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How can we ensure clinical safety when digitising PIFU?
Read Dr Jo Garland’s views on how digitising PIFU and rolling it out nationally will help create clinical bandwidth to see the patients that really need it, when they need it. Crucially Jo writes about the clinical risks can be mitigated with a digital tool like Infinity.
What makes a digital solution fit-for-purpose?
From the lead Neurosurgeon at London’s busiest hospital, to the Hospital Porter in rural Yorkshire, fit-for-purpose digital healthcare solutions need to be available for all healthcare staff. Getting integration, information security, and patient safety right is critical to making digital healthcare solutions safe and fit-for-purpose.
WhatsApp being down doesn’t have to be a patient safety issue
When WhatsApp went down, a tweet from an NHS doctor revealed the serious and potentially dangerous consequences of losing it for just a few hours. Dr Jo Garland discusses how to ensure losing WhatsApp isn’t a patient safety issue in the future and shares a crucial alternative to instant messaging apps.
Why is the NHS still using paper?
In 2013, the UK Government set out a goal that would see a paperless NHS by 2018. Not only was a migration away from paper towards digital tools going to save the British taxpayer over £1.8 billion, it was also going to maximise efficiency and promote better outcomes for all involved.
Why the NHS needs to move to digital task management now
Following a year of unthinkable strain on the NHS, there is consensus now, more than ever, that healthcare workers deserve more support. It’s clear to me that a move towards the digitisation of clinical and operational tasks will assist in facilitating what has now become a necessity.
Patient experience - a building block for digital healthcare
The experience of my friend, and an NHS patient, Sue, has reinforced my view that there has never been a more urgent time to upgrade the tools staff are using to make their jobs less complicated and stressful, and more efficient.
Five ways to improve patient safety in hospitals
NHS England’s Deputy Chief Nursing Officer recently said that patient safety “is the whole point of healthcare”, yet 40% of patients globally are harmed in primary and outpatient healthcare and 15% of hospital expenditure in OECD countries - which include the UK - are as a result of adverse events.