We asked the healthcare community the single biggest thing to positively impact patient safety, with over half citing a psychologically safe workplace culture. But, what else did we learn?

RLDatix convened a panel of experts to highlight learnings that could help integrated care systems overcome the workforce challenges they face while maintaining a focus on patient safety.

A comprehensive systematic review of physician burnout in particular has been published in the British Medical Journal this month, bringing together 170 separate studies of the topic.

Dr Darren Kilroy gives his reflections on the BMJ International Forum in Gothenburg, where he presented a session focused on ‘Rethinking Governance, Risk and Compliance.

Discover how Coventry & Rugby are going to be using PolicyStat to build best practice policies and procedures.

How can patient safety and risk management systems help support the new Integrated Care System in England?

Discover the healthcare organisations who are pushing forward their patient safety efforts and making the move to DCIQ.

Discover how an RLDatix training course can optimise your system, align to organisational goals and implement improvements.

Healthcare organisations across the UK are using PolicyStat to transform their policies and procedures, to improve performance and compliance and ensure safer care.

West Hertfordshire moved to DCIQ to make sure the Trust is aligned with the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, to streamline processes and drive its safety goals.

The DCIQ Safeguarding module keeps all information about safeguarding concerns and referrals separate from other data, helping to protect sensitive information and patient safety.

Healthcare organisations can utilise QR codes with RLDatix cloud software. Staff can directly access incident reporting forms & internal policies through mobile devices by simply scanning a device.

The CQC recently launched its strategy for 2021 and beyond where the importance of safety has been significantly upgraded. The new strategy builds on experience and learnings from the past five years.

NHS Wales have been shortlisted for two awards at the HSJ Patient Safety Awards this year, for the Once for Wales Concerns Management System.

Staff burnout and attrition are major challenges in the healthcare industry and tackling them from the outset is critical to attracting and retaining key workers.

In this latest blog, we look at how positive reporting of good practice and success can help support health systems and organisations in their journey to become highly reliable.

Using data more effectively and applying the experiences of high reliability organisations can improve efficiency and reduce costs, and also have a dramatic impact on patient safety.

In this series RLDatix and Patient Safety Learning will set out practical applications of high-reliability principles in healthcare, considering how they fit within the context of risk management.

In the coming weeks we will begin piloting the new PSIMS capability with RLDatix customer organisations.

Policy chaos is a state of disorganisation and disarray, where policies are housed in a system with no folder structure and staff members have a challenging time finding policies and procedures.

Clinicians and caregivers are facing unprecedented levels of extreme emotional stress. What we can learn from past traumatic events & how they can be applied to help safeguard mental wellbeing.

Watch the session on-demand to find out what is needed to improve the way we learn from adverse events in healthcare.

Managing data more effectively and applying the experiences of HROs can have a dramatic impact on patient safety. Read more from Phil Taylor, Chief Digital Officer, RLDatix.

Learn three ways RLDatix software supports the front line with key features to reduce their administrative burden and improve patient safety and quality.

Using an automated policy management system gives policy administrators the ability to quickly create, revise and distribute new or updated policy content

With COVID-19 accelerating change in the way that many services are delivered within the healthcare system, the CQC is looking to update the way it works.

Caring for others is a key ethical and professional value of good healthcare and a basic tenet for servant leadership. Learn three key ways to adopt a servant leader approach at your organisation.

Learn about the evolution of approaches to the response to patient harm that is rooted in a non-punitive, fair yet accountable Culture

Check out four key takeaways from Beaumont Health's Virtual Connections 2020 - North American Edition presentation, "Journeying to Effective Policy Management with RLDatix's PolicyStat Platform".

Amid COVID-19, healthcare organisations’ journey towards a new and enlightened workplace should be top of mind. Read six strategies to help you get started.

Support your patient safety efforts with accurate, timely data that will ultimately improve learning from patient deaths. Integration with a local patient administration system can help.

Healthcare organisations work hard to ensure that patient safety is a strategic imperative, but significant patient safety improvements have been difficult to achieve.

Staying up to date with how incident management is continuing to evolve will be a key component of promoting a culture of safety across healthcare organisations.

