Safety In Numbers Group

Huge thanks to all the delegates who joined our #SafetyNetPhD networking event today! Your participation and engagement made it a success. Let's keep the conversations going and continue to build connections in the #SafetyNet community 🤝 Many thanks to @YHPSRC for hosting!

Our work highlights how older people with frailty at heightened risk of the impact of medicines errors are expected to perform complex work to safely self-manage multiple medicines at home. Such a safety-critical workload needs to be supported & people adequately prepared.

My medicines are familiar to me—there is nothing else I need(or want) to know: People described being familiar with medicines, taking them automatically (sometimes without knowing what they were), trusting healthcare teams without question & the systems that connected those teams

Support with medicines that makes my work easier: People described the practical and emotional support received from their own networks and from healthcare professionals. They valued good relationships and being recognised as an individual.

Managing medicines in an unclear system: People tried to mange medicines in a fragmented care system, which was difficult to access and navigate. Some felt overlooked, unheard, or misunderstood.

Medicines keep me going, but what happened to my life? People tried to balance the demands of their medicines regimens with the desire to continue their normal lives. Some adapted their regimens, e.g avoiding taking medicines at specific times, or stopped taking them altogether.

Managing many medicines is a skilled job I didn't apply for: It is a skilled and safety-critical job demanding time and dedication. People manage medicines and dose changes, different formulations, timings, storage, and check medicines and monitor how they feel.

📜 New paper @giorgiapre @bethfylan @MedicinesDavid @DanielOkeowo2 @jon_silcock 👉doi.org/10.1111/hex.13… How do older people with frailty experience managing multiple medicines at home? We interviewed 32 older people living with frailty. Our analysis produced five main themes:

Our team is leading the way in developing and evaluating solutions for engaging with and involving patients for #patientsafety Some highlights here sway.office.com/gBTziMs8d5oAPN… @ptsafetylearn @hsib_org @nhs_safety @NIHRcommunity @PSCommissioner @psmn999

We need to hear from older people (70+) that have stayed in a UK hospital recently! Please pass to relatives and share the post @age_uk @DementiaUK @FriendsElderly Take part here: leedspsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0j… #olderpeople #over70 #over80 #elderly #seniors #elderlycare #seniorcare

@yqsrdotorg has been spreading the word about engaging Patients for Patient Safety at the @BTHFT concourse to highlight #WPSD23 #WPSD2023 #WorldPatientSafetyDay Pop along, we would love to see you!

Ahead of #WPSD23 the Learn Together resources are being launched. Designed to meet the requirements of PSIRF, they support the healthcare service to meaningfully involve patients and their families learn-together.org.uk

@janekohara a patient safety researcher for 14 years focusing on patient involvement in patient safety summarises this work perfectly in the webinar link below youtube.com/watch?v=eOqMYh…

📢To mark World Patient Safety Day 2023, we have lots of exciting things going on this week to celebrate all of our work which speaks to this year's theme, Engaging Patients for Patient Safety' #WPSD23

🗣️To mark World Patient Safety Day 2023, our safety science researchers & lay leaders from @yqsrdotorg & @YHPSRC will be at @BTHFT concourse tomorrow 10am-2pm. Do come along & find out more about how our team has supported engaging patients for patient safety #WPSD23 #WPSD2023

How do you capture impact from public involvement without reducing it to a numbers exercise? At a recent event @KLiabo, @Peninsula_ARC, unpacked common assumptions & gave an example of how impact could be studied more in-depth. Watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=D-14_y…

We're looking for patients, service users, carers and members of the public with lived experience of health and social care services to join our Lay Leaders. To find out more and to apply: yhpsrc.org/our-lay-leader…

.@HRA_Latest launched new quality standards to improve the information given to people invited to take part in research. The standards were developed with ethics committee members, researchers, research participants, patients, and the public. Read more: hra.nhs.uk/about-us/news-…

⌛️Only 1⃣ week left to apply! Our Community Involvement and Inclusion Lead post closes next Friday 25th August. To find out more: jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

📢Are you interested in: - Involving more diverse patient populations in research studies - Ensuring interventions/strategies benefit people from all communities equally - Promoting a culture of inclusivity within teams If so, this is the job for you 👇 jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…