Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

“Write to all UK Postgraduate Deans to request that they ensure their induction programmes for Foundation doctors are in protected time; include best practice; and, reinforce the requirements of Foundation Professional Capability 18: recognises and works within limits of personal competence;”

“The revised draft guideline was recently shared at our Quality Improvement Half Days on 16th May, asking teams and specialties to take note of the requirements of the guideline and to highlight any challenges they see in implementing the changes and providing any solutions.”

“We are going to amend our inpatient falls policy. This will help us to ensure that post incident monitoring is undertaken. It will also more clearly link our standards in ED and on the wards. It is unacceptable that in this situation the requested monitoring was discontinued. Our use of Vital Pac and the upcoming installation of our new electronic patient record by Christmas 2017 will provide decision support and alerts to reinforce our standards. These changes will be complete by the end of March”