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The Deteriorating Patient Summit focuses on recognising and responding to the deteriorating patient through improving the reliability of patient observations and ensuring quality of care. The conference will include National Developments including the recent recommendations on NEWS2 and Covid-19, and implementing the recommendations from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Report Investigation into recognising and responding to critically unwell patients. The conference will include practical case study based sessions on identifying patients at risk of deterioration, improving practice in patient observations, responding to the deteriorating patient, improving escalation and understanding success factors in escalation, sepsis & Covid-19, involving patients and families in recognising deterioration, and improving the communication and use of NEWS2 in the community, including care homes, and at the interface of care.
“We know that NEWS2 can predict a patient’s deterioration from any cause. It was reassuring to prove that this also applies to COVID-19 and that the NEWS2 score, already used in hospitals all over the country, can predict which patients are sickest and which are likely to get worse. The fact that the oxygen levels and respiratory rate are the most sensitive has also helped us understand how we can monitor patients with COVID-19 safely in the community.”
“Problems in recognising and responding to patients who are deteriorating continues to be a major source of severe harm and preventable death in hospitals. Previous research has shown that up to a quarter of preventable deaths are related to failures in clinical monitoring.”
“Improving the identification and management of deteriorating patients is a major patient safety priority for the NHS. In these unprecedented times, spotting deterioration and acting quickly has become more important than ever.”
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to improve the recognition and management of deteriorating patients
- Learn from outstanding practice in improving care for deteriorating patients
- Implement the recommendations from the HSIB Investigation into responding to critically unwell patients
- Reflect on national developments and learning including latest evidence on effective implementation of NEWS2 including in patients with Covid-19
- Understand the practicalities of involving patients and their families in the recognition of deterioration
- Develop your skills in identifying deteriorating patients including those with Covid-19
- Understand what success factors facilitate escalation of care and how can these be applied more reliably
- Ensure effective implementation of NEWS2
- Understand how to work with clinical teams to create a language and spread this across the whole health system
- Self assess, reflect and expand your skills in the management of sepsis, and communicating the risks to patients who have recovered from Covid-19
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
