Human Factors examples in Patient Safety John Pickles - CHFG Trustee

John Pickles, Clinical Human Factors Trustee describes how the WHO checklist and design changes benefited patient safety. Further reading  WHO Safer Surgery checklist HSIB Report – Wrong route...

How can standardisation improve Patient Safety? John Pickles - CHFG Trustee

John Pickles, Clinical Human Factors Trustee describes how standardisation of implantable devices and design changes make it easier to do the right thing. Further reading CQC  Learning from never...

How did you introduce the Safer Surgery Checklist? John Pickles - CHFG Trustee

John Pickles, Clinical Human Factors Trustee shares his experience of integrating the WHO checklist using improvement methodology to test and ensure staff ownership of the change. Further reading WHO Safer Surgery...

What does ‘drifting’ look like in healthcare? Nikki Davey - CHFG Trustee

Nikki Davey, Clinical Human Factors Group Trustee, provides examples of ‘drifting’ or ‘creating new norms’ that impact patient safety. When the gap grows between work as imagined and work as done staff may move away from the high standard of...

Why don’t we talk about ‘drifting’ more? Nikki Davey - CHFG Trustee

Nikki Davey, Clinical Human Factors Group Trustee, talks about the tendency to drift away from standards, rules and procedures and the gap between work as imagined and work as...