Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSChange one thing, and help improve patient safety today
If you could change one thing to improve patient safety, what would it be? We’re asking everyone committed to patient safety to tell us their thoughts.
The Change One Thing campaign is asking all nurses to come up with an idea to improve patient safety. It is a great opportunity for the nursing profession to save patients’ lives and help shape the way services are provided.
The results of this campaign will be used as a new interactive part of the Patient Safety Congress and to focus attention on the topics that really matter to you and your patients.
Click here to tell us your idea.
Change One Thing - ideas from the NHS big-hitters
Bernard Crump, Chief Executive NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement:
“The one thing I would like to see changed is that every NHS organisations’ formal board meeting would start with an item from a patient talking about their experience of care. The tone is set for the meeting around quality of care given – it is one thing that doesn’t cost anything but would make an enormous difference.”
Jim Easton, NHS National Director for Improvement and Efficiency, Department of Health:
“In terms of patient safety, right now a lot of people are looking at the numbers for preventable thrombolysis. I want everyone to get the right thrombolytic care, which would by the way also save money.”
Janice Stevens, Associate Director, HCAI & Cleanliness Division and DSSA Programme, Department of Health:
“No more falls.”
Dr Suzette Woodward, Director of Implementation, Patient Safety First Campaign
“Set up communities of interest for individuals, teams or organisations undertaking improvements to share what they are doing, to connect with others doing the same thing, to stop duplication, and to create a collective knowledge on what works and what doesn’t.”
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Readers' comments (2)
Anonymous | 10-Feb-2010 9:18 pm
Bring back Wards own housekeeping staff instead of out scourcing it. Whe I firststarted nursing the housekeeping staff felt like aprt of the team and the wards were spotessly clean. Some cleaning staff now adays do not care. I had an experience where I was a patient in a large teaching hospital There was blood on the floor and 3 days later it was still there. Also a lot of the white collar staff need to go and themonies spent on hiring staff for the wards.
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Anonymous | 13-Feb-2010 4:54 pm
being able to refer elderly patients in the community who are at risk of self neglect etc to social services even if they refuse to sign a consent form - this is the problem I have encountered in my area of employment. It seems we have to wait for an accident (or incident) to happen.
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