SEIPS in Maternity Epsom and St Helier

The Simulation Team and Maternity Services at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust have developed this staff education film to support open and honest dialogue, in line with a using a systems-based approach. The film was inspired by real service user and...

Patient Experience after Covid

Health and care organisations started warning about the pressures they were under last autumn – this report by the Patient Association shows what those pressures mean for patients in real life.  It analyses the results of a survey, conducted over a period of a month...

Protect yourself, protect the NHS

While everyone in healthcare across the UK is working tirelessly during this crisis there are others that want to take advantage of the pandemic via cyberspace, the online environment in which all of us now live and work.Criminals will be targeting both you and the...

A year ago on 3 April 2020, the NHS Nightingale Hospital, London opened with capacity for 500 ventilated patients. With their specialist human factors expertise, Bryn Baxendale and colleagues conducted detailed observations during the early days and reflect here on...

THIS Institute – Managing an obstetric emergency during Covid 19

The COVID-19 pandemic provides new challenges for the safety of people receiving and providing maternity care.THIS Institute, in collaboration with the PROMPT Maternity Foundation, undertook a rapid-response consultation exercise to understand what good looks like for...

Key Human Factors messages when working under pressure

Key Human Factors messages when working under pressure Over the last few days we’ve been listening to frontline staff in the UK and abroad to assess how we might support people through the current emergency.  We have already connected clinicians with human factors...