Mark Hughes

10 Year Health Plan: Patient Safety Learning’s response (14 August 2025) Patient Safety Learning's response to the 10 Year Health Plan

🗨️If the NHS is to become a fully digitally enabled service, patient safety will need to be at the heart of the introduction, implementation and operationalisation of new technologies and innovations🗨️

10 Year Health Plan: Our response⬇️
www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety

10 Year Health Plan: Patient Safety Learning’s response (14 August 2025) Patient Safety Learning's response to the 10 Year Health Plan

🗨️If the 10 Year Health Plan is to achieve its aims, we believe that patient safety must be at the heart of its implementation🗨️

10 Year Health Plan: @patientsafetylearning.org's response👇
www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety

Medication not given: discharge from an acute hospital to the community.

🆕 REPORT
➡️ Medication not given: discharge from an acute hospital to the community
📖 Read the report: buff.ly/WkzI48J
🎬 Watch a short summary video: buff.ly/YiREETQ

#PatientSafety #NHS #Healthcare

10 Year Health Plan: Patient Safety Learning’s response (14 August 2025) Patient Safety Learning's response to the 10 Year Health Plan

🆕Featured on the hub today, our full response to the 10 Year Heath Plan for England and why patient safety needs to be at the heart of its implementation. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #10YearHealthPlan #patientsafety

Addressing racial inequalities in paediatric diabetes Dita Aswani and Fulya Mehta are both consultant paediatricians and NHS England national advisors for Children and Young adults’ (CYA) diabetes. In this blog, they outline racial inequalities that pers...

Addressing racial inequalities in paediatric diabetes - a blog in our #WorldPatientSafetyDay2025 series 'Safe care for every newborn and every child' on the hub. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety

Department of Health and Social Care: Managing a robust and resilient supply of medicines (11 August 2025) This paper sets out the actions being taken by the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England to protect patients from medicines shortages.

Featured on the hub this week, a new paper from the Department of Health and Social Care setting out actions being taken to protect patients from medicines shortages. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety #medicationsafety

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🎬 Healthcare provision in prisons
🎬 Workforce and patient safety
🎬 Recognition of sepsis

Development of a competency framework for healthcare safety investigators: An E-Delphi study (3 August 2025) The authors of this study developed a competency framework for healthcare safety investigators

Development of a competency framework for healthcare safety investigators - an E-Delphi study added to the hub. www.pslhub.org/learn/invest... #patientsafety

A few photos of damselflies taken this weekend.

Evaluating gender bias in large language models in long-term care (11 August 2025) his study evaluates gender bias in summaries of long-term care records generated with two state-of-the-art, open-source large language models

Added to the hub today, a new study examining gender bias in summaries of long-term care records generated with Large Language Models. www.pslhub.org/learn/commis... #AI #digitalhealth #patientsafety

Corridor care and patient safety Corridor care is increasingly being used in the NHS as demand for emergency care grows and hospital departments struggle with patient numbers. In a series of blogs for the hub, we shine a light on som...

Corridor care can broadly be defined as care being provided to patients in corridors, non-clinical areas or unsuitable clinical areas because of a lack of hospital bed capacity. This blog series considers the key patient safety issues surrounding corridor care. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv...

A Starry Night Cracker and Emerald Swallowtail butterfly at the Horniman Museum today.

#StreetArt in London today

The Manta Ray That Eluded Science For 15 Years The newly described Mobula yarae joins a vulnerable group of rays facing threats like bycatch, boat strikes, and habitat loss.

The Manta Ray That Eluded Science For 15 Years. www.forbes.com/sites/meliss...

I'm speaking at HETT Show 2025, join me Register now

Our Chief Executive @helenh49.bsky.social will be one of the speakers at this year's HETT Show on the 7-8th October 2025 at ExCeL London. You can find out more about this event and how to register via the link below. invt.io/1txb2uaupl5 #HETT25

Patient barcode scanning in NHS hospitals: safety, snags and workarounds. A nurse’s perspective Claire Cox, Patient Safety Learning’s Associate Director, talks about the opportunities to improve patient safety and the risks associated with the use of barcode technology in healthcare

🗨️Policies, procedures and best practices often represent 'work as imagined', providing a framework for care delivery. However, frontline clinicians operate in dynamic environments where unexpected challenges arise.🗨️

A new blog featured on the hub today⬇️
www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety

Crackdown on unsafe cosmetic procedures to protect the public New measures to crack down on cowboy cosmetic procedures that have left people maimed, injured and in need of urgent NHS care will be introduced by the UK Government. Only qualified healthcare profess...

