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Title: Safer Systems for Safer Healthcare


1
Safer Systems for Safer Healthcare
  • Dr. Maureen Baker CBE DM FRCGP
  • Clinical Director for Patient Safety
  • NHS Connecting for Health

2
Overview
  • The NHS
  • The NPfIT
  • Development of patient safety movement
  • Safety management systems
  • NHS CFH Clinical Safety Management System
  • Experience so far
  • Next steps

3
The UK National Health Service
  • UK population 60 Million
  • Almost 1 Million consultations with GPs every
    working day
  • 100,000 people in hospital every working day
  • NHS covers every health sector
  • 4 country model
  • 750 Million prescription items from general
    practice in England per annum

4
The National Programme for IT in the NHS in
England
  • Established 2002
  • Has a number of central features and programmes
    (National Spine Choose and Book GP2GP National
    Care Record Service Picture Archive and
    Communications Service Electronic Transfer of
    Prescriptions)
  • Local Service Providers
  • Estimated cost US25 Billion over 10 years
    (contracts, training and implementation)
  • Being delivered by NHS Connecting for Health

5
Some definitions
  • Patient Safety freedom from accidental harm
    to individuals receiving healthcare
  • Patient Safety Incident an episode when
    something goes wrong in healthcare resulting in
    potential or actual harm to patients

6
NPSA Report on Safety in NPfIT
  • National Patient Safety Agency established 2001
  • Report commissioned 2004
  • Conducted by NPSA Risk Advisor

7
Report Findings
  • Not identifying safety as a benefit to drive the
    programme
  • No formal risk assessment
  • No formal safety management system
  • Reliance on clinicians to instinctively address
    patient safety problems
  • NPfIT not addressing safety in structured,
    pro-active manner and other safety critical
    industries would

8
Safety Critical Industries with Safety Approach
Aviation Railways Oil and Gas Construction Nuclear
Military
9
NHS CFH Clinical Safety Management System
  • Based on principles of IEC 61508
  • Light touch, yet robust
  • Three key pieces of documentation
  • Practical and pragmatic in place for almost 4
    years
  • Supplemented by established Safety Incident
    Management Process

10
NHS CFH CSMS Deliverables
  • Hazard assessment
  • Safety case
  • Safety closure report
  • Clinical Authority to Release (CATR)
  • (Includes caveats)

11
What we are trying to achieve?
  • Safer Care, i.e.
  • x gt y ab

Risk
Baker, M et al, Safer IT in a Safer NHS Account
of a Partnership, The British Healthcare
Computing Information Management, Vol. 23 No. 7
Sept 2006
12
Safety Incident Management System
  • Incidents related to Health IT reported and
    logged
  • Assessed and managed by Clinical Safety Group
    (clinicians and safety engineers)
  • Aim to make safe (remove potential for harm)
    with 24 hours
  • Around 430 incidents reported since 2005
  • 97 made safe within 24 hours

13
NHS IT What can go wrong?
  • Patient identification (wrong notes, wrong
    results, wrong procedure)
  • Data migration (re-start discontinued drugs,
    incorrect preservation of meaning)
  • Data mapping (mapped to non-identical
    preparation, eg long-acting or slow release)
  • Data corruption (over-writing of info on NHS
    Spine)

14
Safety Workstreams in NHS CFH
  • Safe IT systems (as safe as design and
    forethought will allow)
  • Safety Incident Management Process
  • Training for accreditation and safe
    implementation
  • Technology for patient safety

15
Accredited Clinician Programme
  • Dedicated training in principles of safety and
    risk as applied to Health IT
  • In 4 years trained over 550 delegates, approx
    60 are clinicians
  • Clinicians must be registered with appropriate
    regulatory body
  • Supports clinical input to activity by
    appropriately trained and qualified clinicians

16
Passing the Safety Baton
  • NHS CFH (and Software Providers)
  • Support from
  • Clinical Safety Group
  • Clinical Authority to Release
  • Implementing organisation (Hospitals Pharmacists,
    GPs etc.)
  • Support from
  • Internal Risk Team

Safer Design and Development
Safer Implementation
Passing the Baton Ownership passed from NHS CFH
to NHS
17
Implementation Network
  • Aimed at individuals in NHS Trusts with direct
    responsibility for significant IT implementations
  • Develop a community of interest
  • Explicitly designed to facilitate networking and
    peer support
  • Dedicated website
  • Buddying
  • Could be used in support of User Standard

18
Technology for Patient Safety
  • Right Patient Right Care (tracking technologies
    RFID wristband datasets NHS number)
  • Safer prescribing (prompts alerts, tallman)
  • Safer handover (core dataset)
  • Electronic risk assessment tool for VTE
  • Tracking of results
  • Deteriorating patients

19
Design and the NHS
The NHS is seriously out of step with modern
thinking and practice with regards to design .
And also fails to understand what design thinking
can bring to an organisation . A direct
consequence of this has been a significant
incidence of avoidable risk and
error Department of Health Design Council,
Design for Patient Safety Report
20
Building a House
21
Next steps
  • Focus on design and human factors for inherently
    safe systems
  • Support implementation of standards (NHS and
    international) for suppliers and users
  • Passing the safety baton
  • Identification and safe implementation of
    technology for safer care

22
National Programme for IT in NHS
The National Programme is not just an IT
programme, but a patient safety and clinical
governance programme Gordon Hextall, Chief
Operating Officer NHS Connecting for Health
23
Conclusion
  • Healthcare is a safety critical industry
  • IT systems dont deliver care, but are used by
    clinicians in the delivery of care
  • Good safety practice requires proactive work
    systems as safe as design and forethought will
    allow
  • Also reactive systems to detect and manage errors
  • All encompassed in CSMS and within emerging
    Standards
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