National Patient Safety Agency Safer Practice Notice 14

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N.B.T.C Working Group

• National Patient Safety Agency Safer Practice
  Notice 14
• Task and Finish Group

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Overview of the Group

• Membership
• Remit
• Aims and Objectives
• Specific Task
• Progress so far

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Membership

• Chair-Consultant Haematologist
• Secretary-Transfusion Liaison Nurse
• A representative from the 10 RTCS.
• NPSA
• Representative from the National Transfusion
  Laboratory Managers Group

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Remit-Aims and Objectives

• NPSA SPN14.
• To assist hospitals to develop and implement a
  competency framework for all staff involved in
  the transfusion process.
• This remit to be completed in 12 months.
• Next and final meeting 15th March 2008

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Safer Practice Notice 14

• SPN 14-Issued 9/11/06
• Synopsis
• By May 07 hospitals should implement an action
  plan for competency based training and assessing
  for all staff involved in the transfusion process
• May 2008- 50 of staff formally assessed
• May 2009- 100 staff formally assessed
• Nov 2009- all initial competencies should have
  been undertaken.

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Tasks

• Provide tools to develop, plan and implement
  SPN14 including competency frameworks.
• Promote sharing of good practice
• Advise the NPSA on how to address feedback
  feedback on the implementation of SPN14

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Feedback

• 1st meeting held Oct 2007.
• Concerns raised
• Too little, too late ( SPN issued Nov. 2006)
• Timeline unrealistic
• TPs had been left to plan and implement
• Many different approaches
• Gap analysis and risk assessments
• Guidance not suitable to Paediatrics/neonates

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Feedback

• Different approaches reported
• Self Assessment
• Link Nurses
• Scenarios
• Clinical skills days
• Exclusion register for medical staff
• E learning
• Modern matrons as assessors
• Most hospitals had combined the Welsh and the
  NPSA competency guidelines.

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Progress so far

• Development of a plan
• Most hospitals have begun to develop a plan for
  implementation
• 75 of hospitals had begun implementation
• Variety of methods are being used for training
  and assessing
• Actions
• Letter reinforcing the need for senior Trust
  involvement in implementation of SPN 14 NPSA.
• Competency requirements are not
• the sole responsibility of the TP.
• NPSA SPN14 Task and Finish Group
• website-
• part of Transfusionguidelines website.

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What will be on the website?

• Terms of reference
• Statement with clarification of bare minimum
  required for the competency element of SPN14
• Statement highlighting the need to Gap analysis
  and Risk assess.
• Example of inclusion/exclusion statement for
  involvement within the transfusion process
• Example of a simulation pack and scenarios.
• Assessors clarification-Miminum qualifications
• Policy if competency not passed
• Training anaylis-who needs what
• Example of membership for a working party for
  implementation of SPN 14

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THANK YOU
HOPE YOURE ALL STILL AWAKE!