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A Practical Guide to Human Factors in Healthcare

Tue, 3 Dec 2024

Virtual, Online

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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.

The conference delves into integrating human factors into healthcare systems and processes, clinical decision making, healthcare system design, quality of patient experience, medication safety, and workload, fatigue, and stress management. Throughout the day there will be interactive sessions, small breakout groups, and collaborative exercises, fostering a dynamic learning experience.

"All staff leading learning responses should be able to:

Apply human factors and systems thinking principles to gather qualitative and quantitative information from a wide range of sources.

All staff with oversight roles can:

Apply human factors and systems thinking principles.”

Patient safety incident response standards, NHS England June 2024

“What are Human Factors in healthcare? Enhancing clinical performance through an understanding of the effects of teamwork, tasks, equipment, workspace, culture and organisation on human behaviour and abilities and application of that knowledge in clinical settings” ”

NHS England

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 the role of human factors within the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)

  • 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 and safety

  • Understand the role of human factors in improving culture and delivering psychological safety

  • 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

Speakers include:

Ms Fran Ives

Human Factors Specialist
Health Innovation West Midlands

Professor Rob Galloway

Professor
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust

Ms Angela Carrington

Lead Pharmacist for Medication Safety
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland

Dr Helen Vosper

Chartered Ergonomist and Lead for Patient Safety
School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
University of Aberdeen

Exhibition & Sponsorship Packages

This conference offers a valuable opportunity for industry suppliers to personally meet with their target audience where they will have time to talk and demonstrate the benefits of their products. High quality specialist audiences make having a presence at our events a highly targeted and cost effective marketing channel.

Why Exhibit?

Having a presence at this event will give you the opportunity to:

  • Demonstrate your product, system or service
  • Network and engage with your key audience  
  • Generate new business leads
  • Gain exposure for your brand and raise the profile of your organisation
  • Understand the current needs of your audience and challenges they’re facing
  • Update your knowledge of national policy and local developments  

Enquire

Contact Sarah Jane for exhibition and sponsorship prices, or to discuss a tailored package to suit your needs and budget.

Fee Options

Virtual NHS, Schools, Care and Public Sector

£295.00

(£354.00)

Virtual Voluntary sector & charities

£250.00

(£300.00)

Virtual Commercial organisations

£495.00

(£594.00)

(Prices in brackets include VAT)

Discounts

Additional delegate discount:

A discount of 15% will be applied to fees for any extra delegates.

Online discount:

A discount of 10% will be applied if you pay using the website.

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