
Establishing a monthly multi-disciplinary analysis of all paediatric cases transferred from the paediatric emergency department and paediatric ward to PICU.
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Augmenting the Safety Netting Process and Reducing Unnecessary Re-Presentations
Identifying areas for improving the safety netting process and the scale of unnecessary re-presentations to implement changes to reduce re-presentations to PAU.
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Safely Reducing Empirical Antibiotic Administration on Postnatal Wards
Incorporating the Kaiser Permanente Sepsis Risk Calculator (KP-SRC) into a new guideline to aid in decision-making for babies on postnatal wards with Early Onset Neonatal Sepsis risk factors.
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Improving Early Thermal Care for Preterm Infants
Joint maternal-neonatal safety collaborative project to increase the number of preterm neonates admitted on to a neonatal unit with an admission temperature between 36.5°C to 37.5°C.
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Implementing Multidisciplinary Ward Safety Huddles To Improve Situation Awareness
Improving patient safety on a general paediatric ward 6N at the Royal Free Hospital London, a pilot site for the national Situational Awareness for Everyone Programme.
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Reducing Necrotising Enterocolitis (NEC): A Quality Improvement Initiative
Raising awareness of the risk factors linked to NEC to decrease the incidence of NEC on our neonatal unit.
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Neurotic About Notes: A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Note Safety
Reducing the incidence of notes being incorrectly stored away from a secure trolley on the paediatric ward using peer champions and staff posters.
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The Rate of Babies Born Less Than 27 Weeks Gestation with NICU On Site
A multi-site project to improve East of England Network's rate of babies born at less than 27 weeks gestation in a maternity unit with a NICU on site,...