Within GP practices, just as in any organisation, a better safety culture is associated with greater satisfaction and engagement from staff – the safer the culture, the better the care. This presentation aims to promote a safety culture in the primary care setting through the use of incident reporting, while supporting the GP practices involved in cohort 2 with tools and training in quality improvement methodology.
4. A promise to learn – a commitment to act
“The most important single
change in the NHS in response to
this report would be for it to
become, more than ever before, a
system devoted to continual
learning and improvement of care,
top to bottom and end to end.”
Don Berwick, August 2013
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6. WE BELIEVE: A MANIFESTO FOR PATIENT SAFETY IN PRIMARY CARE
FROM SMALL STEPS BIG CHANGE CAN OCCUR
PRIMARY CARE IS THE HE OF THE NHS
WORKING TOGETHER WE CAN MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN FASTER AND BETTER
SAFETY IN NUMBERSBETTER SAFETY CULTURE = BETTER, SAFER CARE FOR PATIENTS
WE CAN’T CHANGE THE HUMAN CONDITIONS, BUT WE CAN CHANGE THE CONDITIONS HUMANS WORK IN
HEAR THE VOICE OF THE PATIENT BE PART OF THE CIRCLE OF CARE
NEVER STOP LEARNING & EXPERIMENTING
REPORTING AND LEARNING FROM INCIDENTS WILL CREATE THE CONDITIONS FOR SAFER PATIENT CARE
CELEBRATE SUCCESS SHARE AND LEARN BEST PRACTICE
WEST OF ENGLAND ACADEMIC HEALTH SCIENCE NETWORK PRIMARY CARE COLLABORATIVE
7. Primary Care Collaborative
Develop a safety
culture that
engages with
patients and staff
to support the
delivery of safe
and reliable care
in primary care
teams.
11. What does better look like?
Pathological
• Who cares if we
are not caught?
Reactive
• Safety is
important we do
lots of it after
every accident
Calculative
• We have
systems in place
to manage all
hazards
Proactive
• We work on
problems that
we still find
Generative
• Safety is built
into the way we
work and think
12. 69 year old lady
Jan 2013: Coded as MGUS, also primary hyperparathyroidism
Feb 2013: Haematologist A&G with regular f/u bloods
March 2013: Shared plan with patient, info printed
Sept 2013: Repeat bloods
Dec 2013: parathyroid surgery
Jan 2014 – March 2016: 9 contacts with various GPs
April 2016: Raised proteins, likely multiple myeloma, 2ww
referral
April 2016 SEA and reported to NRLS
31. Person-centred view
Perfection Myth. If I try harder, I won’t make a mistake.
The Punishment Myth. If we punish a person who makes
an error, they won’t make the error again.
32. Systems view
Perfection Myth. If I try harder, I won’t make a mistake.
The Punishment Myth. If we punish a person who makes
an error, they won’t make the error again.
Johnson’s Substitution Test. Could some equally
motivated, comparably qualified staff member have made
the same error under similar circumstances?
39. Building reliable systems
• Design needs to be woven into working practices, with
repeated cycles of adaptation, small steps.
• Find what works, adapt or abandon what does not.
• When you know what works on a small scale, look to
implement more widely.
• Ask the people who are on the receiving end of care
whether the new methods result in good care.
• Open culture, flat hierarchies, challenge is not a threat
but a source of new ideas and improvement
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42. Enabling performance
Saying yes to the mess
Fostering diversity
Challenging habits and
assumptions
Motivating people
Reducing power
differentials
Managing
performance
Decision-making
Simple structures
Effective procedures
Monitoring and
coordinating
Providing direction
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50. The PDSA Cycle for Learning and Improvement
Plan
• Objective
• Questions &
predictions
• Plan to carry out:
Who?When?
How? Where?
Do
• Carry out plan
• Document
problems
• Begin data
analysis
Act
• Ready to
implement?
• Try something
else?
• Next cycle
Study
• Complete data
analysis
• Compare to
predictions
• Summarize
What will happen
if we try
something
different?
Let’s try it!Did it
work?
What’s
next?
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54. Repeated Use of the PDSA Cycle for Testing
Hunches
Theories
Ideas
Changes That Result in
Improvement
Very Small
Scale Test
Follow-up
Tests
Wide-Scale Tests of Change
Implementation of Change
What are we trying to
accomplish?
How will we know that a
change is an improvement?
What change can we make that
will result in improvement?
