Dr Nick Harper Deputy Medical Director
Why are we here? A patient is the most important person in our Hospital. He is not an interruption to our work, he is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our Hospital, he is a part of it. We are not doing a favour by serving him, he is doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so.
To Care
The ‘Me Test’ Is the care I’m seeing good enough for me or my family?
House of Commons Patient Safety Health Committee 850,000 incidents pa Death 0.5% Serious harm 1.0% Minor harm 5.0% Near miss Risk taking behaviour 90.0% Significant under-reporting
The causes of patient harm Person/Human Factors System Forgetfulness Inattention Recklessness Poor communication Policies Blame Secondary to organisational processes Errors are consequences not causes Not who blundered but why did defences fail? Never events occurrence is an indication that the organisation may not have put in place the right systems and processes
Practice Clinical Pathways Talksafe Incident reporting Duty of Candour Medical records
MEDICAL RECORD KEEPING GMC Good Medical practice
Legibility
Medical Records SOAP Model Subjective component Objective component Assessment Plan
Medical Records
Why are we here?
Values Based Organisation
Values Based Organisation
Values Based Organisation
Values Based Organisation
Values Based Organisation
One of the essential qualities of the clinician is interest in humanity, for the secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient