STRENGTH IN NUMBERS

Strength in Numbers dedicated to my late mother Kay

30/06/2017 • 9:00 am 0

MyNotes Medical – Download the app to your mobile or tablet.

The MyNotes Medical program has been designed to help people care for themselves, their loved ones and their patients (even if they are carers or health practitioners)   

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MyNotes Medical

http://www.mynotesmedical.com

The MyNotes Medical program has been designed to help people care for themselves, their loved ones and their patients (even if they are carers or health practitioners)

Users of the app can keep and share accurate and accessible records of their health condition and treatment at the tap of a finger.

To Take Notes: Recording robust written, audio and visual notes with the MyNotes Medical app enables patients to be more “informed, involved and engaged in getting better”.

The rich, chronological event log of text, audio, video and photo notes is automatically built and secured in a searchable format by the MyNotes Medical app. Users of the MyNotes Medical app can easily add their personal information and details of treatment, medications, and appointments.

To Share Notes: MyNotes Medical users can easily refer to and share all of these details – including an accurate record of what was said as treatment progresses.

To Research Health Issues between visits to the doctor or consultant, MyNotes Medical allows patients and carers to review and share recordings of the consultation/diagnosis with friends and family and to research vetted sites about related healthcare issues.

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19/07/2016 • 7:14 am 0

Doctors’ basic errors are killing 1,000 patients a month. Biggest ever study of errors in British hospitals finds one in ten patients affected

Almost 12,000 patients are dying needlessly in NHS hospitals every year because of basic errors by medical staff, according to the largest and most detailed study into hospital deaths ever performed in the UK.

The researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and colleagues found something went wrong with the care of 13 per cent of the patients who died in hospitals. An error only caused death in 5.2 per cent of these – equivalent to 11,859 preventable deaths in hospitals in England.

Helen Hogan, who led the study, said: “We found medical staff were not doing the basics well enough – monitoring blood pressure and kidney function, for example. They were also not assessing patients holistically early enough in their admission so they didn’t miss any underlying condition. And they were not checking side-effects… before prescribing drugs.”

Click on the link to read more

http://goo.gl/FFgshf

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20/06/2016 • 4:21 pm 0

Hospital apologises to parents after damning report on handling of baby’s death

Bristol Children’s Hospital has issued an ‘unreserved’ apology to the parents of a baby who died in its care, after a report found staff had been ‘insensitive’ and had ‘failed to get a grip of the real issues’ following the death of Benjamin Condon.

In one incident, senior staff held a recorded meeting with Benjamin’s parents, and when Allyn and Jenny Condon left the room, the doctors admitted mistakes had been made in Benjamin’s care, and then tried to delete that part of the recording:  Eight week-old Benjamin Condon died of a lung infection while in Bristol Children’s Hospital. Doctors there had originally diagnosed him with a virus – thought to be part of a common cold. But he continued to deteriorate.

On 17 April 2015, nurses told Benjamin’s parents that they would start him on a course of antibiotics, but they were not administered. By the afternoon, he was diagnosed with sepsis and organ failure, and suffered a cardiac arrest. Antibiotics were finally given around 8pm, but he died slightly more than an hour later. His parents were not told about the secondary infection until seven weeks after his death.

A two-day inquest into his death begins tomorrow morning (Tuesday 21 June) at Avon Coroner’s Court, to determine exactly how he died.

Click on the link to read more

http://www.itv.com/news/west/2016-06-20/hospital-apologises-to-parents-after-damning-report-on-babys-death/

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Benjamin Condon shortly before he died. Credit: Condon family

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26/05/2016 • 5:39 pm 1

NHS failing to learn lessons from complaints, says health ombudsman

A snapshot of complaints received by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) reveals a high number of complaints made to the NHS and consistent failure to learn from mistakes, the PHSO has said.

Of the 133 cases in the report, which were investigated between July and September last year, 93 were about the NHS. In another PHSO report last year, nearly 80% of complaints were about the NHS.

Julie Mellor, the PHSO, said: “The NHS provides excellent care for patients every day, which is why it is so important that when mistakes are made they are dealt with well.

“These cases bring home all the suffering patients and their families experience when things go wrong, particularly when complaints are not handled effectively at a local level. Families have been left without an explanation as to why their loved ones died, mistakes have not been admitted, which means that much needed service improvements are being delayed.”

