by admin | Jul 11, 2024 | All Resources, COVID-19, Human Factors & Ergonomics
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...
by admin | Jan 27, 2022 | All Resources, COVID-19
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...
by admin | Aug 20, 2021 | COVID-19
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...
by admin | Jun 7, 2021 | All Resources, COVID-19
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...
by admin | Nov 26, 2020 | All Resources, 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...
by admin | May 17, 2020 | All Resources, COVID-19, How To Guides, Human Factors & Ergonomics, Tools & Methods
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...
