HSE Health Matters Winter 2021

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WORLD PATIENT SAFETY DAY Safe Maternal and Newborn Care the theme of 2021 celebrations

contribute to better healthcare. We work in close partnership and collaboration with the HSE and other healthcare agencies in Ireland.” Peter McKenna, Clinical Director with The National Women and Infants Health Programme (NWIHP), said one of the ‘cornerstones’ of the National Maternity Strategy is patient safety and ‘arguably it could be said to be the most important’.

LEFT AND BELOW: Staff from the Quality & Patient Safety Department, UHL and UMHL who hosted information stands and created awareness with patients, staff and visitors during World Patient Safety Day 2021.

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afe Maternal and Newborn Care was the theme of this year’s World Patient Safety Day, which took place in September. World Patient Safety Day is an opportunity to promote healthcare safety, increase awareness about patient safety and recognise the work already under way. Dr Colm Henry, HSE Chief Clinical Officer, highlighted patient safety as a key priority for the HSE. “We are committed to the implementation of the Patient Safety Strategy and the improvement of quality and patient safety throughout all our services. It has been a tough and unprecedented 18 months, but throughout this pandemic our healthcare staff have adapted to the crisis and have constantly endeavoured to provide the highest quality care possible. For these extraordinary efforts we are grateful,” said Dr Henry. Dr Orla Healy, HSE National Clinical Director for Quality and Patient Safety Directorate, explained that keeping patients and everyone in our services safe is the priority for all of us who work in healthcare. “The HSE Quality and Patient Safety Directorate is committed to working with you, our patients and our staff, to make our services as safe as they can be; to acknowledge when things go wrong and to learn and improve our services for all our patients and those in our care,” she said. Patients for Patient Safety is based on a World Health Organisation initiative that

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aims to improve patient safety in healthcare, working in collaboration with the health services. “We believe that every individual patient experience, from birth to end of life, should have safe care as a core principle,” said Tibbs Pereira, from Patients for Patient Safety. “Our members have a unique relationship with patient safety issues as a result of our experience. We participate in activities that engage patients as advocates to influence all aspects of patient care. We actively

NWIHP was founded in 2017 in order to drive on the values of the National Maternity Strategy, which came out in 2016. “We gather information on patient safety from a multitude of sources in the HSE. The only point really of collecting this information is so that we can target resources at making our services safer,” he said. “Safety is not an add-on to our service. It is a fundamental core component of it, and this is what we must work to achieve at everything that we do.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION on Patient Safety in the HSE please go to https:// www.hse.ie/eng/about/qavd/patient-safety/


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START to cut back the treats

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pages 82-84

Obesity – breaking the stigma

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page 80

New nutrition standards for staff and visitors

2min
page 81

Healthy Communities

6min
pages 78-79

NiSRP updates

4min
pages 74-75

CPD Certificate Programme in Organisation Development and Change

2min
page 72

National Framework for Governance, Management and Support of Research

4min
page 73

Woodlands for Health

3min
page 77

Sexual health update

2min
page 71

Severe weather planning

5min
pages 68-69

World Patient Safety Day

2min
page 70

Methadone COVID study

2min
page 66

Community Healthcare Networks progress

5min
pages 62-63

National Clinical Programme for Early Intervention Teams in Psychosis

3min
page 64

HSE award for chronic disease

4min
page 65

First call for proposals on changes to screening

2min
page 60

Adolescent young adult cancer care

2min
page 59

Cervical screening – Ruth’s story

5min
pages 56-57

BreastCheck campaign

3min
page 58

Marketing of breast milk substitutes

3min
page 55

Breastfeeding week celebrated

3min
page 54

Is blended care the new normal?

4min
pages 52-53

Continence care and training

2min
page 50

Infection prevention and control training

4min
pages 48-49

HSE aid for overseas

3min
page 47

Nenagh Heart Failure Support Unit

5min
pages 42-43

Project cuts wait times

4min
page 41

Rheum to Recover initiative

2min
page 45

Diabetic treatment for Donegal

2min
page 40

Virtual tour for young patients

3min
page 38

Song and dance a boost for dementia patients

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page 37

Dementia survey

3min
page 36

GP access to diagnostics extended

4min
page 39

Memory Resource Technology Rooms

5min
pages 34-35

COVID memorial in Tallaght

2min
page 31

Day care resumes for older people

3min
page 30

Community Intervention Team

3min
pages 26-27

Tablet loan scheme for service

3min
page 28

Quitters feel fantastic after lockdown

2min
page 29

Labour of love at the Coombe

2min
page 25

Vaccines protect mum and baby

2min
page 24

Flu vaccine awards

5min
pages 22-23

Get up, get dressed, get moving

5min
pages 20-21

COVID – telling our stories

5min
pages 18-19

CEO message

2min
page 3

Steps to Health Challenge

3min
page 11

Off-duty nurse saves wedding guest

6min
pages 6-7

Health Service Excellence Awards

11min
pages 8-10

Minister for Health praises healthcare staff

6min
pages 12-13

Patient Council makes appeal

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page 15

Frontline choir

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