In one incident in the report, Alder Hey Children’s FT was required to pay £1,000 compensation to the complainant after it took 29 months to diagnose her son with autism and dyslexia, meaning he missed out on early intervention and support.

Click on the link to read more

http://www.nationalhealthexecutive.com/Health-Care-News/nhs-failing-to-learn-lessons-from-complaints-says-health-ombudsman

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21/05/2016 • 7:28 am 0

My Story With Addisons Disease – Justice for Robbie Powell! article by Malisha Fuller

Let’s see how many shares we can get for justice for this family and awareness.

Because of negligence by medical professionals, Robert Darren Powell [Robbie] died on April 17, 1990 at the young age of 10. Four months before his death, he suffered from all the classical symptoms of Addison’s disease or Adrenal Insufficiency. Robbie had suffered from an Addisonian crisis and almost died in December 1989 when he was admitted to hospital as a medical emergency.

The medical professionals suspected Addison’s disease and ordered the ACTH test but did not share this information with his parents who would have ensured the test was carried out. Instead, the physicians blamed Robbie’s symptoms on gastroenteritis, which was untenable in the absence of diarrhoea, the high potassium, low sodium and low blood sugar.

Robbie was seen by 5 different doctors, on 7 separate occasions, in the last 15 days of his life. He was seen by 3 doctors, 4 times, in his last 3 days. Although the young boy was obviously unwell not one physician performed blood tests or even checked his blood pressure during this period. The medical physicians failed Robbie by not referring the child to a specialist, as requested in the medical notes. They also failed to admit him to the hospital to evaluate his condition thoroughly until it was too late to save his life. An Addison’s patient does not produce sufficient amounts of the hormone cortisol so therefore needs daily steroids to maintain life. Infection, stress, injury and surgery for Addison’s sufferers require additional steroids.

Click on the link to read the whole story

My Story With Addisons Disease

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13/07/2015 • 8:44 am 0

Why do I need MyNotes Medical? Warning: Lack of notes can kill

We want to ask you:

What if better communication between patient and NHS could prevent needless illness or death?

Warning: Lack of notes can kill!

Every year, thousands of NHS patients suffer needlessly. Doctors are over­worked, mistakes are made and billions of pounds are wasted. The question is, why?

If you have ever been a patient, or your loved one has, you may know for yourself the confusion and stress that often occurs:

  • You don’t understand what the doctor or consultant is saying
  • Your story is not taken seriously
  • You find it difficult to recall your diagnosis or treatment, since you have no notes to refer to
  • Perhaps, as a result you are sent away with the wrong diagnosis, or you have to make several appointments.

This is critical:

You don’t understand everything that the medical professionals are asking or saying to you; no one seems to have access to your loved one’s medical history and you are worried that you may generalise, delete or distort something critical when telling people what they need to know. All of this wastes precious time in which you or your loved one could be receiving proper treatment.

The problem is down to a breakdown in communication between patient and consultant. And, the problem has been publicly recognised and acknowledged.

Trouble is, all too often the solution has been developed by medical professionals for the ‘benefit’ of patients but NOT by patients themselves and NOT from a patient’s perspective.

Would you feel better if you could

Take Video’s,  Record conversations, Take Photo’s that are automatically synchronised with your PC in date order to review, share and keep you in control?

Yes! That’s why you and your loved ones need MyNotes Medical. Written by Patients for Patients.

You are just one click away  http://goo.gl/3rf9c7

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04/07/2015 • 11:01 am 0

Senior doctor urges Welsh NHS to improve medical training after ‘unimaginable mistakes’ were made prior to his mother’s death

  • Dr Amer Jafar claims ‘unimaginable mistakes’ led to his mother’s death
  • Concerns led to investigation into her care at University Hospital of Wales 
  • Three-and-a-half hour delay identifying and treating her condition, three-hour delay giving her pain relief and six-hour delay giving her antibiotics
  • Dr Jafar says he wants to make sure all doctors are trained adequately

A leading doctor is today leading calls for the Welsh NHS to improve its medical training after his mother died of a heart attack following ‘inadequate care’.

