EEAST General Broadcast

This months podcast has been recorded by members of the Patient Safety Team that were involved in a review of patients that were injured whilst in our care. Jo Wells, Patient Safety Improvement Specialist is joined by Liam Dunn, Head of Patient Safety, David Grover, Patient Safety Specialist for SNEE, Louise Baines, Patient Safety Advisor and Karen Wooding, Patient Safety Advisor to discuss how the review was completed. The team explain some of the processes of thematic reviews conducted under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework as well as elaborating on the findings and recommendations the report has made to drive improvement and make our patient care episodes safer. Should you have any questions from the podcast you can contact the team via email at patientsafety@eastamb.nhs.uk.   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this month’s edition I am joined by Dave Grover, Patient Safety Officer and Kim Sage, Halo for Colchester Hospital. In this podcast we have a discussion around the Safe Discharge Non-Conveyance Bundle and ePCR Audits.Why was the Safe Discharge Non-Conveyance Bundle implemented: This tool was developed as a reminder and support to crews to cover off all elements of which patients we take to hospital or who to safely leave at home. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this month’s episode our conversation is about end-of-life care and what this means to our patients and their families. This is the first of two episodes discussing EOLC. Joining us in this episode is Justine Di Fede (Clinical Lead – EOL Regional Portfolio), Karen Chumbley (GP & Hospice Lead in EOLC – Suffolk & NE Essex) and Deenah Elswaf (Senior EMT & has a passion for EOLC) around End-of-Life Care.  We discuss the signs and symptoms of EOLC and the differences between EOL and Palliative Care for patients, what type of holistic treatment is available to the Trust and when do you need to take the patient to hospital. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This months Podcast is focusing on the Clinical Advice Line. Leigh is one of the trusts Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) Assistants who will generally answer and call for the Clinical Advice Line (CAL). We discuss what she may ask and what a clinician may need ready when calling the CAL. Secondly, we talk to Sarah, one of the departments Clinical Navigators, a role previously titled Clinical Coordinator. Sarah talks about the role, what advice and support we look to give, when we answer a request. And finally, Richard Smith, Emergency Operation Centre (EOC) Clinical and Strategic Project Lead who talks about the future of the CAL. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode Ed Green, the Patient Safety Improvement Specialist and Sarah Garner, the Patient Experience Improvement Manager has a chat with our EEAST Community First Responder Manager (CFR) and Paramedic, Clare Ruddy and also Community First Responder and CFR Training Officer, Christine Cheetham.We discuss the Community First Responder (CFR) role in EEAST, what part they play and when are they despatched to a 999 call. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TRIGGER WARNING- this podcast talks about the death of premature babies.Working in the community means that clinicians can be faced with any type of incident. This means needing the right equipment to deal with whatever they face.In the tragic and rare cases where a premature baby has died, it has been in the past difficult to find a safe and dignified solution for baby to be transported with parents. The cuddle pocket is designed to be a compassionate way of carrying a baby from the community to the hospital.Back in 2021, Damon Wheddon, Clinical Lead, sat down with Jordan Nicholls, Jenni McClagish and Denise Kendall to talk about how the Trust commissioned the pockets and how to use them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's important to think about how we are safe on the front line, doing the work day in and day out, but how do our polices, processes and practices across an entire organisation impact the safety of our work?Steven Shorrock is an interdisciplinary humanistic, systems and design practitioner interested in human work from multiple perspectives. He currently specialises as a human factors and safety specialist in air traffic control in Europe, but has worked across most safety critical sectors.We talk about how policies can interfere with each other, how hierarchy impacts performance and reflecting on incidents in this fascinating chat.Steven's blog can be found here Humanistic Systems and he's also on Twitter @StevenShorrock. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Critical care paramedics bring more than just advanced clinical skills, they also have a huge amount of non-technical tricks can help keep patients and staff safe at scene and make the best choices.This week, Patient Safety Integration Lead Jordan sits down (virtually) with Lou Rosson and Chris Neil, who break down what happens before they get to a job, what they're thinking at scene and how they rely on the team to make the best decisions for the patient. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Esther Murray is a Health Psychologist working at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry. She has a keen interest in moral injury, the term used when people are witness to shocking or traumatic events that change their outlook on the world.Our previous Patient Safety Integration Lead, sat down with Esther on the phone to talk about moral injury and how it can impact ambulance crews, as well as what we can all do to help each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Childbirth in the community can be one of the most challenging jobs any frontline clinician faces.In this episode, our previous Patient Safety Integration Lead, Jordan, sat down with our Clinical Lead, Daimon Wheddon and Rose Bedford, Consultant Midwife in East and North Herts NHS Trust. They talk about common challenged with delivery,  misconceptions and top tips about what to do when delivering a baby.If you have any questions or feedback please email lfi@eastamb.nhs.uk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, our previous Patient Safety Integration Lead, Jordan, sat down with Martin Bromiley to discuss human factors in clinical settings. They discuss what safety truly is, how to check yourself in a stressful situation, how to work with people you may not know in high stress situations and what organisations can do to support psychological safety in their Trusts.Martin is one of the leading champions in this field, a pilot and instructor, who's wife sadly died during a routine procedure, Martin worked with the NHS Trust to truly understand the root causes of the incident. He then championed patient safety across the country, founding the Clinical Human Factors Group and having a supportive role in the formation of the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch.For more information about CHFG please visit- https://chfg.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Clinical Lead Daimon Wheddon and the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital's Dr Caroline Barry, sit down to talk ReSPECT.The ReSPECT process provides a written record of patients' treatment preference and focuses on treatments to be considered as well as those that are not wanted or would not work. People with a complete ReSPECT form do not require a separate DNACPR form although it is important to be aware that a patient can have a ReSPECT form and still be in favour of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.ReSPECT aims to inform decision making for ambulance clinicians when the patient may lose capacity to make decisions for themselves.For more information please visit: ReSPECT | Resuscitation Council UK Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.