Colleagues at the HSIB have issued a new report with several recommendations for improvement. HSIB investigated the care of a Patient in a hospital who was found unresponsive in bed. The team confirmed the Patient’s identity and noted that a decision had been made that he was not recommended to receive CPR if his heart …
Access to critical patient information at the bedside (HSIB report) Read More »
A NAMDET colleague is completing his MSc project focusing on the impacts of varying training compliance targets on medical device-related incidents. The hope is to eventually identify an optimum training target (%) for organisations and/or at least identify the significance of the variance in training targets.
Our NAMDET colleagues have designed a poster (which is part of the soon-to-be issued e-learning for medical gases course) and shared it as useful resource. The latest version (8th January 2023) also includes E size cylinder flows and timings too The poster shows a range of different Oxygen cylinder sizes, and the potential contents when …
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NAMDET Wales regional team have met up and secured the Mercure Hotel Conference Centre in Cardiff city centre for the 2023 annual conference. We will also be planning our networking 3-course dinner on the 14th of November as an opportunity to meet up with colleagues, sponsors and our exhibitors too at the same venue. Look …
Save the Date for NAMDET Conference 2023 (Nov 15th) Read More »
NAMDET are pleased to share the link to the Conference 2022 photos and our Networking Dinner. Many thanks to Jordan Lee (Consultant Editor of MDET) our resident photographer for all her hard work in collating, editing and sharing the images. Follow these links to ‘Flickr’ to access and see all the photos. Conference Photos Networking …
NAMDET are pleased to share the final programme for this years conference. Speaker lists, presentation themes and sponsors are all listed in the programme. All attendees will receive their own glossy printed version on arrival, but feel free to share and download your own copy.
Please find the link to NAMDET’s official free-to-all members journal.
Colleagues from NAMDET have agreed to share their conference 2021 presentation and these can now be found inside the updated version of MDET journal. This edition also includes news and updates about NAMDET conference 2022 in York, and how to book your place and reserve a sponsor table. Please free free to share the link, …
Our colleagues at HSIB (Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch) are offering free Enrolment for a range of free investigation education courses The courses include training to support NHS trusts to implement the newly launched Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) by NHS England, as well as safety investigation in general.
The Independent Review has launched a call for evidence to gather insights from experts and organisations, as well as patients and the general public, on the potential racial and gender bias of medical devices. ’Through the call for evidence, which will be open for 8 weeks, it hopes to hear from those who work most closely with …
Views being sought to tackle inequality in medical devices Read More »