20. vte - dr shah

VTE

AMIT SHAHVTE LEADCONSULTANT TRAUMA AND ORTHOPAEDICS

VTE

Clinical consequences of avoidable VTE Financial consequences of avoidable VTE Complaints Cost to the Trust, reputation and more Cost of upsetting CQC Cost of upsetting CCGs

VTE

Clinical consequences of avoidable VTE

Failure to assess, reassess, prescribe and prevent a VTE episode is

NEGLIGENCE

VTE

Failure to assess, reassess, prescribe and prevent a VTE

VTE

Failure to assess, reassess, prescribe and prevent a VTE

VTE

Failure to assess, reassess, prescribe and prevent a VTE

VTE

VTE committee can’t

• Do your job for you

• Take responsibility for failures

VTE

Failure to assess, reassess, prescribe and prevent a VTE

• The responsibility needs to lie with individual team: FYs to Consultants !

• Doctor responsible for the patient also responsible for any hospital attributable VTE

VTE

VTE

• We need engagement from all present if we are going to recover

• Named ‘champion’ in every department • Need each department to undertake an audit

internally as a matter of urgency ? Sept 18• Need feedback from those audits to see which

department/division can set an example

VTE

VTE

• Need each department to undertake an audit internally as a matter of urgency : Sept 18

• Need feedback from those audits to see which department/division can set an example

• Repeat Trust wide Re-Audit October 2018

VTE champions for the Trust

Marina Ransome Mirela Popa Laura Horne Samuel Donaldson Alexandra Muston Pravthi Shetty Natasha Ponniah

VTEWE NEED TO DO BETTERA LOT BETTER

Amit Shah: amit.shah4@nhs.netMarina Ransome: marinaransome@doctors.org.uk