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Freedom to Speak Up places patient safety first and is essential to delivering high quality care. This virtual conference focuses on achieving a culture of candour and freedom to speak up. Through national updates, and practical case studies, the conference will ensure you are supporting staff to raise concerns and improve patient safety in a psychologically safe environment.
“Leaders need to be addressing their culture and their behaviours related to workers being able to speak up” Read more here
A report published by the National Guardian’s Office on 31st March 2022 shows the experience of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians amid the continued pressure of the pandemic on the healthcare sector: “While the majority of Freedom to Speak Up Guardians who responded to the survey by the National Guardian’s Office were positive about the speaking up culture in their organisation, there are warning signs that more action is needed. The proportion of guardians who reported a positive culture of speaking up in their organisation has dropped by five percentage points on last year, to 62.8%. This drop correlates with the findings of the 2021 NHS Staff Survey, published 30th March 2022, where the proportion of staff who say they feel safe to speak up about anything which concerns them in their organisation has also fallen by more than three percentage points to 62%." Read the report in full here
The conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to support people to speak up and raise concerns
- Reflect on national developments and learning
- Achieve a Culture of Candour & Freedom to Speak Up
- Establish effective leadership and management behaviours
- Understand the legal context
- Develop your skills in ensuring all staff within the trust feel able to raise any issues or concerns, or challenge any wrongdoing
- Learn from outstanding practice in developing the role of the Freedom to Speak Up Guardian
- Understand how you can improve culture and psychological safety
- Reflect on Freedom to Speak Up during Covid-19
- Identify key strategies for ensuring diversity
- Ensure an effective response to to Raised Concerns, and ensure change occurs
- Deliver transformational change of the culture of fear and blame
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5 Hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
