Safety 1 to Safety 2 White Paper

White Paper written by Prof. Erik Hollnagel, Prof. Robert L Wears and Prof. Jeffrey Braithwaite looking at Safety 1 and Safety 2 principles.   Looking at how we move from a system of ensuring that as few things as possible go wrong to a system where as many things as...

Mind the Implementation Gap

This report was published on the 7 April 2022 as part of the Safety for All campaign.  This Campaign is focused on driving awareness of the interrelationship between healthcare worker safety and patient safety, highlighting how poor healthcare worker safety standards...

Jonathan O’Reilly, @TheQI_Guy explores the synergies between Quality Improvement and Human Factors with Heather Shearer and Nikki Davey.

Learning from adverse events in surgery

Narinder Kapur, visiting Professor of Neuropsychology at University College London shares his recent article published in Patient Safety in Surgery, regarding his recent hospital experience and the framework he has been using to learn lessons from adverse surgical...

The Safety for All campaign has produced a White Paper calling for improvements in, and between, patient and healthcare worker safety to prevent safety incidents and deliver better outcomes for all by:Improved understanding and advocacy of the mutual benefits to be...

Enhancing the science of improvement for patient safety – taking the next step with Human Factors in Healthcare

The Q community welcomed colleagues from Patient Safety and Human Factors & Ergonomics in a workshop presented by the Clinical Human Factors Group in collaboration with the Health Foundation.Nikki Davey (Q member, Charity Trustee and QI Coach, Quality Improvement...