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The Film “The Trouble with Handovers” has been made to highlight the vital importance of clinical handovers to patients’ safety.

We follow the story of David, an elderly man with dementia, after he develops pneumonia and a crush fracture in his thoracic spine. David and his partially – sighted wife have been coping OK at home with support of their daughter. But an admission to hospital goes badly wrong due to important information being lost at various handovers between staff.

The Patient Safety Federation (PSF) is made up of, run by and funded by the healthcare organisations of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Its members collaborate to address those wider patient safety issues of particular relevance to them, bringing to bear on these a multi-agency and multi-disciplinary approach.

The No Needless Ignorance (NNI) workstream is one of ten work streams under the PSF and consists of clinicians from different backgrounds with a common vision who have come together to create this innovative piece that can be used right across the NHS to illustrate how handovers between services can go wrong. Giving clinicians the opportunity to reflect on individual day to day practice and therefore improve handovers and communication to ultimately affect patient safety.

Here at Focus we are so committed to the power of podcasting – AND to mark our first thirty years of promoting business conversations –  that we’re offering a FREE audio podcast to companies who want to explore the amazing potential of podcasting to powerfully deliver your message.

You can choose to record material yourself at your office or come into our studios in Southampton and work with us to create a great 5 minute podcast. We’ll add a free intro voiceover and music to get you started.

Have a listen to some of the work we’ve done for clients who have used a podcast series to start a conversation:

Parity Solutions

A range of podcasts looking at Collaborative Recruitment, CIM and technical business issues.

EUFIC – The European Food Information Council

A range of audio and video podcasts looking at issues affecting the European food industry.

Maritime and Coastguard Agency

Video podcasts created using material that we have produced for MCA, material from the MCA helicopters, or from MCA stock footage.

Contact us to discuss your free podcast.

This offer is valid for the first 20 businesses who contact us.

Did you know that Video Conferencing is really useful for making audio Business Podcasts?   Let me explain …

Podcasting is a wonderful way to share information widely, and the majority of Business Podcasts consist mainly of conversations.  Now obviously no-one would think of travelling across the globe to meet up face-to-face to record such conversations, so we’ve been using Voice Over IP (that’s Skype to you and me!) because it’s free, better than the telephone, and to many people’s amazement it works brilliantly (provided you use good microphones).  If we can get people into a studio then we can use inter-studio ISDN audio links – but that’s pretty unusual.

But many global organisations who use Business Podcasting also have a Video Conferencing network, and that’s a great way to talk across the world, and it provides good sound quality.  Our client AstraZeneca is no exception in having a huge VC network providing contact with all of their sites.  So when we started to produce Business Podcasts for them the first thing to work out was how we would connect – and someone said ‘How about Video Conferencing!’  Sounded crazy, but once we’d all thought about it and tried it – it works a treat!

So now we’ve tweaked our VC system, and we record and edit interviews  over the VC system into our SADiE audio workstation and produce great conversations for podcast – using the medium of VC.  Thanks to some clever people at Direct Visual, we’re getting great audio quality out of the Tandberg VC system.  And because everyone can see each other, the conversations flow beautifully too!

So let me thank one of the very nice people at AstraZeneca for coming up with this bright idea, and say ‘Thanks Amanda!’ (You know who you are!)

But why didn’t I think of it!