the patient contribution to safety
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Patients want great care but find it hard to comment at the point of care. Patient Opinion gives everyone a way to access patients as their own safety agentsTRANSCRIPT
Scaling the patient contribution to safety
across all settings
Paul HodgkinPatient Opinion
@paulhodgkin
“The person with the greatest incentive to get great care to Bed 9 is the person lying in Bed 9”
Image thanks to http://weareus.co.uk/portfolio/human-chicken
Business as usual?
So what’s new?
Everyone with a smart phone now has a public voice and public camera
Story Relevant staff
Response Comment 1ServiceUser Comment 2
User Organisations
CQC
CCGs, Healthwatch
Local Authorities
National government, and MPs
Automatic notification
Comment from patient
Service improvement
Transparency across the system
But what about siloed care?
Care Home
Care Home
Step down facility
Ambulance
Local NHS FT hospital
Ambulance
Ambulance
Community physio
“The ambulance arrived quickly”Daughter
“We really liked the step down homebut it was awful arriving there at 22.00after waiting all day for the hospital to
discharge her”.Daughter
“We often find residents comingback to us late at night”
Care home comment
The patient contribution to safety across health and social care settings
Health servicesSocial care
Summary
• The person in Bed 9 has always had a strong incentive to get great care
• What has changed is that they now have a public voice
• New platforms that link the voice of patients up to busy staff can be cheap, acceptable to staff, and result in a service improvement in ~10% of time
Patient ‘voice’ via public social media platforms is a major, new driver of patient-led safety
Thank You
Paul Hodgkin
www.patientopinion.org.uk
Twitter: @paulhodgkin