Welcome to the latest issue of Clinical Risk Insights, brought to you by the Clinical Risk Unit of the State Claims Agency. In this issue you will find articles on transfer of care, errors with the specimen and sample collection process, reducing patient safety incidents associated with the use of parenteral nutrition, the sudden unexpected postnatal collapse of a newborn infant and answers to some common State indemnity queries.
In this issue
Transfer of care: focus on handover
In this article, the first in a series focusing on the transfer of care, Wayne Meehan, Clinical Risk Advisor, and Dr Natasha Coen, Senior Clinical Risk Manager, spotlight incidents related to handover during transfer of care and provide advice on what health and social care services can do to minimise their occurrence.
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Errors with the specimen and sample collection process
In this article, Dr Natasha Coen, Senior Clinical Risk Manager and Wayne Meehan, Clinical Risk Advisor, spotlight incidents associated with specimen collection and labelling and provide advice for healthcare professionals to minimise their occurrence.
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Sudden unexpected postnatal collapse of a newborn infant
In the article, Noelle Byrne, Senior Clinical Risk Manager, examines the topic of sudden unexpected postnatal collapse (SUPC) of a newborn infant and provides advice on mitigating the risk of its occurrence.
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Reducing patient safety incidents associated with the use of parenteral nutrition
In this article, Sheila King, Clinical Risk Advisor, outlines learning from incidents related to parenteral nutrition and presents advice* to assist staff in mitigating the risk of these safety incidents.
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Indemnity Corner
In this edition of Indemnity Corner, Marie Hutton, Clinical Risk Legal Advisor, provides advice on some common indemnity queries received by our Clinical Risk Unit.
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Clinical Risk Insights
Clinical Risk Insights is the regular newsletter issued by the Clinical Risk Unit of the State Claims Agency for health and social care workers in Ireland. View past editions of Clinical Risk Insights.
