Seven days in medicine: 31 July to 6 August 2024

Clinical safetyConfidence to speak out falls to five year lowThe proportion of NHS workers who feel secure in raising concerns about unsafe clinical practice is at a five year low, dropping from 75% in 2021 to 71.3% in 2023, warned Jayne Chidgey-Clark, the NHS national guardian. She said that the findings had “implications for patient safety.” The 2023 staff survey found that medical professionals at all stages of their career were among the NHS staff least confident about reporting unsafe clinical practice. However, there was some improvement about whether people felt safe to “speak up about anything that concerns me in this organisation.” (Full story doi:10.1136/bmj.q1677)Covid-19Psychiatric burden lasts three years, study findsA significant number of patients who were admitted to hospital with covid-19 still experience substantial cognitive and psychiatric effects as much as three years later, a longitudinal study has found. Almost half of the participants experienced moderate to severe…
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