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Mark Hughes

@markhughes1878.bsky.social

Business & Policy Manager at Patient Safety Learning. Posts on patient safety and a random assortment of other things. Views/opinions expressed entirely my own.

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 8h ago

Upcoming webinar featured on the hub: ▶️ The Safe Healthcare System Patients Deserve: A Call To Action (hosted by @pfps-ireland.bsky.social) 📅 Thursday 17th September 2026 ⏰ 3.00pm BST More details below⬇️ www.pslhub.org/events/event... #WorldPatientSafetyDay #PatientSafety

The Safe Healthcare System Patients Deserve: A Call To Action

This webinar, hosted by Patients for Patient Safety (PFPS) US, will also highlight emergent developments and solutions to longstanding patient safety challenges in the United States.The PFPS US…

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2d ago

Upcoming webinar added to the hub: ▶️ Partners in Safe Care: Lived Experience and Collective Action for Safety in Noncommunicable Diseases (hosted by @iapovoice.bsky.social) 📅 Wednesday 16 September 2026 ⏰ 10.00-11.30am BST More details below⬇️ www.pslhub.org/events/event... #WorldPatientSafetyDay

World Patient Safety Day 2026 Global Webinar: Partners in Safe Care: Lived Experience and Collective Action for Safety in Noncommunicable Diseases

This webinar, hosted by the International Alliance of Patients Organizations, is being organised to mark World Patient Safety Day 2026, aligned with the theme safe care for noncommunicable diseases –…

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2d ago

🆕From data to safer care: the role of stroke audit in improving quality of care - a new blog from @hqip.bsky.social on the hub today. www.pslhub.org/learn/profes... #WorldPatientSafetyDay #PatientSafety #StrokeCare

From data to safer care: the role of stroke audit in improving quality of care

World Patient Safety Day blog on the critical role that national clinical audit plays in supporting safer care for patients with stroke.

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 6d ago

Upcoming webinar featured on the hub: ▶️ The art of noticing: Micro-assertions for patient safety (hosted by @rcsed.bsky.social) 📅 Wednesday 9th September 2026 ⏰ 11.00am-12.00pm BST More details below⬇️ www.pslhub.org/events/event...

The art of noticing: Micro-assertions for patient safety

Sustained education and scholarship over more than 20 years have increased baseline knowledge about the link between surgical workforce diversity, equity, inclusion and patient safety. However, emergi...

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · last wk.

Featured on the hub today, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (@hssib.bsky.social) new Knowledge Exchange. This site is designed to improve access to practical guidance, learning and expertise for those involved in patient safety investigations. www.pslhub.org/learn/invest...

HSSIB Knowledge Exchange

Summary The Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) Knowledge Exchange is designed to improve access to practical guidance, learning and expertise for those involved in patient safety…

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Professional Standards Authority@prof-standards.bsky.social · last wk.

How do you know if a therapist, counsellor or psychotherapist meets professional standards? In this reel, Becca Maberly (A Mother Place) highlights the importance of checking a practitioner's credentials before you book any services. #LookBeforeYouBook https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcsZOnqRGc-/

Becca Maberly 📍 A MOTHER PLACE on Instagram: "PSA: LOOK BEFORE YOU BOOK- and please check that you are trusting your mental health with someone who’s properly qualified to help you. Sadly it is all too easy for people to take advantage of us when we are feeling vulnerable. Anyone can just...

124 likes, 30 comments - amotherplace on August 28, 2026: "PSA: LOOK BEFORE YOU BOOK- and please check that you are trusting your mental health with someone who’s properly qualified to help you. Sadly it is all too easy for people to take advantage of us when we are feeling vulnerable. Anyone can just open up shop as a therapist and start offering their services without proper training So if you or a friend are looking for a therapist, counsellor or psychotherapist, please check for the PSA Quality Mark! (this tells you they have been accredited by the Professional Standards Authority,...

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Helen Hughes@helenh49.bsky.social · 2w ago

Our reflections on AVT and support for @hssib.bsky.social investigation. We outline the value of the proposed approach and suggest a wide range of issues we think need to incorporated into this important work. Great to be collaborating on this review. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...

Ambient voice technology: exploring the patient safety risks (Patient Safety Learning)

In this blog, Patient Safety Learning considers the key patient safety risks related to the use of ambient voice technology in healthcare.

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

Added to the hub, a QualityWatch Indicator from @nuffieldtrust.org.uk which explores patient safety in hospitals. www.pslhub.org/learn/resear... #patientsafety

QualityWatch Indicator: Safety of hospital care (Nuffield Trust, 27 August 2026)

This indictor explores patient safety in hospitals by examining inpatient falls and pressure ulcers, blood clots following hospital care and whether patients are told about medication side effects to…

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

💬At first glance, infection prevention and control might be assumed to be largely missing from this year’s conversation but healthcare-associated infection is a universally relevant threat.💬 A new blog ahead of this year's World Patient Safety Day on the hub. www.pslhub.org/learn/profes...

