Health Professions: Operating Theatres
(asked on 13th June 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the the potential merits of NHS England making huddles mandatory for all medical staff at the start of the day in operating theatres.
The use of the World Health Organization (WHO) safety checklist for surgical interventions is universally acknowledged to be best practice and is well supported by the relevant Royal Colleges and professional associations. Trusts are expected to track performance against elements and stages of the checklist. There are three stages: ‘sign in’, ‘time out’ and ‘sign out’.
Huddles correspond to the ‘time out’ stage of checklist completion. Failure to use this part of the checklist would be flagged through Care Quality Commission inspection or staff concerns, and would be viewed by NHS Improvement as a serious deficiency in a trust’s safety standards.
However, as with a number of procedures that are considered best practice, mandating the WHO safety checklist for all surgical interventions across the whole of the health service at all times could give rise to unintended risk on those occasions when there is a need to act immediately to save life and a delay in surgical action could be detrimental.
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24/12/2019 - HM Courts & Tribunals Service (HMCTS)
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Found:
Respondent:
Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
HELD AT:
Manchester
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Published 5 August 2019
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and Auditor General
Department of Health & Social Care
Review of capital
expenditure in the NHS
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10 December 2020 Dear
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4. Covid-19 Update
16/03/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: repeat a Statement made in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for Health. The Statement is - Speech Link
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27/11/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: Community pharmacies play a vital role in our health service, but we know they can do more, and we are - Speech Link
2: keeping the pressure off GPs and off secondary care by making sure that people can help themselves to stay - Speech Link
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1: (Urgent Question) To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care if he will make a statement - Speech Link
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11/06/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: Meanwhile, nearly 60 countries worldwide have adopted mandatory mask wearing. During that period, we have registered - Speech Link
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25/06/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: regulations that we are discussing were made by the Secretary of State on 31 May and came into force on 1 - Speech Link
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24/06/2020 - Commons Chamber
1: expresses thanks to the heroic work of frontline NHS staff who have saved lives throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; - Speech Link
2: expresses thanks to the heroic work of frontline NHS staff who have saved lives throughout the Covid-19 pandemic; - Speech Link
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