News and Updates from today's #StopthePressure conference
National Developments: Pressure Ulcer Best Practice Bundle & Clinical Pathway & The National Pressure Ulcer Surveillance System
• NWCSP update
• implementation of the new national Pressure Ulcer Surveillance system using The Model Hospital System
• national metrics
• the National Pressure Ulcer Best Practice Bundle & Clinical Pathway
• implementing the new national Pressure Ulcer Surveillance system in practice
• implications of the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
• preparing for the new surveillance system
• the role of the Model Ambassador
• driving improvement and learning from the pilot sites
Ms Jackie Stephen-Haynes
Professor in Wound Healing, Birmingham City University
Jackie is a Professor of Wound Healing at Birmingham City University Practice Development Unit and is the course lead for Masters in Wound Healing & Tissue Repair. Jackie retired from the NHS after 40 years, having worked within Orthopaedics, District Nursing and finally as a Consultant Nurse in Tissue Viability. This role providing a strategic and operational role in Tissue Viability across the Worcestershire Health Care Trust. This included education and clinical care for patients in their own homes, community hospitals, care homes and hospices across Worcestershire.
Jackie has developed and led the implementation of BSc and Masters level accredited courses including tissue Viability, Leg ulcer care, Infection control in Tissue Viability, Palliative care in tissue Viability and Pressure ulcer prevention and the implementation of Tissue Viability education for pre- registration. Jackie has been an external examiner for 10 years.
Jackie is Chair of the Wound Care Alliance UK a, large charity with the remit of providing educational resources to support the delivery of best practices in Tissue Viability. The charity has members from across the NHS, Care home sector, Hospices, private care, independent care and industry.
Jackie is passionate about education and its impact on delivery of care and providing high quality of care to patients. Jackie has presented nationally and internationally and has received several national awards.
Jackie works as an independent consultant in Tissue Viability and has a particular interest in end of life and palliative wound care.
Pressure Ulcers and the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF): Lessons from an early adopter
• embedding PSIRF as an early adopter
• improving the response and investigation of incidents
• implications for patient safety investigations into pressure ulcers
Speakers
Ms Megan Pontin
Patient Safety Incident Investigator, West Suffolk Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
MA, BA(Hons), BSc, RN (Adult)
Megan is a Registered Nurse with 30 years’ clinical experience. The majority of this experience was obtained in critical care nursing, including 21 years at Royal Papworth Hospital. This period supported her development from bedside nurse to Senior Staff Nurse, Sister, Critical Care Practitioner and Matron.
In 2018, Megan moved to Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in a role which allowed her to pursue an interest in quality improvement and patient safety. She has a particular interest in how best to enable busy frontline staff to embed continuous improvement related to patient safety into their everyday work.
This interest has been further developed since Megan joined the patient safety team at the West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in 2021. As this organisation is an Early Adopter site for the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), this allowed Megan to participate in the implementation of PSIRF at both local and organisational level, whilst contributing to the wider learning by sharing with other Early Adopter organisations and the NHSE patient safety team as they support the national adoption of PSIRF.
In her current role, Megan is a Learning Response Lead for Patient Safety Investigations and supports the work of the wider patient safety team as the trust moves through our third year of PSIRF.
