CPSSQ Monthly News Update
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**NEW CENTRE FOR TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH INTO PATIENT SAFETY TO BE CREATED**
We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded over £7.2 million in funding to continue making the NHS a safer place for patients. The funding, which comes from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), will be used to establish a Centre for Translational Research into Patient Safety. The centre aims to promote improvements in the safety, quality and effectiveness of healthcare services. The funding has been awarded for five years from 1 August 2012, following on from the £4.5m award (2007-2012) for Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality and is one of only two national centres. Professor Charles Vincent will be Director, current director of CPSSQ, and will lead the new programme with Professor Ara Darzi as clinical director. For more information click here
Publication of the Month
- Investigating the prevalence and causes of prescribing errors in general practice: The PRACtICe Study. Avery T, Barber N, Ghaleb M, Franklin BD, Armstrong S, Crowe S, Dhillon S, Freyer A, Howard R, Pezzolesi C, Serumaga B, Swanwick G, Talabi O. View the report for the GMC *HERE*
- How reliable are clinical systems in the UK NHS? A study of seven NHS organisations. BMJ Qual Saf 2012. View the article here
- Patient safety in developing countries: retrospective estimation of scale and nature of harm to patients in hospital. BMJ 2012;344:e832. View the article here
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- Designing Out Medical Error (DOME) project has featured in The Lancet Technology; Feb, 2012
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"The DOME project suggests a pragmatic approach to care that is efficient, patient-centred, safe, and—in its own way—beautiful." View the article here
- Single measures of performance do not reflect overall institutional quality in colorectal cancer surgery. Almoudaris A, Burns EM, Bottle A, Aylin P, Ara Darzi, Vincent C, Faiz O. GUT. View the abstract here. This article is related to the High Performance in Surgery (HiPer) Project
- The ABC of handover: a qualitative study to develop a new tool for handover in the emergency department. Farhan M, Brown R, Woloshynowych M, Vincent C. Emerg Med J. View the paper here
- Breaking the rules: understanding non-compliance with policies and guidelines. Carthey J, Walker S, Deelchand V, Vincent C, Griffiths WH. BMJ. View the paper here
Awards and Prizes
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Maria Ahmed has won the the BMJ Group Improving Health Awards 2012: Excellence in Education Award for her work entitled 'Lessons Learnt: Building a Safer Foundation'. CLICK HERE to hear what the judges thought of Maria's work.
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Nick Sevdalis has won the Best Paper Award at the Association for Surgical Education Annual Meeting in San Diego for his work entitled "How much training is required to assess nontechnical skills in surgery? Learning curves for novice nonclinical educators”
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Maria Ahmed has won the Innovation in Medical Education Award for my presentation at the 15th Ottawa International Conference on the Assessment of Competence in Medicine and the Healthcare Professions for her work entitled 'Operation Debrief: A SHARP intervention to improve performance feedback in the OR'
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Sonal Arora has won the Excellence in Research Award at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, San Francisco 2011 for her work entitled “Mental Practice enhances technical and teamwork skills in high fidelity crisis simulation: A randomized, double-blinded study.”
Topics of Interest
- A structured Endoscopy Safety Checklist has been launched at the Wolfson Unit for Endoscopy at St. Mark's Hospital this week. The concept is based on the WHO surgical safety checklist and led by Dr. Siwan Thomas-Gibson (Clinical Lead for Endoscopy) and Dr. Manmeet Matharoo (Research Fellow)
- Poor hospital care 'puts many lives at risk' in developing world. BBC News. A new study published in the British Medical Journal has outlined for the first time the frequency and nature of harm to patients brought about by healthcare in developing countries. The study, sponsored by the World Health Organisation, involved researchers at the Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality at Imperial College London.
- Doctor-Tell Me the Truth BBC Radio 4. Professor James Reason discovers how encouraging doctors to admit their mistakes has improved patient safety.
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PRESS RELEASE: Major healthcare patient safety programme goes into next phase: Safer Clinical Systems
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The Designing Out Medical Error (DOME) project has recently featured on BBC Health News "The Hidden Dangers of Hospital Beds" and in the New Scientist
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QUASER (Quality and Safety in European Hospitals) is a three year project investigating the relationships between organisational and cultural factors and quality in European hospitals. Read about the project in the latest QUASER newsletter for Autumn 2011. View the Newsletter here
- The Human Element of Surgery. The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has published an Impact Case Study on the research that the CPSSQ is currently conducting on Teamwork in Surgery.
- View the Impact Case Study here:
