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Aimed at Clinicians and Managers, this national virtual conference will provide a practical guide to human factors in healthcare, and how a human factors approach can improve patient care, quality, process and safety.
“Today, patient harm due to unsafe care is a large and growing global public health challenge and is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. Most of this patient harm is avoidable”
“Human factors refer to environmental, organisational and job factors, and human and individual characteristics, which influence behaviour [at work] in a way which can affect health and safety’”
“Getting the human factors right minimises error, and maximises performance. It makes it easier to do the right thing, and harder to do the wrong thing. Over 1.3 million people work in the NHS, treating more than a million patients a day. We need to ensure that our staff are equipped with the underlying principles that enable them to be flexible enough and resilient enough to deliver high quality care, for the safety of our patients. Having an understanding of human factors is one way to address this.”
This conference will enable you to:
- Network with colleagues who are working to embed a human factors approach
- Learn from outstanding practice in using human factors and ergonomics to improve patient safety and quality
- Reflect on national developments and learning including the patient safety syllabus and new role of patient safety specialist
- Understand the tools and methodology
- Develop your skills in training and educating frontline staff in human factors
- Understand how you can improve patient safety incident investigation by using a human factors approach
- Learn from case studies demonstrating the practical application of human factors to improve patient care
- Self assess and reflect on your own practice
- Supports CPD professional development and acts as revalidation evidence. This course provides 5hrs training for CPD subject to peer group approval for revalidation purposes
