Patient safety Patient safety is the avoidance of unintended or unexpected harm to people during the provision of health care

More than one million people use the NHS each day, and making sure they receive safe and reliable care is essential.

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OASI Care Bundle: A multi-centre quality improvement project to reduce the incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injury

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This project aimed to reduce rates of obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASI) following childbirth through use of an evidence-based care bundle, supported by an awareness campaign and multidisciplinary...

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26 March 2017

Context: Performance measures are increasingly widely used in health care and have an important role in quality. However, field studies of what organizations are doing when they collect and report per...

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24 March 2017

Background: The burden of disease from cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains significant in England. Blood pressure remains an important risk factor. Health gain through public health measures and impr...

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24 March 2017

Objective: To identify strategies to facilitate the sustainability of a quality and safety improvement collaborative: the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI) and its successes. Design: A qualitative in...

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24 March 2017

Background: It is recognised that involving lay people with research in a meaningful rather than tokenistic way is both important and challenging. In a recent health services research study addressing...

Journal article

22 March 2017

Background: Quality and safety improvement initiatives in healthcare often display two disconcerting effects. The first is a failure to outperform the secular trend. The second is the decline effect,...

Journal article

22 March 2017

Effective training has been shown to improve perinatal care and outcome, decrease litigation claims and reduce midwifery sick leave. To be effective, training should be incentivised, in a realistic co...

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22 March 2017

This paper has been developed from a conference presentation given by Professor Alison Holmes at the IPS Learning Labs launch event (2015). In it the implementation of research into clinical practice ...

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22 March 2017

Objective: To assess the usability of virtual-reality (VR) simulation for obstetric ultrasound trainees. Methods: Twenty-six participants were recruited: 18 obstetric ultrasound trainees (with li...

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22 March 2017

Recent decades have seen the influence of the professions decline. Lately, commentators have suggested a revived role for a “new” professionalism in ensuring and enhancing high-quality health care in ...

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22 March 2017

Patient and public involvement is fundamental in healthcare and many methods attempt to facilitate this engagement. The present study investigated use of computer-generated environments known as “v...

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Patient safety Patient safety is the avoidance of unintended or unexpected harm to people during the provision of health care

OASI Care Bundle: A multi-centre quality improvement project to reduce the incidence of obstetric anal sphincter injury

What Counts? An ethnographic study of infection data reported to a patient safety program

Modelling the impact on avoidable cardiovascular disease burden and costs of interventions to lower systolic blood pressure in the England population

Strategies for sustaining a quality improvement collaborative and its patient safety gains

Patient and public involvement in data collection for health services research: a descriptive study

Explaining Matching Michigan: an ethnographic study of a patient safety program

Simulation: improving patient outcomes

Lessons in implementing infection prevention

Usability of virtual-reality simulation training in obstetric ultrasonography: a prospective cohort study

Realising the 'third logic' in contemporary health care

Using Virtual Worlds for Patient and Public Engagement

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