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Tweet The CHFG are delighted to announce the publication of a second ‘How To’ guide. ‘Implementing human factors in healthcare – Taking further steps’, is the second volume of the ‘How to’ guide that was originally published in 2009. Whilst the original volume focused on giving a broad brush overview of human factors, ‘Taking further [...]
Tweet The CHFG is pleased to announce the publication of a new resource, specifically targeting Hospital Boards. “Getting to grips with human factors – strategic actions for safer care”, is a learning resource that recognises the fundamental impact Boards have on safety within their organisation. The aim of the resource is to encourage Boards to [...]
TweetPatient Safety PhD studentship: Feedback and learning from incident reporting Department of Surgery and Cancer The Department of Surgery and Cancer at Imperial College London is offering one 3-year studentship funded by a grant from the NHS Commissioning Board. The PhD research will take place within the context of development of the UK National Reporting and Learning [...]
TweetAs massive growth in civil aviation continues, is the real threat to aviation safety the criminalisation of aircraft accidents? Published in the Royal Aeronautical Society‘s monthly journal, Aerospace International, Caroline Malty reports on whether a worldwide Just Culture is achievable – her report can be read in full HERE. For further information about this article [...]
TweetThe recent BBC Horizon programme, How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery, will no longer be available on iPlayer (from 18/04/13). However, some kind person has uploaded it to YouTube and it can be viewed here: How to Avoid Mistakes in Surgery. BBC Active distributes licences and programmes to educational institutions, charities, businesses, museums and festivals for educational [...]
TweetThe Centre for Patient Safety & Service Quality has just issued its Spring 2013 Newsletter, which can be downloaded HERE. This month’s newsletter includes articles about patient safety and service quality; publication of the month and other useful resources.
TweetA letter written by Rhona Flin, with Martin Bromiley, Peter Buckle and Jane Reid regarding the Mid Staffs Inquiry was recently published in the BMJ and can be downloaded as a pdf HERE or read online HERE
TweetIn his latest blog, Chris Hopson writes: “The NHS has made considerable improvements in the past decade, with demonstrable leaps in performance including reducing waiting lists and improving access times. However, the remain pockets of practice where the quality of patient care is unacceptable.” His blog continues HERE on the Patient Trust Network.
TweetSpeak Against the Boss and Save Lives! Published in SonntagsZeitung on 13 January 2013, this article, written in German, discusses an exercise where the head doctor intentionally made a number of errors. Doctors and nurses did not question their superiors’ actions – two of the errors were so serious that a real patient would have [...]
TweetIn December 2010 Sir Bruce Keogh Medical Director Department of Health / NHS Commissioning Board (England) established a reference group to consider how human factors might be better acknowledged and integrated in the NHS in England, to benefit service delivery and safer patient care. Chaired by Sir Stephen Moss (former Chair of Mid Staffordshire NHS [...]
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