by admin | May 10, 2021 | CHFG Blog
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...
by admin | Dec 16, 2020 | CHFG Blog
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,...
by admin | Oct 23, 2020 | CHFG Blog
“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...
by admin | Sep 17, 2020 | CHFG Blog
“Feeling safe enough to express yourself in the workplace” – behaviours to support psychological safety In 2005 my late wife Elaine, mum to our two young children, died during an attempted operation. A skilled clinical team were overcome when an unexpected...
by admin | Sep 3, 2020 | CHFG Blog
NHS Supply Chain has welcomed the CHFG guide to introduce human factors into procurement. Jane Feinmann writes for the BMJ. There are increasing signs that the pandemic is forcing change—with the NHS taking human factors and ergonomics seriously. The Clinical Human...
by admin | May 18, 2020 | CHFG Blog
Blog by: Susie Crowe Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist – Clinical Director for Women’s Health Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust Background: The covid-19 pandemic has the potential to adversely affect the health of pregnant...
