By admin | February 16, 2009
April 30th – 1st May at the ICC Birmingham
The speakers for the annual Patient Safety Congress meeting have been announced.
Last years congress was an amazing success and there was even an impromptu visit by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. This year it is hoped that it is going to be bigger and better!
Site sponsors Brenmoor will be attending and exhibiting and the list of speakers this year include..
Key International Speakers
Lucian Leape – Professor of Health Policy from the Harvard School of Public Health.
Peter Pronovost MD – Peter was listed in Time Magazine 2008 list of the worlds most influential people because of his work in Patient Safety.
David Westfall Bates MD – David is widely seen as the worlds leading expert on technology and patient safety. Read More »
By admin | January 26, 2009
The NPSA released their long awaited document on wristbanding patients in 2007.
On publication the NPSA said “Wristbands are used to identify hospital inpatients. Over the 12 month period February 2006 to January 2007, the NPSA received 24,382 reports of patients being mismatched to their care. It is estimated that more than 2,900 of these patient identification incidents related to wristbands and their use.”
click here to download the report or for a more detail visit the NPSA website
By admin | January 26, 2009
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) issued a patient safety alert earlier this month. It requires all healthcare organisations to implement the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist for every patient undergoing a surgical procedure. The final implementation date is February 2010. This follows dramatic results from a year long global pilot of the WHO checklist in eight countries, including St Mary’s Hospital in London, which saw surgical deaths and complications reduce by one third when the checklist was used. Read More »
By admin | January 26, 2009
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We asked our main site sponsor’s Brenmoor how hospitals were moving towards summer 2009 when the wristband regulations come into force. Read More »
By admin | January 21, 2009
The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has significantly improved patient safety with an electronic blood tracking system from Olympus. The Olympus BloodTrack system provides full end-to-end control and audit of the blood transfusion process with correct cross checking of the patient’s barcoded wristband with the blood at the bedside. The wristbands used are designed and manufactured by Brenmoor in the UK.
This has enabled the Trust to achieve 100% compliance with National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) guidelines for patient identification. Read More »
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