TMLEP’s Patient Safety Reports and Clinical Learning Updates provide healthcare providers with intelligence and recommendations (derived from analysis of TMLEP’s healthcare data) to directly improve healthcare standards and patient safety.
TMLEP’s Clinical Updates are provided in order to raise awareness of clinical risk issues and to reduce incidence recurrence and improve patient safety. Facts have been anonymised to maintain data confidentiality, however learning points remain applicable.
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Trusts should ensure that they have an appropriate care pathway to ensure that healthcare professionals understand what to do when a diabetic foot ulcer is identified and that they provide timely care.
Read Article 18 May 2021
Reductions in staff due to positive COVID-19 cases or isolation as well as other COVID measures (such as redeployment) meant that throughout the pandemic there has been a knock-on effect leading to remaining practitioners to cover even more patients than usual. This led to a reduction in available appointments in…
Read Article 11 May 2021
This article discusses the risk factors associated with performing an appendectomy, including not fully visualising the organ and the risk of leaving part of the appendix in situ.
Read Article 27 Apr 2021
A study by TMLEP shows that in these instances when a child is presenting with prolonged headaches, vomiting, and dizziness, a CT scan should be considered. It is important to consider that a CT scan can not only diagnose, but also rule out differential diagnoses such as tumours or other…
Read Article 13 Apr 2021
Before COVID-19, long waiting lists for plastic surgery for non-urgent cases were not unheard of, with clinic appointments taking place anywhere between 1-12 weeks from referral and from thereon, up to 6 months waiting for the operation itself.
Read Article 30 Mar 2021
The field of acute medicine has historically been extremely busy, even before COVID-19, with clinicians accustomed to patients presenting with an array of medical issues and complications, all requiring a quick diagnosis so that they can be cared for by the right clinicians.
Read Article 15 Mar 2021
This clinical article focuses on Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) and how early diagnosis can increase treatment options.
Read Article 08 Mar 2021
Our Partner, THEMIS, has analysed specific COVID-19 cases and interviewed practising GP’s to determine what the emerging litigation risks are arising from COVID-19, in order to explore whether there is a way to prevent these from developing.
Read Article 23 Feb 2021
This article discusses the importance of making sure patients admitted to a mental health unit have access to their usual medication for any other physical conditions.
Read Article 10 Feb 2021