Emergency Medicine national conference – 9 October
NHS Resolution will be holding an emergency medicine conference on Monday 9 October 2023 at the Royal College of Physicians. The national event, entitled Implementing recommendations: Shared insights to reduce claims in emergency medicine, is to bring together professionals working in emergency departments across England …
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Publication of 2023 Claims Scorecards
We have made our 2023 claims scorecards available on our extranet for our members and have supported this with an email on Tuesday 29 August 2023. Our scorecard is a unique, interactive tool in an excel format to assist NHS trusts and their clinical teams …
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Case study addition to our team reviews offering
On 12 July, our Practitioner Performance Advice service published its first team reviews case study. This study was designed to explore the team review process and explains why a team review was necessary, how the process unfolded and the outcomes. While not based on a …
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Early Notification case stories
In ‘Resolution through collaboration’, NHS Resolution’s 2025-28 Strategy, our second strategic priority is to contribute our unique data and insights to learn from harm and our third is to support maternity and neonatal safety improvements. Aligned with these aims we have gathered together learning from …
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Launch of resources on preventing needlestick injuries
We received 2,600 claims for needlestick injuries for incidents occurring in the period 2012-2022. Of these, 1,947 were successful claims, costing the NHS £10.8 million. Currently, 167 claims remain open and are still being considered. Needlestick injuries can be costly to investigate and increase the …
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Learning from venous thromboembolisms
From 1 April 2012 until 31 March 2022 we documented 687 closed claims relating to venous thromboembolism (VTE) injuries. Of these, 411 claims were settled with damages paid costing the NHS over £23 million. VTE is an umbrella term for deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary …
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Publication of the first two Insights papers of 2023
Our Practitioner Performance Advice service has published its first two Insights papers of 2023. Supporting the management of performance concerns within primary care was published on 30 March 2023 and analyses over 700 primary care advice cases received between April 2017 and March 2022. By …
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Practitioner Performance Advice launches latest Insights paper on action plans
Our Practitioner Performance Advice service has today published its latest Insights paper: Professional Support and Remediation (PSR): key features of recent action plans which aims to raise awareness of how the PSR service can help frontline NHS organisations retain valued, experienced practitioners who need targeted …
