Patient Safety

Investigating and Reporting Serious Clinical Incidents

Russell Kelsey

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CRC Press Inc
17 February 2017

Medical ethics & professional conduct

At a time of increasing regulatory scrutiny and medico-legal risk, managing serious clinical incidents within primary care has never been more important. Failure to manage appropriately can have serious consequences both for service organisations and for individuals involved.

This is the first book to provide detailed guidance on how to conduct incident investigations in primary care. The concise guide:

explains how to recognise a serious clinical incident, how to conduct a root cause analysis investigation, and how and when duty of candour applies covers the technical aspects of serious incident recognition and report writing includes a wealth of practical advice and 'top tips', including how to manage the common pitfalls in writing reports offers practical advice as well as some new and innovative tools to help make the RCA process easier to follow explores the all-important human factors in clinical incidents in detail, with multiple examples and worked-through cases studies as well as in-depth sample reports and analysis.

This book offers a master class for anyone performing RCA and aiming to demonstrate learning and service improvement in response to serious clinical incidents. It is essential reading for any clinical or governance leads in primary care, including GP practices, 'out-of-hours', urgent care centres, prison health and NHS 111. It also offers valuable insights to any clinician who is in training or working at the coal face who wishes to understand how serious clinical are investigated and managed.

By: Russell Kelsey
Imprint: CRC Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781498781169
ISBN 10: 1498781160
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 17 February 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Replaced By: 9781032377834
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Russell Kelsey is Regional Medical Director of North and West, Health Care Division, Care UK, the largest independent provider of NHS care in the UK. His role encompasses clinical governance for provision of out of hours and NHS 111 services to a region with a patient population of over 5 million. He is also Care UK Subject Matter Expert in Serious Clinical Incident investigation and provides CPD accredited training in SI recognition and RCA for both internal Care UK staff as well as for NHS colleagues from outside the organisation Russell has received training from both NPSA and NCAS in case management and is NPSA trained as a

Reviews for Patient Safety: Investigating and Reporting Serious Clinical Incidents

This is a well organised, well written, and absorbing book offers a real masterclass for anyone performing Root Analysis and aiming to demonstrate learning and service improvement in response to serious clinical incidents. It should be essential reading for any clinical or governance leads in primary care, including GP practices, out-of-hours, urgent care centres, prison health and NHS 111. Jacky Steemson, OS&H Journal, July 2017