The document discusses the importance of implementing a standardized early warning system in healthcare to enhance patient safety and prevent harm. Experts highlight that effective monitoring of deteriorating patients can significantly reduce mortality rates and improve patient outcomes. An integrated approach combining electronic recording of observations and appropriate staffing is proposed to ensure timely and accurate patient care.

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GROUNDVISION
A Vision for Patient safety

3. First
DO NO HARM
Second
THROUGH INACTION ALLOW A
PATIENT TO COME TO A HARM*
*Failure to rescue a deteriorating patient.

4. ‟Developing and adopting a
standardised early warning
system will be one of the most
significant developments in
health care in the next decade”
Professor Derek Bell, chair of the NEWS
educational subgroup

5. ‟There is nothing nurses and
doctors should prioritise more
than patient safety, and this
system, if implemented across
the board, will be a great leap
forward for patient care. ”
RCN director of nursing and service
delivery, Janet Davies

6. ‟ Many changes in health care
are incremental but this new
National Early Warning Score has
the potential to transform
patient safety in our hospitals
and improve patient outcomes, it
is hugely important”
Professor Bryan Williams, chair of the
working party

7. ‟One consistent theme
throughout almost all of the
organisations reviewed was
the management of complex
deteriorating patients and the
monitoring of Early Warning
Scores. The basic failure of
observation at ward level
gives rise to multiple
problems following on from
this, most notably for some of
the organisations an increase
in renal failure and
nosocomial pneumonia.”
Keogh Report 2013

8. ‟Nurse staffing levels and skill
mix will appropriately reflect
the caseload and the severity
of illness of the patients they
are caring for and be
transparently reported by
trust boards.”
Keogh Report 2013

9. ‟All trusts should rapidly
embed the use of an early
warning system and have
clinically appropriate
escalation procedures for
deteriorating, high-risk
patients - in particular at
weekends and out of hours.
Commissioners and
regulators should seek
assurance that such systems
are in place.”
Keogh Report 2013

10. ‟6,000 deaths
could be
prevented
by using the
National Early
Warning Score”

11. One study carried out by a trust found a
43% error rate in Early Warning Scores
when using a paper based method for
data collection.
Another Study by
Mohammed, Hayton, Clements, Smith
and Prytherch demonstrated 40% error
rate

12. A safe ward requires
patients to have
the right observations
taken at the right time
and with the
appropriate staffing and
skill mix based on
patient acuity and
dependency.

13. Our solution recognises the need for
a holistic approach to observations
that takes into account patient acuity
and staffing.
Electronic recording of observations
ensures the right observations at
the right time and our integrated
acuity based model ensures there is
the right level of staffing and skill mix
to perform these observations.

14.  Lower Hospital Standardised Mortality
 Reduced Length of Stay
 Increased level of compliance and transparency
 Improved Accuracy
 Reduced Nurse Sensitive patient safety incidents
 Reduced cost.

15.  Supports current NHS infrastructure.
 Access from any web enabled device.
 Local deployment or Hosted.
 Integrated or Standalone.
 SNCT or local variant.
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