Human Factors and Ergonomics at the London Nightingale Hospital
“On a winter’s morning in April 2020, we approached the London Excel centre transformed by the pandemic and the predicted first wave into the NHS Nightingale Hospital, London (NGL). For some of us it was the first time out since lockdown started to join a new...
The making of CHFG eLearning modules
The pandemic magnified human factors and ergonomics issues in healthcare As we grappled with new ways of working, unfamiliar roles and teams, working under intense pressure in newly configured workplaces and if that wasn’t a big enough challenge – the hindrance to...
Susanna Stanford Thought piece on the Ockenden Report
People with an interest in patient safety read the interim Ockenden report with despair. It was immediately and starkly apparent that it repeated many of the common themes which have emerged in other patient safety investigations. Further, as the report comments,...
Martin Bromiley – Lessons under pressure
“Not so long ago I finished 4 years of my life teaching aerobatics. If you ever wanted a time bound place to study humans under pressure this is probably one of the best places to be. And it wasn’t just the trainees under pressure! At the start of the COVID...