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Patient Safety Clinical Programme Board Launch
Event June 3rd 2009
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Terms of Reference

• Provide strategic leadership to EoE patient
  safety agenda
• Support and facilitate a culture where patient
  safety is a key priority for providers and
  commissioners of care
• Ensure good clinical engagement in the other
  programme boards, embedding a safety culture and
  creating a sense of urgency for top patient
  safety priorities
• Develop/adapt patient safety guidance and lead on
  patient safety projects as agreed by Steering
  Group
• Align the Board with local and national campaigns
  with agreement on metrics
• Promote patient safety awareness and culture at
  executive and Board level in providers and
  commissioners to demonstrate leadership in
  patient safety
• Work with patient safety champions

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Patient Safety Deliverables

• Demonstrate quantifiable improvements in the
  following areas
• HCAIs
• VTE prevention
• Acutely deteriorating patient
• Medication
• Reduction in overall hospital mortality in EoE

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Patient Safety CPB - membership

• Acute Trusts Stephen Ramsden, John Pickles,
  Trevor Baglin, James Quinn, Margaret Wright, Anne
  Thomson, Marion Wood
• PCTs Sunil Gupta, Dennis Cox, Andy Watts, vacancy
• SHA Susan Stewart, Robert Winter, Sandra
  Betterton, Linda Sheridan
• Mental Health Claire Lawton, Paul Keedwell
• Pharmacists Robert Duncombe, Carole Roberts
• Academic Prof John Clarkson
• Risk Manager Glen Pascoe
• Patient Reps Peter Metherall, Marlene OMoura
• Patient Experience Board Yvonne Blucher
• Enablers Jessica Sheridan (comms), Penny Lavis
  (IT), Kate Gill (workforce)
• ERPHO Julian Flowers

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Patient Safety CPB Priority Areas (1)

• Based on implementation plan and Terms of
  Reference deliverables
• Sustain improvement and reduction in
  healthcare-associated infections extend from
  MRSA and C difficile. Include surgical site
  infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia
• Improve VTE prevention, reduce hospital venous
  thromboembolism and improve anticoagulant control
  across health systems set up project group and
  completed first 90 day challenge
• Improvement in the management and outcomes of
  acutely ill and deteriorating patients, including
  in Mental Health project group set up, two
  meetings

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Patient Safety CPB Priority Areas (2)

• A reduction in adverse drug events and errors,
  together with improvements in medicines
  reconciliation and general medicine management.
  Consideration of an East of England wide acute
  drug chart. Project group being set up through
  east of England pharmacy networks
• A reduction in overall hospital mortality within
  the region is an overall aim of the programme
• Further priorities being developed over time
• Including ensuring the development of support
  systems, sharing of good practice via the
  development of a Faculty.
• The staging of stakeholder and staff events to
  demonstrate the role of the Patient Safety
  Clinical Programme Board and build awareness
  across the region You are here!

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Implementation Plan key work areas,
actions/milestones, responsibility and timeline

• Acutely deteriorating patient
• Establish project board with chair
• Map current practice across EoE
• Develop proposals for improvement
• Agree proposals
• acute trusts that have implemented proposals
  100 December 2010

• VTE prevention
• Establish project board
• Develop implementation plan
• Agree plan
• VTE baseline established
• trusts implementing thromboprophylaxis
  following risk assessments
• Regular audit of outcomes
• Reduction of VTE across EoE by more than 50
  achieved by March 2011

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Links with other Clinical Programme Boards

• Chair and manager to attend a meeting of the 8
  clinical programme boards
• Identify key players, champions
• SS member of Patient Experience Board and YB
  member of Patient Safety
• CL and RW members of other CPBs
• Specific events