An event aimed at driving improvement in patient safety is being hosted by the Clinical Human Factors Group at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 12 March 2014.
'Integrating Human Factors in Healthcare' will enable senior managers, board members, medical and nursing staff to gain insights that will positively impact their role in promoting safety, quality and productivity in healthcare. World experts will be showcasing enduring solutions to patient safety challenges; the programme will have repercussions for both patient and staff experiences.
Highlights of the programme include: The morning plenary will begin with a reflection provided by Sir Liam Donaldson, Special Envoy for Patient Safety WHO, former CMO England on how we have come to understand that ‘to err is human’, and he will be followed by Dr Marty Makary from Johns Hopkins University USA, an international expert in patient safety who served in a leadership role at the World Health Organization for the Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative. He will define what all healthcare workers, from the most senior to the least experienced, can learn from human factors science. A panel of clinical and non-clinical leaders will then consider how this knowledge can be applied to the daily challenges that they all face.
In the afternoon, delegates will hear a patient describe what it feels like when we do not attend effectively to human factors, and from Sir Stephen Moss, former Chairman of Mid Staffordshire and Professor David Haslam, Chair of NICE about how human factors science is beginning to shape the quality agenda and work programme of the NHS. The programme is purposefully interactive so a further panel of leaders and clinicians will debate the issues in more detail, inviting audience participation through question and answer sessions.
In addition, parallel sessions will be delivered by topic experts, practitioners and managers considering issues such as:
• Fit for Purpose: Optimising the workforce through human factors awareness
• What leaders need to know about human factors, to lead effectively and compassionately, to assure a safety culture
• Owning the problem rather than burying it: Human factors appreciation is the key to effective governance
• Human Factors: Translating great ideas into practice
• Standardisation as an Operating Principle – for safer care
To register, visit:
http://www.eventsforce.net/chfg2014