Issues with policies and procedures are commonly identified as contributing factors to events. In many cases, these important documents are also identified as root causes to events...

Are there changes you want to make to your system but just do not have the time? Have you spoken with other users and thought ‘we’d love to have that in our system but we don’t know how?'...

Ever since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released its landmark 1999 report, “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” there has been a global focus on improving patient safety.

Since 1999, when the Institute of Medicine published its landmark report, “To Err is Human,” healthcare executives have waged an all-out war on reducing preventable patient harm.

There likely isn’t a hospital in the world that hasn’t made patient safety a strategic imperative.

When patient safety problems occur, almost always it is the systems, procedures, conditions, environment and constraints staff face that are the main contributory factors.

In all areas of life, data is a powerful tool that helps us make decisions about choices we make and where changes are needed.

A number of high-profile reports* in recent years have pointed to significant problems with the way healthcare organisations and the wider system sometimes respond to complaints and investigate.

The core purpose of incident reporting is to learn from what happened in order to make improvements to future healthcare processes and systems and protect patients from harm.

There are still many healthcare organisations relying on manual systems and processes to detect and prevent medical errors.

Healthcare organisations seem to have an affinity for paper, however executives are discovering that paper forms are notoriously ineffective for tracking critical performance improvement information.

In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that the way in which the NHS investigates and learns from instances of avoidable harm and death is extremely variable and often poor.

Around 50% of all deaths occur in hospital and while many of these are inevitable, it is estimated that between three and five percent of deaths in acute hospitals in England could be avoided

As all of England transitions to an ICS framework, it's important for organisations to adopt systems and tools that allow providers to identify themes and trends and share areas for improvement.

"Learn how Arkansas Children's Hospital has implemented the ""Communication and Optimal Resolution"" (CANDOR) program to improve care for patients and caregivers in all areas of the organisation."

As all of England transitions to an ICS framework, it's important for organisations to adopt systems and tools that allow providers to identify themes and trends and share areas for improvement.

Often in healthcare, writing policies and procedures involves a team of people, including stakeholders. The problem is that with so many people and respective opinions involved, things tend to get tri

What exactly is policy and procedure management you ask? Simply put it’s the process of creating, communicating, and maintaining policies and procedures within an organisation.

As COVID-19 continues, we want to highlight steps that our customers are taking across the globe to support COVID-19 patients and what we are currently doing to support these customers at this time.

In a world of ever-increasing complexity, too often the tools we use only further complicate our working lives.

On 5th December 2019, The Minister for Health in Ireland published a new patient safety bill that will regulate many important measures related to safety initiatives.

Under increasing pressure to ensure that safety practices are the best they can be, how can DCIQ transform the way your organisation operates and delivers the highest quality care?

We identified where you’re hurting most and recommend the best prescription to manage the pain.

Yesterday, Patient Safety Learning was launched at an event in London. With almost 100 attendees spanning all areas across the healthcare sector...

First, we are presuming your organisation needs patient safety software. If this is a lingering question for your executive team, then let’s address that first.

Despite countless advancements made over decades of technological and medical innovation, healthcare providers continue to grapple with some core issues.

One of the most essential aspects of a healthcare organisation is the way in which its caregivers communicate with their patients.

On the 13th November we held the bi-annual RLDatix Patient Safety Conference at the iconic Royal College of Physicians. The theme of the conference was ‘Data into actions and insights'

Over the past decade, healthcare has taken many notes from the aviation industry, including the importance of checklists, cyclical processing, evaluation of safety events

In 2012, the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published a little-known report...

With the increasing amount of mobile technology being deployed into the UK workforce in a bid to make processes and people operate as effectively and efficiently as possible

To many, the term “Cloud technology” means so much, but also so little. Read more to determine if your healthcare software is ready for the cloud.

While the basic tenants of all healthcare providers are more or less the same (that is, to improve and maintain the health, safety, and satisfaction of the patients they treat), the scope and severity

You have a great new patient safety and quality initiative you’d like to start at your organization – one you think could benefit many. What do you need to get started?

Learn more on how risk managers and infection control and prevention teams can work together to positively impact patient and staff safety.