Redeployment: A Patient Safety Issue

The press has all been full of headlines about staffing levels in the NHS, but this is probably a problem across healthcare around the country. What this does is provide the perfect patient safety quandary, how do we keep all the areas safe. This often results in the redeployment of nursing staff to different areas, […]

Is the NHS ready for PSIRF?

Is the NHS ready for PSIRF?
In this blog I explain why I think the NHS is not yet ready for PSIRF but agree that something needs to change

Recent Progress

So, as you have seen I have been in my job for about 16 months and recently, I have been pushing some of the new tools that PSIRF has introduced. The majority have been using observations and walk through talk throughs (WTTT)and here are some of my musings on what I have done and where […]

1 Year in

So, I have now completed my first year in the patient safety world, I thought I would update everyone on what I have been doing. I approached the role with an understanding of human factors and the role that they have in contributing to incidents. They also have a role in the promotion of measures […]

To strike or not

So there has been a lot of media coverage of the decision of nurses to strike in the last week. There are a couple of facts to clear up, it is only the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) that have decided to strike, other unions also represent nurses such as Unison, Unite and the GMB. […]

Appreciative inquiry

As I intimated in my last blog, I have recently changed Trusts and the difference in how business is conducted is amazing. I attended a community of practice session. It was titled Appreciative Inquiry in the M&M meeting. I had decided that this would be a useful session for me, as we move closer to […]

From expert to novice

A long time since I wrote something but here we go. For 17 years I have worked in and around the Emergency Department (ED), even going back to complete agency shifts and bank shifts, when working in a different department. Safe to say, emergency nursing caught my interest and kept it hooked. Even now, emergency […]

Thoughts about the Withdraw from Afghanistan

My thoughts on the rout from Afghanistan I have been watching the unfolding events in Afghanistan with a heavy heart. I served in the Royal Navy as both a medic and a nurse, during my time as a nurse, I went to Afghanistan twice. By specialisation I am an emergency nurse, so I saw the […]

World Patient Safety Day

With today being World Patient Safety Day, I thought I would share what it means to me. From those that know me or follow me, they will know that I am really interested in Human Factors and press for greater understanding of these within the healthcare sector and specifically around the investigation of incidents. In […]

My journey in nursing

So where do I start? My journey into nursing is a complex, convoluted and long one. Believe it or not, I think it probably starts when I was about 4. I have a vague recollection of my uncle visiting and wearing his traditional naval uniform, and at that point I decided that I was joining […]