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The Trouble with Handovers
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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.
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This latest podcast features the tragic experience of Jane Dolby from Essex, a widow who lost her fisherman husband to the sea. Because he was not wearing a lifejacket, he did not survive. Furthermore his body was never found, resulting in a terrible legal battle for Jane.
Tom Smith from Fife was wearing his lifejacket and he did survive when his fishing boat sank. Neil Murray from Looe in Cornwall also lived to tell his story.
But a great many fishermen have been lost at sea – 112 since 2000, and in 2009 alone there have been a further 9 fatalities among fishermen. Many of these tragedies may have been prevented had they been wearing lifejackets.
It’s essential to get this message across. Gerry Wood, Coastguard Sector Manager, South East Cornwall said: ‘We are not telling fishermen anything that they do not already know. What we are saying is – if you end up in the water, a lifejacket may give you your best chance of staying alive.’
REVIEW: Training doesn’t have to be boring
A maritime training film produced by Focus ‘Lifeboat Drills – Preparing for Safety, the latest DVD from Walport Training Films, has just been well reviewed by trade journal ’Safety at Sea International’:
‘Training doesn’t have to be boring’ is the message behind a new DVD that aims to increase safety during lifeboat operations.”
“The film will grab seafarers’ attention about a complicated subject“, Walport’s maritime training producer, Jill Tinsley told SASI. The film certainly makes an impact. The opening narration takes place over footage of a familiar scenario: a lifeboat being recovered following a drill. Then the lifeboat plunges suddenly and terrifyingly into the sea, showing just how badly operations can go wrong.
Focus producer Ian Ward said:
“This was one of the most challenging projects we have undertaken. Many seafarers’ lives have been lost during lifeboat drills in recent years, so we had to be sure our crew could work safely within a lifeboat being deployed from a container vessel.
“But even more importantly we simply had to produce a DVD for seafarers that would help ship owners prevent more loss of life. Time will tell if we have achieved that.
“Walport is a great client to work with and we were delighted with their professionalism and commitment to achieving high standards of production.”