Featured on the hub this morning, the Department of Health and Social Care have announced new measures to crack down on unsafe cosmetic procedures that have left people maimed, injured and in need of urgent NHS care. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... #patientsafety

#StreetArt in London this morning.

🗨️To bridge the gap between imagined and actual work, healthcare teams need psychological safety—the confidence to speak up about risks, inefficiencies and errors without fear of punishment🗨️

New blog on the patient safety opportunities and risks associated with the barcode scanning in healthcare⬇️

Patient barcode scanning in NHS hospitals: safety, snags and workarounds. A nurse’s perspective Claire Cox, Patient Safety Learning’s Associate Director, talks about the opportunities to improve patient safety and the risks associated with the use of barcode technology in healthcare

🆕In a new blog on the hub today, our Associate Director @safetynurse999.bsky.social talks about the opportunities to improve patient safety and the risks associated with the use of barcode technology in healthcare. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety

SafetyNet seminar: When is it safer to ‘work around’ a protocol? Speaker: Dr Debbie Clark, Sheffield Hallam University For many years standardisation has been relied upon to improve patient safety through reducing variation in care processes. Despite this approach ...

Upcoming event featured on the hub:

▶️SafetyNet seminar: When is it safer to ‘work around’ a protocol? (Hosted by @nihrpsrcs.bsky.social‬)
🗓️Thursday 11 September 2025
⏰12.30-1.30pm BST

More details below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/events/event... #patientsafety

Addressing racial inequalities in paediatric diabetes Dita Aswani and Fulya Mehta are both consultant paediatricians and NHS England national advisors for Children and Young adults’ (CYA) diabetes. In this blog, they outline racial inequalities that pers...

The theme of this year's World Patient Safety Day on 17 September is “Safe care for every newborn and every child”. In this blog Dita Aswani & Fulya Mehta talk about tackling the racial inequalities that persist in paediatric diabetes. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety

A snapshot of my day trip to St Alban's today.

Wildflower Zandi Holup · Album · 2025 · 11 songs

Really enjoying Zandi Holup's debut album 'Wildflower' today. First heard her at Country 2 Country 2024 in London, she has a really raw, emotive voice that just grabs you. Would very much recommend. open.spotify.com/album/07IVi9...

Post-fall medical assessment Join the Royal College of Physicians during hashtag#FallsAwarenessWeek for the next National Audit of Inpatient Falls (hashtag#NAIF) webinar. The team are joined by guest speaker Dr Sarah Howie and NA...

Upcoming event featured on the hub today:

▶️ @rcphysicians.bsky.social‬ National Audit of Inpatient Falls webinar: Post-fall medical assessment - a new resource
🗓️ Wednesday 17 September 2025
⏰ 12-1pm

More details on the hub below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/events/event... #patientsafety

World Patient Safety Day 2025 This year’s World Patient Safety Day on 17 September is focused on the theme “Safe care for every newborn and every child”. This article explains the aims of the event and the areas it will cover.

Next month the sixth annual World Patient Safety Day takes place on Wednesday 17 September 2025. Find out more about this year's event in the article below⬇️
www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #WorldPatientSafetyDay #WPSD2025 #patientsafety

Dementia patients being forced to wait up to two years for a diagnosis The report’s findings point towards a ‘government failure to address the growing demand for dementia services’

Dementia patients being forced to wait up to two years for a diagnosis, damning study reveals. www.independent.co.uk/news/health/... (via @the-independent.com)

Hospitals did not capture half of patient harm events, limiting information needed to make care safer (29 July 2025) This report traced harm events identified in a 2022 report on the incidence of harm in hospitals to examine whether hospitals captured those events in their incident reporting or other surveillance sy...

🗨️Our review found that these systems did not capture 49 percent of harm events that occurred among hospitalized Medicare patients in October 2018.🗨️

A new report by the US Office of Inspector General added to the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/organi... #patientsafety

On the way back from work today in London spotted a timely reminder that Sabrina's new album is out next month.