Why infection prevention and control is critical for patients living with noncommunicable diseases

Noncommunicable diseases, simply put, are long-term diseases that are not passed from person to person. Unlike infectious diseases, which are caused by pathogens and can spread between individuals,…

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Helen Hughes@helenh49.bsky.social · 2w ago

This blog deserves to be shared, read and embraced by every leader in healthcare, especially Board members (execs and non execs). Thank you so much for your insights, reflections and tenacity Beatrice Fraenkel. www.pslhub.org/learn/cultur...

The relationship between culture, leadership, trust and organisational resilience

Blog exploring the relationship between culture, leadership, and patient safety, and how one organisation’s journey shows both the power of getting it right and the risks when it begins to unravel

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

🆕This year's World Patient Safety Day focuses on safe care for noncommunicable diseases. In this blog, Julie Storr explains why infection prevention control is critical in keeping people with noncommunicable diseases safe. www.pslhub.org/learn/profes... #WPSD26 #PatientSafety

Why infection prevention and control is critical for patients living with noncommunicable diseases

Noncommunicable diseases, simply put, are long-term diseases that are not passed from person to person. Unlike infectious diseases, which are caused by pathogens and can spread between individuals,…

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Colchester Museums@colmuseums.bsky.social · 2w ago

The fact that Juliasaurus may not even have been scientifically described yet is what really excites us. 🦖 Seeing a spectacular skeleton is one thing, but getting a glimpse of a fossil that could help rewrite part of the dinosaur family tree is museum magic!

Mark Hughes@markhughes1878.bsky.social · 3w ago

Juliasaurus - a 6.2 metre long therapod, this specimen is nearly 75% real fossil bone. Lived during the Jurassic Period, around 150 million years ago. On display currently at the Hollytrees Museum in Colchester.

Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

The NHS wants to become the world’s most AI-enabled health system. What does that mean for patient safety? In this blog we explore the key patient safety issues related to the increasing use of ambient voice technology in healthcare. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #AI #PatientSafety #DigitalHealth

Ambient voice technology: exploring the patient safety risks (Patient Safety Learning)

In this blog, Patient Safety Learning considers the key patient safety risks related to the use of ambient voice technology in healthcare.

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

💬One of the most important lessons from patient safety research is that deterioration in culture often becomes evident long before patient harm appears in routine performance data.💬 Blog: The relationship between culture, leadership, trust & organisational resilience. www.pslhub.org/learn/cultur...

The relationship between culture, leadership, trust and organisational resilience

Blog exploring the relationship between culture, leadership, and patient safety, and how one organisation’s journey shows both the power of getting it right and the risks when it begins to unravel

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

Last week the Health Services Safety Investigations Body published a new report exploring the patient safety risks related to advice and guidance services in the NHS in England. In this blog we set out our reflections on their findings. www.pslhub.org/learn/invest...

Advice and guidance services: Patient Safety Learning’s response to the latest HSSIB report (20 August 2026)

Summary On the 18 August 2026 the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) published a new report looking at patient safety risks related to advice and guidance (A&G) services in the NHS in…

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

🆕In this blog, Beatrice Fraenkel shares her reflections on the approach taken to establish a just culture at Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust during her fourteen years as Chair of the organisation. www.pslhub.org/learn/cultur... #patientsafety

The relationship between culture, leadership, trust and organisational resilience

Blog exploring the relationship between culture, leadership, and patient safety, and how one organisation’s journey shows both the power of getting it right and the risks when it begins to unravel

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Mark Hughes@markhughes1878.bsky.social · 2w ago

"... we are committing to significant rollouts of AVT software without having in place adequate mechanisms for capturing, analysing and acting on any potential avoidable harm associated with these in use." Ambient voice technology: exploring the patient safety risks. www.pslhub.org/learn/patien...

Ambient voice technology: exploring the patient safety risks (Patient Safety Learning)

In this blog, Patient Safety Learning considers the key patient safety risks related to the use of ambient voice technology in healthcare.

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Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

🆕Ambient voice technology is rapidly being rolled out in healthcare. But are we doing enough to understand and manage the patient safety risks? Read more in our new blog: www.pslhub.org/learn/patien... #AI #PatientSafety #DigitalHealth

Ambient voice technology: exploring the patient safety risks (Patient Safety Learning)

In this blog, Patient Safety Learning considers the key patient safety risks related to the use of ambient voice technology in healthcare.

pslhub.org

Patient Safety Learning@patientsafetylearning.org · 2w ago

Upcoming event featured on the hub: ▶️ AHRQ Webinar: Patient Safety Organizations Supporting Healthcare Providers in Their High Reliability Journey 📅 Tuesday 25 August 2026 ⏰ 6-7pm BST More details below⬇️ www.pslhub.org/events/event... #patientsafety

AHRQ Webinar: Patient Safety Organizations Supporting Healthcare Providers in Their High Reliability Journey

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is hosting a webinar exploring how Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) can support healthcare providers in their High Reliability journey,…

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