Suzette Woodward
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“The task is, not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees” Erwin Schrodinger (1952) Sign up to Safety is a national campaign focused on helping people work safely. We are part of a number of patient safety initiatives across…
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Over the coming months this blog will build further on the issues explored in my book ‘Rethinking Patient Safety’. The aim is to help readers and anyone interested in helping people work safely to think about the simple things they can do differently now. The thread throughout that connects the blog, the forthcoming outputs and downloadable resources of Sign…
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The book has made the case for going back to basics for revising the very foundations of risk and patient safety. The end of the book is therefore also the beginning of the next stage of our work in patient safety. I have had the privilege of working in the NHS for over 35 years and…
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There is nothing more potent than being in the presence of someone who just wants to listen to you. Someone who is both open minded and open hearted; someone who does not get restless for you to find a solution or for you to take up their preferred solution David Naylor 2015 This chapter describes…
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Please welcome back Afni who is sharing her story of her two pregnancies and her experiences both good and bad as part of a series of blogs related to maternity safety. This blog moves from her first pregnancy and finds her a few years later experiencing her second pregnancy. Over to Afni…. So dear reader,…
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Please welcome back Afni who is sharing her story of her two pregnancies and her experiences both good and bad as part of a series of blogs related to maternity safety. Over to Afni…. If it doesn’t rain it pours. It was around the 5th month when I developed something called Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD)…
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Please welcome back Afni who is sharing her story of her two pregnancies and her experiences both good and bad as part of a series of blogs related to maternity safety. Over to Afni…. Dear reader, you will recall that I was sharing the early days of my first pregnancy where I was diagnosed with…
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Guest Blog – Afni Shah-Hamilton Please welcome our guest blogger, Afni Shah-Hamilton. Afni graduated from University College London in Podiatry BSC (Hons) and completed her master´s degree at Kings College London. She has years of experience in biomechanical problems of the lower leg, specialist knowledge on how diabetes and cancer treatments affect the feet and how to…
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The campaign just recently attended Patient First conference where we held a Campaign Kitchen. We had hundreds of visitors to our kitchen, enticed by cake but also enticed by the ability just to sit down and have a conversation with someone about their work, the highs and the lows and what we might be able…
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Thanks to Richard Taunt of the UKIA (http://www.ukimprovement.co.uk/) I am reading Team of Teams: New rules of engagement for a complex world. There are so many similarities with our own learning at Sign up to Safety that I will share as the weeks go by. However I was struck by a section on intelligence that…
