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Risk Management

Risk Management. “It is a mark of the educated man and a proof of his culture that in all matters he looks for only as much detail as the nature of the problem permits or its solution requires.” Aristotle. The components of quality. Attitude Audit Risk Management Patient focus

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Risk Management

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  1. Risk Management

  2. “It is a mark of the educated man and a proof of his culture that in all matters he looks for only as much detail as the nature of the problem permits or its solution requires.” Aristotle

  3. The components of quality • Attitude • Audit • Risk Management • Patient focus • Life-time learning • Systematic care • Valuing practitioners • Supporting innovation From the NHS Plan

  4. Cultural Weak leadership Education and research not valued Cliques and factions Why do things go wrong? Organisational No strategies Poor management Poor communication Sparse infrastructure Individual Poor motivation Poor teamworking Poor attitude Lack of skills External Defensive Fortress mentality Little collaboration

  5. System failures Arrogance Denial Blame Shooting the messenger. Averting the gaze Failure to think ‘systems’ ‘Passive’ learning

  6. What is ‘risk’? Risk is the probability that a situation will produce harm under specific conditions - the probability that something you do not want to happen will happen. It is measured in terms of likelihood and consequences and modified by the frequency of the activity that may lead to risk.

  7. Risk Management • Focus on the system rather than the individual incident • It is anticipatory not reactive in emphasis • Significant event audit and adverse incident reporting therefore supports risk management by monitoring it • It is a relatively new concept in primary care • No systematic reviews or evidence base for primary care

  8. Why do ‘Risk Management’? To enhance patient safety Clinical governance “Organisations with a memory” Complaints procedures Personal/practice development plans Appraisal Re-validation requirement?

  9. Why do ‘Risk Management’? • A number of widely publicised high profile cases • 850,000 adverse incidents per year – 1/3 leading to disability or death1 • 50% avoidable according to US studies • £2 billion/year in additional in-patient stays • £400 million in compensation 1 Vincent C, BMA conference, March 2000

  10. Principal areas of concern • Diagnosis • Prescribing • Communications • Organisational change

  11. Diagnosis In one study • 28% of reported errors in this category • 50% of these had potential for serious harm • Asthma, cancer, dermatology, substance abuse, depression • Tension between under-referral and over-referral • Uncertainty of diagnosis in primary care • No proven benefit from decision support and guidelines

  12. Prescribing • 3-5% problem rate, one third potentially serious • Over a 6 year period 25% settled MDU claims were in this area • Computer assisted prescribing • NSFs and polypharmacy

  13. Communication • Hierarchical structures • Informal communications • Transcription errors • Cross boundary transitions • Non-availability of information

  14. Organisational • Examples from industry • Visible organisational structures and processes • Strategies, goals and philosophies • Beliefs perceptions and feelings • Primary care? • Leadership • SEA • Philosophy • Teamwork • Sharing best practice

  15. Relationship to critical event audit Significant event audit Risk Management

  16. What informs the risk management process?

  17. Organisations with a memory • Unified mechanism for reporting and analysis • ‘Near miss’ concept • A more open culture to discuss service failures • Mechanism for ensuring change happens as a result of lessons learned • Systems approach in preventing, analysing and learning from errors

  18. National Patient Safety Agency Prof Rory Shaw, Chair NPSA

  19. NPSA definition “Any event or circumstance that could have lead to un-intended or unexpected harm, loss or damage”

  20. Possible reportable incidents • Unexpected death while under direct care • Death on premises • Suicide/homicide by patient under treatment for mental disorder • Potentially lethal or serious health care associated infection • Proven rape • Wrong patient/body part • Retained devices • Haemolytic transfusion reaction • Child abduction or incorrect discharge • Incorrect radiation exposure

  21. Benefits • better outcomes and patient satisfaction (improved quality of service) • ability to learn from mistakes • reduced costs of litigation and compensation • better public image • better allocation of resources • more informed decision-making • greater compliance with legislation • greater transparency and accessibility to external review

  22. Examples

  23. Clinical • Failure to adequately examine a patient or appreciate the severity of an illness • Failure to fully document or send samples to the lab • Prescribing errors e.g. drug allergy • Inadequate records • Inexperienced clinical staff or staff asked to exceed their competencies • Inadequate/unavailable medical records • Failure to provide informed consent

  24. Non-clinical • Maintenance of equipment/ buildings • The hostile patient • Waste management • Infection control • Fire safety • Employers liability • Message handling • Staff turn-over • Security of information

  25. Key requirements • Leadership and commitment of an identified individual • Policy and strategy • Planning and organisation • Resourcing • Process - incident reporting and investigation or complaints handling • Claims management • Measurement evaluation and improvement • Audit

  26. What next?

  27. The risk management process • Tea and a break prevents dehydration and boredom! • Tools to assist risk management • Some worked examples.

  28. Risk Assessment for Respite Care

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