Lyn Brierley-Jones

Teesside University · Advanced Clinical Practice

Background Acute inpatient mental health services report high levels of safety incidents. The application of patient safety theory has been sparse, particularly concerning interventions that proactively seek patient perspectives. Objective(s) Develop and evaluate a theoretically based, digital monitoring tool to collect real-time information from...

In psychiatry, clustered safety incidents are often attributed to behavioural contagion. Drawing on Kindermann and Skinner’s conceptual work in our analysis of staff accounts, we explored whether clustered safety incidents could be attributable to contagion and the role played by staff and the psychiatric milieu (as a physical, cultural, and therap...

Accessible Summary What is known on the subject Mental health wards can feel unsafe. We know that patients and staff have different ideas about what makes a hospital ward safe or unsafe. Patients are often the first to know when the atmosphere on a ward becomes tense, but often, no one asks them for their views. Patients and staff are experts and...

Background: There is a growing need to involve patients in the development of patient safety interventions. Mental health services, despite their strong history of patient involvement, have been slow to develop patient safety interventions, particularly in inpatient settings. Methods: A systematic search was undertaken of both academic and grey...

Unlicensed medicines (ULMs) are those which have not received authorisation from a regulator, as such they do not have the same reassurances around safety and efficacy as licensed medicines. This study aimed to explore the use of ULMs from the perspectives of prescribers, pharmacists and patients within the UK National Health Service (NHS) setting....

The 19th century saw the development of an eclectic medical marketplace in both the United Kingdom and the United States, with mesmerists, herbalists and hydrotherapists amongst the plethora of medical ‘sectarians’ offering mainstream (or ‘allopathic’) medicine stiff competition. Foremost amongst these competitors were homoeopaths, a group of pract...

DingesMartin (ed.), Patients in the history of homoeopathy, Network Series 5, Sheffield, European Association for the History of Medicine and Health Publications, 2002, pp. xiii, 434, UK £39.95, Europe £43.33, USA £52.10, elsewhere £47.82 (hardback 0-9536522-4-6). - Volume 48 Issue 4 - Lyn Brierley-Jones