Model for Improvement
Sequential building of
knowledge under a wide range
of conditions
Spreading
AP
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AP
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A
P
D
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AP
DS
A
P
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A P
DS
Sustaining the gains
55. Example PDSA Testing Ramps
advanced care planning
A P
S D
A P
S D
Cycle 1A: 11/02/14 Identification patients by respiratory FY1 by
putting a Q beside their name on ward board and handover sheets
Cycle 1B: 3/03/14 Teaching the other side of the ward- gastro
FY1’s
Cycle 1D: 24/04/14 “re-inform &
support” with Hannah & thank you
cookies
Cycle 1C: 14/04/14 disseminate the Q project-
targeted 5 medical wards
a) sign sheet b) Cert to do one
c) Cert to teach one
Cycle 1E: 7/05/14 Consultant lead
to boost confidence in identifying
Q patients
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“What is the variation in one system over time?” Walter
A. Shewhart - early 1920’s, Bell Laboratories
time
UCL
Every process displays variation:
• Controlled variation
stable, consistent pattern of variation
“chance”, constant causes
• Special cause variation
“assignable”
pattern changes over time
LCL
Static View
StaticView
Dynamic View
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62. Probability of a “trend”
Why do we need 5 data points for a trend?
What is the probability of a coin landing heads or tails?
One head or tail .5
.5 x .5 = .25
.5 x .5 x .5 = .125
.5 x .5 x .5 x .5 = .0625
.5 x .5 x .5 x .5 x .5 = .03125
.5 x .5 x .5 x .5 x .5 x .5 = .015625
73. Why do things go wrong and
how can we make them right?
Nathalie Delaney
74. Swiss cheese
Although many
layers of defence
lie between
hazards and
accidents, there
are flaws in each
layer that, if
aligned, can allow
the adverse event
to occur.
75. “For a long time, people were saying
that most accidents were due to human
error. And this is true in a sense, but it’s
not very helpful. It’s a bit like saying
that falls are due to gravity”
Prof. Trevor Kletz
76. What makes your working day easier
or more difficult?
Good/ poor communication
Good/ poor leadership
Good/ poor teamwork
Good/ poor organisation
Good/ poor attitude
Positivity/ Negativity
Challenges
Too much/ not enough
information
No thanks/ praise/ feedback
• Conflict
• Morale
• Evolving plans
• Repetition
• Changes
• Stress
• Breaks
77.
78. “Workplaces and
organizations are
easier to manage
than the minds of
individuals workers.
You cannot change
the human condition,
but you can change
the conditions
under which people
work”
James Reason
86. Safety Culture survey
Online, anonymous survey
Opportunity to tailor to meet your needs
Debrief with core team
Optional facilitated debrief with wider team
Repeat survey after 12 months
99. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
100. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
Safe Practice Framework
for
General Practice
Lesley Mackenzie, Patient Safety Programme Manager
Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Primary Care Collaborative Cohort 2 Launch
24th May 2017
101. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
To develop a safe practice framework which will
support staff in the delivery of safe care in General
Practice.
To raise staff awareness of
patient safety.
To support staff to determine why
and where improvement is
required in patient safety.
Our vision
102. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
• The safe practice framework was developed by a number of GPs and
Primary Care Commissioners and agreed by Wessex Patient Safety
Collaborative [WPSC] Primary Care Forum.
• Test specification and measurement strategy was developed to measure
the impact of any change.
• The framework was tested by GP
practices.
• Framework was reviewed following feedback
and amended.
How?
103. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
• A voluntary self assessment tool which aims to assess the maturity and
robustness of the patient safety systems.
• It is presented in 2 levels; good practice and outstanding practice.
• Resources about patient safety are available via links to support staff
development and understanding of patient safety.
• When completed the framework identifies
process & systems that are working well
and those which may need improvement.
The framework
104. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
• Feedback itself is crucial to ensure the framework is useful for you.
• The feedback we received;
• Most useful when completed as a team.
• Each team member had ownership of the good
practice that was identified and wanted to take
responsibility for what needed to change.
• Local Medical Council [LMC] Chief Executive
saw value in the framework.
• Rewritten to reflect Key Lines of Enquiry and as a 2 stage approach.
• Not an assurance tool.
Feedback!
105. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
• Concerns about duplication dispelled.
• Offered a planned approach to the quality work in the practice.
• The process of completing the framework as a team;
• generated healthy discussion
• raised awareness about patient safety
• started conversations
• provided an opportunity to celebrate what
was working well
• offered a shared understanding of what was still required
• encouraged the team to take ownership
The outcome
106. Wessex Patient Safety Collaborative
Connecting and sharing across Wessex to improve patient safety
• West of England is using the framework for your collaborative.
• Wessex keen to extend the testing phase.
• We are assessing;
• Ease of using the framework
• Content
• Impact of using the framework
• We will be seeking brief feedback
on these 3 areas to influence and
improve the design of the
framework.
Working in partnership
108. Thinking and Linking
What has worked from today’s session?
What tools can you take away from today to
improve your practice?
What barriers are there to you taking this forward
into your practice?
109. Looking after yourself
Recognise the emotional
impact of caring
Acknowledge that self care is
important
What are the ways you care
for and support yourself and
each other in your team?