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Patient Safety Learning
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Patient Safety Learning is a charity and independent voice for improving patient safety. 🔗Our website: https://www.patientsafetylearning.org/ 🔗the hub, our platform to share learning for patient safety: https://www.pslhub.org/
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 58m
New on the hub today - AI, health, and health care today and tomorrow: The @jama.com Summit Report on Artificial Intelligence. www.pslhub.org/learn/commis... #patientsafety
AI, health, and health care today and tomorrow: The JAMA Summit Report on Artificial Intelligence (13 October 2025)
This article summarises issues discussed at The JAMA Summit on AI concerning how health and health care AI should be developed, evaluated, regulated, disseminated, and monitored.
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🆕How one woman’s missed referrals exposed a systemic gap in hereditary cancer care: Why I'm campaigning for Rachel's Rule - a blog by Stuart Ball. www.pslhub.org/learn/improv... #patientsafety
How one woman’s missed referrals exposed a systemic gap in hereditary cancer care: Why I'm campaigning for Rachel's Rule
Stuart shares Rachel's story and tells us why he is campaigning for Rachel's Rule—a call for a system safeguard that ensures hereditary risks are not missed
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 18h
Navigating health and social care systems can be confusing and frustrating for patients and carers. In this blog Emma Sheffield, Communications and Marketing Manager at the Patients Association, explains how their free helpline is helping support people. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
How the Patients Association helpline can help you navigate your care
How the Patients Association helpline can help you navigate your care
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 19h
Upcoming event featured on the hub:

▶️Connected Health & Care Summit 2025
🗓️Tuesday 21st to Wednesday 22nd October
📍Hilton Birmingham Metropole

More details on the hub below⬇️
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Connected Health & Care Summit 2025
The Connected Health & Care Summit will feature inspiring, interactive, and thought-provoking sessions from industry leaders, and keynote speakers along with users of the UK's and the world’s most imp...
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 20h
Today is World Thrombosis Day. This blog on the hub explains the dangers of deep vein thrombosis and why it is important for patients and staff to be aware of the risk factors. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #WorldThrombosisDay #patientsafety
Deep vein thrombosis: understanding and managing your risk
In this blog, Jo Jerrome, CEO of Thrombosis UK, explains the dangers of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and why it is important for patients and staff to be aware of the risk factors.
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 22h
New on the hub today - @who.int: Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report 2025 (13 October 2025)
This new WHO report presents a global analysis of antibiotic resistance prevalence and trends
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 1d
News article on the hub today - National scheme to support families after baby deaths faces axe (via @hsj.co.uk). www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/...
National scheme to support families after baby deaths faces axe
An “overwhelmingly valued” pilot support scheme for families who have lost a child before or shortly after birth has been paused to new referrals and is being “brought to a close”, HSJ has learned. Th...
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VTE Specialist Network @vsnuk1.bsky.social · 1d
It's World Thrombosis Day
Did you know that a patient with active cancer has a 4 times higher risk of developing a blood clot?
Learn to recognise the signs and symptoms of VTE and seek early medical attention if you develop of them - VTE can be fatal if you delay seeking help
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 1d
Published on the hub this month, a new interview in our 'Speaking up for patient safety' series with Michael Swinn, a consultant urological surgeon in Surrey. www.pslhub.org/learn/cultur... #SpeakUpWeek #patientsafety #speakingup
Speaking up for patient safety: Michael Swinn in conversation with Peter Duffy and Helen Hughes
In this episode of Patient Safety Learning's Speaking up series, Peter and Helen speak to Michael Swinn
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 1d
Today is #WorldThrombosisDay. This Top Picks article pulls together resources, blogs and reports for patients and healthcare professionals, which focus on how to recognise venous thromboembolism and how to improve patient safety.

Link: www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #WTDay25
An image of the red and blue logo for World Thrombosis Day on the 13 October 2025.
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 2d
Today is #WorldHospiceandPalliativeCareDay.

