Soon after we went into UK lockdown in March I started to feel rough. I was tired, irritable, and was suffering from dreadful headaches. It was a few days before I realised that I was missing my daily Starbucks. It didn’t take too much time for me to adjust to
Continue readingCOVID has been a traumatic experience for many who work in the NHS. Battlefield scenes, redeployment and it can seem there is little end in sight. However, there have been positives. Improved team work, new ways of delivering care and better use of technology. How can we use this learning?
Continue readingIt’s hard to believe that this time last year we hadn’t heard the word COVID-19. And most of us hadn’t heard of Zoom or Teams. The Improvement Cymru team were working hard on our new brand launch and getting excited about the year to come. Then the pandemic hit. As
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This year’s theme for World Patient Safety Day is the welfare and safety of healthcare workers. It recognises that working in stressful environments can make health workers more prone to errors, which can lead to patient harm. Quality and Safety is a theme running through all the DU’s work; this
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Today is WHO World Patient Safety Day. At the present time patient safety is gaining perhaps more attention than ever given the need for us to protect patients from the harms of COVID-19. Highlighting World Patient Safety, therefore, seems timely. The theme of this year’s WHO World Patient Safety Day
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In celebration of World Patient Safety Day, Iain Roberts, Head of Programmes at Improvement Cymru, shares a personal reflection on patient safety. For any parent reading this you are probably aware of ‘Operation Ouch’ on CBeebies. It’s a medical show for kids hosted by two doctors, Dr Chris and Dr Xand
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