Dr Amer Jafar, one of Wales’ most senior medical consultants, was awarded £4,000 compensation after an investigation uncovered a spate of failings in the care of his 79-year-old mother. Dr Jafar called for the investigation after he said ‘unimaginable mistakes’ were made at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff over his mother Zahar Al Hasani’s death. A report found there was a three-and-a-half hour delay in identifying and treating her condition when she was taken into hospital.It also found there was a similar three-hour delay in giving her pain relieving paracetamol and then a six hour delay in giving her antibiotics.

Dr Jafar made a complaint to the health board after claiming his mother’s poor care had led to her suffering a fatal heart attack in March 2014. He said his elderly mother, who had a history of heart disease, was assessed wrongly by a doctor in his final year of training who ‘misdiagnosed and mismanaged’ her sepsis and failed to follow the ‘sepsis pathway’.

Click on the link to read more

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3148460/Senior-doctor-urges-Welsh-NHS-improve-medical-training-unimaginable-mistakes-prior-mother-s-death.html

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Dr Amer Jafar

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29/06/2015 • 1:46 pm 0

Please show me that you really care

Do you want to make people’s lives better?

Do you want to make your children’s and your parents lives better?

Are you concerned with the amount of medical mistakes in the news?

Are you a thinker or a doer?

Do you really care? 

Click on the link and show me that you really care http://goo.gl/3rf9c7

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12/04/2015 • 10:10 am 0

Coroner condemns hospital over death of newborn twin who died an hour after birth from brain damage after a doctor’s errors

Doctors at a scandal-hit hospital covered up a series of horrendous mistakes that led to the death of a twin baby boy, a coroner has ruled.

Thor Dalhaug died an hour after birth following a difficult delivery during which he suffered fatal brain damage due to a doctor’s errors, ruled Stuart Fisher, senior coroner for Central Lincolnshire. In a damning report, he said an unsupervised junior surgeon tried to deliver the baby using forceps in an ‘unorthodox and unacceptable’ way. The coroner also concluded that senior managers at Lincoln County Hospital had tried to remove the fact that forceps had been used from an account of the birth.

The report will come as a blow to the hospital, which has just been taken out of ‘special measures’. United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust was put on a turnaround regime almost two years ago because of concerns over high death rates.

Click on the link to read more

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3035331/Coroner-condemns-Lincoln-County-Hospital-death-newborn-twin-died-hour-birth-brain-damage-doctor-s-errors.html

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Doctors at the Lincoln County Hospital covered up a series of horrendous mistakes that led to the death of a twin baby boy (pictured above with his mother Michelle), a coroner has ruled

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05/03/2015 • 7:32 am 0

Shocking NHS op blunders that should NEVER happen revealed by Daily Mirror

A patient died after being given the wrong type of blood and another had a testicle removed unnecessarily – just two of the shocking NHS blunders uncovered by the Daily Mirror.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said six mistakes like these are happening in hospitals every week. They are called “never events” – because they are so bad they should never happen. And our probe under the Freedom of Information Act exposes some of the shocking details for the first time. In one case a patient was told they had cancer and had part of their nose chopped off by mistake, while a second was wrongly told they didn’t have cancer.

Katherine Murphy, chief executive of the Patients Association, said: “As suggested by the name, these sorts of events are utterly unacceptable and pose a huge risk to patient safety and well-being. “While we accept accidents will sometimes occur, it is vital that lessons are learnt each time to ensure they aren’t repeated. “This is yet another reminder of the need to properly fund the regulation of healthcare to ensure that it detects patterns of errors such as these, and acts to ensure that no more patients are put at risk.”

Roger Goss, director of Patient Concern, said: “If the concept is to achieve a reduction in harm to patients, staff responsible for these never events should be fired. That is what would happen in the private sector. Unfortunately, getting rid of anyone from the NHS, however careless or incompetent, is virtually impossible.”

WRONG NOSE: WRONG BLOOD: WRONG BIOPSY:

WRONG TESTICLE:

Click on the link to read these shocking hospital blunders

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/shocking-nhs-op-blunders-should-5276548?

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23/05/2014 • 8:50 am 0

Mistakes by NHS staff are killing 12,500 every year: And they operate on wrong body part once a week, reveals Hunt

Health secretary said some serious errors happen six times a week
He said: ‘Twice a week we leave a foreign object… inside someone’s body’
Up to one in 20 deaths in hospitals can be avoided, according to research

Click on the link to read more

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2636835/Mistakes-NHS-staff-killing-12-500-year-And-operate-wrong-body-week-reveals-Hunt.html

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