Featured on the hub, a Top Picks article which pulls together several resources, blogs and reports in relation to hospices, palliative care and patient safety www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #WHPCDay25 #patientsafety
Top picks: 15 resources about hospice and palliative care
A collection of hub resources about hospice and palliative care
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 3d
Featured on the hub for #WorldMentalHealthDay, a set of resources, blogs and reports focused on improving patient safety across different aspects of mental health services and also supporting staff with their own mental health and wellbeing. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
Top picks: Mental health resources for patients and staff
hub resources on mental health
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 3d
News article on the hub today - More than 153,000 people harmed in Canada's hospitals last year, study finds. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... #patientsafety
More than 153,000 people harmed in Canada's hospitals last year, study finds
One in 17 hospitalizations in 2024-2025 — representing more than 153,000 people — resulted in someone experiencing a potentially preventable harm such as a drug error, hospital-acquired infection, a “...
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 3d
In a new blog on the hub this week we reflect on the latest report from the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB), which looks at patient safety incident investigation under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). pslhub.org/learn/invest... #patientsafety
Investigating under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF): Patient Safety Learning’s response to HSSIB investigation
Patient Safety Learning sets out its reflections on HSSIB's investigating under the PSIRF report
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 3d
News article on the hub - @pscommissioner.bsky.social pushes government on valproate redress almost two years after report (via @pharmaj.bsky.social). www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... #patientsafety
Patient Safety Commissioner pushes government on valproate redress almost two years after report
In a statement made to The Pharmaceutical Journal, Henrietta Hughes has urged the government to provide a full response to recommendations made in her February 2024 report. The Hughes Report, publishe...
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 3d
New blog on the hub this week - Waste not, harm not: The moral case for efficiency and productivity in healthcare. www.pslhub.org/learn/commis... #patientsafety
Waste not, harm not: The moral case for efficiency and productivity in healthcare (part 1)
This is the first of three articles in which Professor Clive Deadman argues that driving modernisation and productivity improvements in clinical care is a moral necessity
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 4d
Article added to the hub today - Here’s the direct effect of our NHS blame culture: babies die. Tragedy after tragedy, it can’t go on - Jeremy Hunt. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Here’s the direct effect of our NHS blame culture: babies die. Tragedy after tragedy, it can’t go on - Jeremy Hunt (The Guardian, 9th October 2025)
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 4d
Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay.

On the hub below is a set of resources, blogs and reports focused on improving #patientsafety across different aspects of mental health services and also supporting staff with their own mental health & wellbeing. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...
Top picks: Mental health resources for patients and staff
hub resources on mental health
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 4d
🗨️Ultimately this initiative must be judged on its implementation and effectiveness in reducing avoidable harm.🗨️

Investigating under the PSIRF: Our response to the Health Services Safety Investigations Body's latest report. www.pslhub.org/learn/invest... #patientsafety
Investigating under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF): Patient Safety Learning’s response to HSSIB investigation
Patient Safety Learning sets out its reflections on HSSIB's investigating under the PSIRF report
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 4d
Article added to the hub today - AI-powered nursing handoffs: Introducing and evaluating the patient report template. www.pslhub.org/learn/commis... #AI #digitalhealth
AI-powered nursing handoffs: Introducing and evaluating the patient report template (10 July 2025)
Study looking at the perceptions of nurses related to artificial intelligence use in their day-to-day work.
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 4d
In a new interview on the hub, Michael Swinn speaks to Helen Hughes and Peter Duffy about how he and his colleagues became concerned about patient care and the struggles they encountered trying to persuade hospital managers to listen.

Link: www.pslhub.org/learn/cultur... #patientsafety
On a green background is a light green speech bubble that contains the following text "I didn't want him to think that I was the cause of the problem after all; that fed the narrative that the medical director was being spun from the other side... ". In the bottom right corner of the image is a small green logo that says "patient safety learning, the hub". In the bottom left corner of the image is the text: Michael Swinn, Consultant Urological Surgeon, Speaking up for patient safety series.
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 4d
Modelling anaesthesia medication delivery using the SEIPS 101 tools - an article via Applied Ergonomics added to the hub. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #patientsafety
Modeling anesthesia medication delivery using the SEIPS 101 tools (October 2025)
SEIPS 101 tools provide a series of practice-orientated techniques to apply systems model in real clinical practice, potentially offering a straightforward approach to mapping perioperative medication...
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 5d
News article on the hub today - Top 10 trust served warning notice as quality ‘declines significantly’. www.pslhub.org/blogs/entry/... (via @hsj.co.uk)
Top 10 trust served warning notice as quality ‘declines significantly’
A trust ranked in the top 10 of the government’s new provider league table for the mental health and community sector has been served with a warning notice after a Care Quality Commission inspection f...
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Helen Hughes @helenh49.bsky.social · 5d
Much more needed for effective #psirf implementation. This matters. We need to learn why avoidable harm happens and act on it. Good report by #hssib and please see our response from Patient Safety Learning
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Patient Safety Learning @patientsafetylearning.org · 5d
🆕In this article we reflect on today's new report by the @hssib.bsky.social, which looks at patient safety incident investigation under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). www.pslhub.org/learn/invest...
Investigating under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF): Patient Safety Learning’s response to HSSIB investigation
Patient Safety Learning sets out its reflections on HSSIB's investigating under the PSIRF report
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